EMAP today announced a 17% increase in pre-tax profits to £141.7 million, on the back of turnover up 1% to £772.6m, for the year ended 31 March 1998.Ad revenue across the group was reported to have risen 11% and EMAP said that it will be launching more new titles this year. Of its new women’s… Continue reading EMAP Sees Profits Rise 17%
The Evening Standard is set to publish a new homes and style magazine called ES Interiors.Associated Newspapers says that the title will be aimed at “the sophisticated, metropolitan reader” and claims that it will be the highest circulating publication of its kind on the market. For the latest ABC period (Nov 1997-Apr 1998), the Standard‘s… Continue reading Evening Standard To Launch ES Interiors
Sir Peter Gibbings, the chairman of the Radio Authority, has urged manufacturers to produce digital radio receivers at affordable prices for consumers.Writing in the Authority’s Annual Report for 1997 he says: “We urge European manufacturers in particular to seize the opportunity which this new technology offers to help our radio services to become world leaders.”Affordable… Continue reading Radio Authority Urges Affordable Digital Sets
Dennis Publishing has said that it will no longer be publishing the Ministry of Sound’s Ministry magazine. The title, described as a magazine “by clubbers for clubbers”, launched in December last year.Ministry says that it intends to continue publishing, either on its own or as part of a larger publishing house.Ministry Of Sound: 0171 378… Continue reading Dennis Splits With Ministry Mag
Sky today said that it still believes pay-per-view is the way forward for football TV coverage, despite the Premier League’s announcement that it would not be proceeding with the broadcaster’s PPV plans (see Premiership Votes Against PPV Proposals).Sky was allegedly proposing to move four matches per week from Saturdays to Sundays and charge viewers £10… Continue reading Sky Maintains PPV Ambitions
Premiership chairmen have today voted against TV coverage proposals from BSkyB which would have included the introduction of pay-per-view matches next season.More details will appear on Newsline as soon as they are available.Premier League: 0171 976 7886
Flextech’s teenager cable channel Trouble has forged a deal with teenage magazine publisher Attic Futura that will see cross endorsements and editorial ‘interweaving’.Attic Futura publishes the titles B, Sugar, Inside Soap and TV Hits. The deal, worth over £350,000, will see TV Hits sponsoring Trouble’s chart programme Blast! from June. Trouble has agreed to commit… Continue reading Flextech’s Trouble Links With Attic Futura
The National Magazine Company has set up a new unit to offer centralised promotions and sales across its 12-title portfolio. This portfolio includes Cosmopolitan and Zest.The department is to be called Central Sales and Promotions – The Solutions Network. Through The Solutions Network clients will have the opportunity to set up advertising, advertorials and promotions… Continue reading NatMags Creates Cross-Title Sales And Promotions Unit
The Mirror Group is launching a free newspaper dedicated to the Canary Wharf area of London.The Wharf will launch in September and will be distributed to more than 20,000 blue-chip workers employed in the Canary Wharf complex, including the staff of Morgan Stanley, BZW, Ogilvy & Mather and Credit Suisse.The title’s content will be focused… Continue reading Mirror Group To Launch The Wharf
As with last month, most of ITV’s audiences showed an increase in impacts year on year for April. The biggest increase was with Housewives/Children which increased 5.8%. Overall for ITV Adults impacts were up 1.6%. By contrast Channel 4 has lost impacts in all categories bar Men which was up 5.2%.CPTs for ITV were up… Continue reading TV Round-Up – April
