Media research company MAGtrack has poached Julia Setterfield, Press Gazette‘s ad manager. She has worked on the trade title for the past three years.Setterfield will join MAGtrack today with the brief of spearheading the sales of the new “NETtest” product which evaluates visitors to Websites.MAGtrack: 0171 437 4337
Sky has released details of which Premiership football matches they will be showing in the first half of the 1997-98 season, Sky say that each Premier league team will be featured at least twice before Christmas 1997. Big matches coming up include; Liverpool versus Newcastle on 31 August, Arsenal versus Man United on 9 November… Continue reading Sky Premiership Match Details
David Foreman has joined Katz Radio Sales as managing director. He was previously sales director at Scottish Independent Radio Sales.…Carolyn McCall, ad director at the Guardian and Observer , has been appointed to the newly created role of commercial director at the newspaper group.…Laura James has been appointed to the newly created role of head… Continue reading Appointment News
Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has said that cricket Test matches should be removed from the list of “protected” sports events and the board allowed to negotiate its own broadcast deals unless more funding is received from the Government.His comments come after it was announced that £100m of… Continue reading Cricket Fights For TV Money
BSkyB’s shares fell 11p to 470p on Thursday ahead of the company’s financial results which were announced on Friday. Despite a 22% increase in profits, there appeared to be a general consensus in the market that the figures were disappointing: the broadcaster’s shares slipped 33 to 437p. There is also the fear that future competition,… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 15/8/97
Mirror Group is rumoured to be in discussions with Cable & Wireless Communications regarding the setting up of a cable TV advertising sales house. This has been sparked off by last week’s news that Mirror Group would be taking control of Telewest’s Adnet sales house (subscribers see Telewest Ad Division Goes To Mirror Group) and… Continue reading Mirror Group In Talks With CWC
Non-terrestrial television households are set to grow by 1.1 million to 6.8 million by the end of 1997, according to a new survey from Mintel. By the end of 1996 dish sales/rentals had reached 3.8 million and looks set to exceed 4 million by the end of this year. However, cable connections last year exceeded… Continue reading Good Growth Predicted For Cable/Satellite
Agency estimates put the total terrestrial TV revenue for July at £160.320m. Of this, ITV brought in £116.25m (down 2.4% year on year), Channel 4 £36m (down 0.9%) and C5 £8.07m (down 16% on last month). GMTV’s June revenue fell 6.4% to £5.71m.LWT put in the strongest performance among the ITV areas, with a year… Continue reading TV Revenue – July
The Word’s advertisement revenue for the first six months of 1997 has reached almost £3 million, up 35% on last year. Campaigns for Rover, Kingfisher and Halifax helped the company achieve this figure.These campaigns have been running throughout the Word’s regional daily press membership which includes the Oxford Mail, Wolverhampton Express & Star and the… Continue reading Record Results For The Word
BBC1 is believed to be considering a new look to its Saturday evening schedule, with Match of the Day being moved to an earlier slot with a repeat showing later on.Sources suggest that the Corporation is looking at moving the show to a slot either just before or just after the National Lottery. A repeat… Continue reading New Slot For Match Of The Day
