IPC Magazines has this week reported a 10.7% loss in operating profits to £29.3 million for the six months ended March 1999. The publisher’s interim results also show that revenues increased by 5.7% to £175.2 million across this period. Circulation revenues were up by 3.7%, and ad revenues rose by just 0.1%.IPC Magazines recently renamed… Continue reading IPC Magazines Profits Down By 10.7%
Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, which this week announced a 55% increase in pre-tax profit, remained stable yesterday. Ad revenue for the group was up by 8.7%, and operating profit from local publishing, including contract publishing, rose by 41% to £12.8 million.EMAP, which announced yesterday that it is to overhaul its weekly entertainment title Heat in… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has this afternoon condemned the Sun‘s decision to publish a topless picture of Sophie Rhys Jones, fiancée to Prince Edward, as a “grave error” by the paper’s editor David Yelland. The ten year old picture was published in last Wednesday’s Sun and within hours Buckingham Palace had issued a formal… Continue reading Press Watchdog Slams Sun’s Rhys Jones Picture As Reprehensible
BSkyB has unveiled the details of the ‘multi-million’ advertising campaign with which it will reveal its new brand identity. Under the strapline ‘See the world your way’, Sky’s new brand values seek to draw together the company’s interests in not only television, but also interactive and multimedia services.The new look was created by branding agency… Continue reading Sky Unveils New Identity And Promotional Campaign
front, the men’s magazine launched by Cabal Communications in October last year (see Newsline), is to undergo a redesign and an increase in price. The July issue will be the first to feature the new look, which will include an increase in size to wide A4 format. The magazine, which is aimed at 18-24 year… Continue reading Cabal Fronts Up With A New Look
EMAP rose by 2p to 1,307p yesterday after it announced a 16% increase in operating profit (see Newsline) as well as reporting a downturn in revenue growth. Its recently launched weekly title Heat is understood to be selling below its target circulation of 100,000, at around 60,000.Both of ONdigital’s owners, Granada and Carlton Communications, enjoyed… Continue reading Sharewatch
Digital media agency Syzygy has launched Digital Fast Track, a new service dedicated to providing clients with a fast-response internet business solution.The new division, headed by Andrew Lowe, previously head of multimedia at Oasis TV, is intended to provide deadline-driven business solutions including promotional micro-sites that support above the line campaigns or product launches, business… Continue reading Syzygy Launches Net-Dedicated Business Solutions Division
EMAP is to make broad editorial changes to its new weekly listings and entertainment magazine, Heat after the title failed to meet its target circulation of 100,000. Announcing the media company’s annual financial results yesterday, EMAP chief executive Kevin Hand, admitted that the magazine is only selling around 60,000 copies per issue (see EMAP’s Consumer… Continue reading EMAP’s Heat Given Overhaul After Poor Sales
The readership figures for the national newspapers in April 1999 show that the majority of title’s have continued their decline in readership, compared to the same period last year. Nearly all of the Sundays suffered losses in readership, with the exception of the Mail On Sunday .The Daily Mail and the Financial Times both enjoyed… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – April 1999
Two of the BBC’s popular dramas have been put under the spotlight in the latest report from the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC). Eastenders provoked 12 complaints when viewers were disturbed about the portrayal of violence in the the killing of Saskia and the subsequent disposal of her body.In its defence, the BBC argued that Eastenders… Continue reading Violence On BBC Provokes Complaints
