Dialog Corportion, the company formed from the merger of MAID and Knight-Ridder (see MAID Shareholders Approve Knight-Ridder Takeover), today announced turnover of £44.8 million for the first quarter of 1998, up from £6.7m the previous year. Pre-tax profits, however, grew more slowly, up from £2.3m to £2.5m.The company said that the integration of the MAID… Continue reading Dialog Sees Benefits Of Merger
Revenue Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV ad revenue figure for April at £234.830m, up 14.1%, reflecting a buoyant month for almost all of the terrestrial channels.ITV’s total revenue went up 13.8% to £165.570m, C4’s increased 14.1% to £50.790m and C5’s rose an impressive 29.3% to £12.5m. GMTV slipped 2.5% to £5.970m.Among the ITV… Continue reading TV Round-Up – April
Tina Gaudoin, editor of Wagadon Publishing’s first women’s title Frank, is to leave the magazine less than a year after it launched in September 1997 (see A Frank New Title For Women). She will continue to work on Frank until the August issue.Gaudoin says that she could not manage the editor’s post as well as… Continue reading Wagadon’s Frank To Lose Editor
7.81 million tuned in to watch the F.A. Cup Final on ITV, with 590,000 watching Sky’s coverage. One of the many big ‘TV sporting occasions’ where the need to refine the BARB method of registering ‘outside the home’ viewing is drawn to our attention once more. Most of the pubs (and indeed viewers in them)… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 17/05/98
Southern Newspapers has announced the appointment of a group editor and new editors for its two largest daily titles.Mike Woods will become group editor, Newspaper Division, on 29 June. He will become responsible for editorial concerns across 123 titles and will also be involved in the launch of new products. At the same time Ian… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Makes Senior Editorial Appointments
IPC Magazines has made two senior advertising appointments within its Country & Leisure Group.John Gaylard is promoted to ad manager of the equestrian titles while Richard de Smith will be replacing him as ad manager of the group’s shooting titles.Both Gaylard and de Smith begin their new jobs on June 10.IPC: 0171 261 5000
Following the departure of John Mulholland for Sporting Life (see New Editor For Sporting Life), The Guardian has promoted Kamal Ahmed to media editor for the newspaper. Ahmed moves from his current position as media correspondent.He will be responsible for editing the Media Guardian section and overseeing the media coverage in all areas of the… Continue reading The Guardian Appoints Media Editor
ITV has commissioned a new three-hour Saturday morning entertainment series called SMTV:LIVE, which will begin a 52-week run at the end of August.The new show, which will be presented by Ant & Dec, will comprise a mixture of studio-based entertainment, comedy and music as well as material from outside broadcasts.Commenting on the commission, ITV’s controller… Continue reading ITV To Launch New Saturday Morning Show
Trinity has said that it is no longer in merger negotiations with Mirror Group (see Mirror Shares Jump On Takeover Talk). Whilst the talks were only at an exploratory stage, it is believed that Trinity did not wish to compete with Axel Springer for control of the group.Mirror Group has said that it will make… Continue reading Trinity Pulls Out Of Mirror Talks
The ITC has published a consultation document on local television advertising rules which aims to allow the broadcast of programme-length ads.The ITC wants to use airtime currently allocated for teleshopping to broadcast the ads and the move would not increase the overall amount of commercial airtime available to these local TV services.The move is in… Continue reading ITC Consults On Programme-Length Ads
