The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has upheld a complaint against a programme on Sky One called Bloody Foreigners. In its Programme Complaints and Interventions Report for April this year, a complainant pointed out that in one scene, the programme, which was about Germans, caught sexual intercourse taking place in the background of an interview.The programme… Continue reading Sky In Trouble With ITC For Foreign Sex Blunder
Following the departure of chief executive Mark Booth and non-executive director (former chief executive) Sam Chisholm from BSkyB, director of promotions and publicity Raymond Jaffe is also leaving the broadcasting group. Jaffe is to launch his own agency called the Promotions Factory. The first ABC//electronic audit for www.Timeout.com for the period 1 February to 3… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Felix Dennis, chairman of the business and consumer magazine company Dennis Publishing, has warned that the golden age of magazine publishing is over and that its already shaky foundations are crumbling fast in the face of the electronic age.Quoting Bob Dylan at the PPA Magazines ’99 conference yesterday, Dennis said that ‘it is a hard… Continue reading Dennis Publishing Chairman Sees Magazine Industry Crumbling In The Electronic Age
Total terrestrial revenue for April 1999 (including GMTV) according to agency estimates was £233.02 million. ITV’s total revenue dropped by 2.4% year on year, and Channel 4’s revenue remained fairly stable April 1999. Channel 5’s total revenue grew by 22.6% year on year.GMTV suffered a 9.5% drop in revenue.LWT increased its share of revenue the… Continue reading TV Revenue – April 1999
Speaking at yesterday’s PPA Magazines Conference ’99, Christine Miller from Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) stressed the increasing demand from advertisers for returns on their investments. With over 18,000 consumer magazines available in the USA, and about 6,000 new launches each year, Miller referred to the present climate as increasingly becoming an ‘age of accountability’.Miller… Continue reading ‘Advertisers Need More Proof Of Performance’ Say Panel At PPA
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) climbed an impressive 52˝p to 780p yesterday after reporting a 15% rise in turnover in its 6-monthly financial report (see Newsline). By 10am today, SRH had risen a further 25p to 805p.Johnston Press, which has agreed a takeover bid of £266 million for the newspaper group Portsmouth & Sunderland (PSN), remained… Continue reading Sharewatch
Total terrestrial revenue for April 1999 (including GMTV) according to agency estimates was £233.02 million. ITV’s total revenue was £161.5 million, a 2.4% drop since the same time last year. Channel 4’s revenue remained nearly stable at £50.77 million for April 1999 (April 1998: £50.79 million), and Channel 5’s total revenue grew by 22.6% year… Continue reading TV Revenue – April 1999
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB is supporting the Independent Television Commission’s (ITC) opposition to a digital television licence fee (see Newsline).Sky, which runs the satellite DTV service Sky Digital, has warmly welcomed the ITC’s submission which strongly opposed the idea of an additional digital licence fee, arguing that it would slow the transition to digital, and would… Continue reading BSkyB Supports ITC Opposition To Digital Licence Fee
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) today reported the acquisition of a third outdoor advertising group as well as a 15% rise in turnover to £24.5 million in its financial results for the 6 months ended 31 March 1999. Pre-tax profit was up by 35% to £7.2 million, and earnings per share were up by 41% to… Continue reading Third Outdoor Acquisition Enhances Scottish Radio Portfolio
Keith Wilson, the editor-to-be of the unlaunched Crime Weekly magazine has been made redundant by Cabal Communications. The consumer publisher suspended the launch of the magazine earlier this year, at the same time that IPC annnounced that it was publishing a crime one-off title called called Chat, Crime and Passion (see Newsline). The future of… Continue reading Cabal’s Crime Launch Uncertain As Editor Departs
