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Hamfield Publications have appointed WCRS (071-242 2800) to handle the £4m launch of TV Plus.

Lloyds Bank is to be the overall sponsor of BBC’s Young Musician of the Year competition. Lloyds only got credited on the Master Class series this year, but from 1991 Lloyds will be widely recognised as the sponsor of the whole competition. The BBC maintains that no sponsorship money will go towards production costs.

Granada Television (071 734 8080) has issued a new rate card, effective from 1 January 1991. There are very few changes on the new rate card, with all rates remaining the same. Cancellation penalties have been increased and Annual Volume Discounts have been introduced: Volume Discount: Discount £4,500,000 2.5% £7,300,000 5.0% £10,000,000 7.5% £13,500,000 10.0%

Ulster Television (071 486 5211) has decided to drop AGB’s Television Consumer Audit in favour of a new up- graded system devised by Nielsen. Ulster is to inject £500,000 into the Nielsen Homescan panel, which it hopes will provide an accurate assessment of the use of consumer products in Ulster viewers’ homes.

Allied-Lyons has centralised all of its TV, press and radio buying, worth £45m, through Zenith Media. The move creates one of the UK’s largest centralised media buying accounts and comes in the same week that Saatchis is expected to announce a net loss in profits when preliminary results are released tomorrow. Allied-Lyons is also centralising… Continue reading Allied-Lyons Centralises Media

The Irish Times has announced a profit of £IR3.6m for its trading year 1989. The increase is mainly attributed to a large increase in property and appointment advertising.Hot Press, Ireland’s long established music publication with a circulation of 19,000, has appointed Newspaper Representations (071-831 8864) to handle UK advertising sales.Nni Advertising PrizeThe National Newspapers of… Continue reading Irish Times Profits

Young and Rubicam are looking to make around a dozen redundancies from their main agency. No more details are available at present. Meanwhile KHBB has made four people redundant in its creative department. A further 9 people have resigned from WCRS following the restructure that left 20 people redundant last week.

Chiltern Radio has announced profits of £1.3m for the year to September 30, this represents an increase of 35% on the previous year. The Chiltern network, which covers the Northern Home Counties area, intends to expand by applying for some of the 30 new stations the Radio Authority will advertise next year.

The international publishing company, the Quatro Group, is to close its magazine publishing section. The Group has been hit by the advertising slump and has put its four British and three Australian titles up for sale. The British magazines are Computer Business Week, Communications Engineering International, Construction Industry International and International Mining. If no buyers… Continue reading Quatro Magazines Up For Sale

TVMM (071 486 4311) has issued a new rate card for HTV, effective from 1 January 1991. The ITV rate card has increases of 18% for top peak fixed rates and falls of 21% and 6% for early and late peak fixed rates respectively. ITV Peaktime Support Spots and Guaranteed Homes Rating Packages have been… Continue reading New HTV Rate Card