Belfast-based title, The Sunday News, has been closed due to a shortage of funds according to Century Newspapers. The ABC July-December figure for the paper stood at 19,558, a fall of almost 80,000 since its circulation peak.Sunday News: 0232 244441
The Sunday Times is claiming a 76% sales increase in the Republic of Ireland for the past couple of weeks, as well as a rise of 23% in Northern Ireland, going from 60,000 to 93,000. Andrew Neil is accrediting the increase to recent attempts by the paper to increase its Irish coverage.Meanwhile, reports in yesterday’s… Continue reading Sunday Times Gets Overall High
It is seen as highly unlikely that the takeover of ITN by a Carlton Communications-led consortium will be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, according to reports. This means that the takeover will likely be finalised this week, although neither ITN nor Carlton is willing to comment on the situation.The case has already been… Continue reading Carlton/ITN Deal Draws To Close
Belfast-based title, The Sunday News, has been closed due to a shortage of funds according to Century Newspapers. The ABC July-December figure for the paper stood at 19,558, a fall of almost 80,000 since its circulation peak.Sunday News: 0232 244441
The Sunday Times is claiming a 76% sales increase in the Republic of Ireland for the past couple of weeks, as well as a rise of 23% in Northern Ireland, going from 60,000 to 93,000. Andrew Neil is accrediting the increase to recent attempts by the paper to increase its Irish coverage.Meanwhile, reports in yesterday’s… Continue reading Sunday Times Gets Overall High
Pre-tax losses for the HTV Group for the year ending December 31 1992 are as follows:Pre-tax Loss: £5.83m (+£0.44m)Loss per share: 2.7p (-0.5p)Turnover: £133.03m (£171.7m)Final dividend: 0pTotal dividend: 0p (3.75p)Extraordinary Debit: £17.55m (£21.82m)Operating Profit (TV only): £6.08m
Sky Sports, Sky One and Sky News may screen three Premier League games simultaneously on May 9 if the current championship race goes to the last week. The League has agreed the transmission arrangements but BSkyB has yet to finalise a kick-off time for the matches.The triple bill would include Middlesbrough v Norwich, QPR v… Continue reading Sky Splits League Final In Three
MTV Europe has struck up a deal with Omegaland Racing to be title sponsor of a Formula 3000 racing team, due to take part in nine races throughout five different European countries. The contract will enable MTV to display its ‘racing’ logo in a prominent position on the two cars entered and on the team-wear.
The BBC and US television venture, ABC, have struck up a partnership which will enable them to create one of the largest international news gathering services in the world. The two companies plan to exchange news coverage and to share broadcasting facilities, while also making ABC news available to BBC World Service Television. The partnership… Continue reading BBC & ABC In Joint News Venture
According to estimates for February, Total ITV net revenue has come in at £123,896,000. The figure represents a continuation of the recent downward trend, falling 2.8% on last month, but is an increase of 3.8% on the same period last year. ITV’s share accounts for £103,521,000 of the total, leaving Channel 4 with a revenue… Continue reading TV Round-Up – February
