A new magazine aimed at what its editor describes as “the sophisticated black man” launches this week.Untold is a bi-monthly glossy which hopes for sales of around the 30,000 mark. It has been launched by editor Peter Akinti and has formed a partnership with Time Out magazine, which involves the London listings guide providing editorial… Continue reading Untold Launches This Week
The House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport today published a report which said that the BBC’s commercial and public service functions should be independently regulated whilst calling for a streamlining of content regulation. This would include the abolition of the Broadcasting Standards Commission.Following the release of The Multi-Media Revolution report, the… Continue reading House Of Commons Seeks New Regulation Rules
Southnews, publisher of 58 paid-for and free newspapers in London and the Home Counties, has announced record financial results for the year ended 28 March 1998.Pre-tax profits at Southnews rose 17% year on year to £7.4m while revenues rose 18% to £43.6m. It was also announced that the restructuring of the acquired United Southern titles… Continue reading Southnews Confident Of Successful Year
Chris Shaw, joint managing director of Universal McCann, praised the introduction of the Quality of Readership Survey and said that if its presence undermines the NRS then “so what?”Speaking at yesterday’s PPA Magazines ’98 conference Shaw went on to say that NRS was “hardly the most stable currency” and he had lost count of the… Continue reading QRS: If It Undermines NRS “So What?”
Capital Radio today dealt a blow to digital radio by saying that it will not be bidding to run the national commercial digital multiplex which is currently being advertised (see Radio Authority Advertises National Digital Licence).The company said that transmission costs are too high and, with limited consumer benefit and lack of receivers, it expects… Continue reading Capital Says No To National Digital Radio
The Racing Post has captured almost all of the Sporting Life ‘s sales, following the Life‘s temporary suspension of publication (see Sporting Life To Close), according to initial figures from the Mirror Group.A week after the Post was left as Britain’s solo racing paper, early circulation reports indicate that the “conversion rate” from Life to… Continue reading Racing Post Captures Sporting Life’s Sales, Mirror Claims
Publishers Myatt McFarlane have launched a new family title aimed at B, C1, C2 parents called Family Active.The national title went on sale on last week with an initial print run of 80,000 copies. It is priced £1.95 and is published monthly.Myatt McFarlane: 0161 928 3480
The recent success by the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) in persuading the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to relax its regulations on masthead programming was described by a television producer yesterday as possibly being a Pyrrhic victory.Peter Bazalgette was speaking at the PPA’s Magazines ’98 conference at which the television and magazine publishing industry examined the… Continue reading Masthead Programming: Breakthrough Or Pyrrhic Victory?
In conjunction with its World Cup promotions (see The Times To Offer World Cup Supplements), The Times has reduced its weekday cover price to 30p. It was previously 35p.This offer is to run throughout the World Cup and the price may or may not be increased after the competition is finished. A spokesperson for News… Continue reading Times Reduced To 30p For World Cup
Head of advertising at Channel 5, Polly Chochrane, has been poached by Channel 4 to fill its newly-created controller of marketing post. She will coordinate Channel 4’s digital services marketing, as well as on and off-air advertising and promotions.Cochrane has been with Channel 5 since its launch and previously worked at the Guardian Media Group.Channel… Continue reading C5’s Head Of Advertising Moves To C4
