IPC’s Specialist Group is launching a monthly gardening magazine at the end of this month to cater for Britain’s growing number of enthusiastic gardeners.Your Garden is aimed at amateurs who want to improve their skills and knowledge and who need practical advice on garden maintenance. The full- colour magazine will be cover-dated May but will… Continue reading IPC To Launch Your Garden
The Association of Independent Radio Companies announced last night that Pepsi is to take over as sponsor of the Network Chart Show, replacing Nescafe which signed its initial deal with the show 8 years ago. Pepsi’s contract will be worth more than £1m a year backing up the show with an extensive programme of special… Continue reading Pepsi To Sponsor Network Chart Show
Independent Radio’s gross advertising revenue increased last year according to the latest figures released by the AIRC. Figures are now available for the second and third quarters of 1992, although the final quarter is still outstanding. Revenue Year-on-Year % Change Apr-Jun £33.9m 4.60% Jul-Sep £33.1m 1.80% Since last October LBC has not supplied revenue figures,… Continue reading Radio Revenue 2nd & 3rd Quarters 1992
IPC’s Specialist Group is launching a monthly gardening magazine at the end of this month to cater for Britain’s growing number of enthusiastic gardeners.Your Garden is aimed at amateurs who want to improve their skills and knowledge and who need practical advice on garden maintenance. The full- colour magazine will be cover-dated May but will… Continue reading IPC To Launch Your Garden
The six local radio licences for London are being re-advertised by the Radio Authority this week, including those held by LBC, Jazz FM and Melody Radio.
According to a report in today’s Evening Standard chief executive of Mirror Group Newspapers, David Montgomery is making definite plans to set up a satellite news channel for London as a rival to Sky News. If plans reach fruition the channel will be in direct competition with London News Network although the latter has an… Continue reading Montgomery To Launch News Channel
Saturday saw the extension of the Telegraph’s weekend business section with the addition of Money-Go-Round, which is as the concept suggests an expanded summary of business, financial and economic items and events for the business reader.Money -Go-Round comprises 13 pages and is a section within a section, being a pull-out from the full business supplement.… Continue reading Money-Go-Round Launches In Telegraph
Director General of the BBC, John Birt, has now decided to join the Corporation as a member of staff after it emerged at the weekend that he had been avoiding tax on over half of his salary by being paid as a freelance consultant.Head of Youth programmes, Janet Street Porter, has a similar financial arrangement… Continue reading Birt Goes On Pay Roll At BBC
ITV today launched its Spring/Summer TV schedule which begins transmission on 3rd May.The new schedule shows drama every night of the week; ranging from new series such as Peak Practice, starring Kevin Whately as a doctor joining a practice in the Peak District and Body and Soul about a nun forced to leave the convent… Continue reading ITV Spring/Summer Schedule
Overnight figures for the first episode of BBC1’s A Year in Provence stood at 13.5m, one million viewers more than Darling Buds of May on ITV. Maker of Darling Buds, Yorkshire Television is blaming the fall in ratings on the “curiosity factor” of the new series and expects things to return to normal next Sunday.
