Coronation Street is again top of the pops this week, with Wednesday’s episode attracting a commendable 14.91 million; Monday’s episode came in second at 14.76 million. Eastenders’ storylines pulled in a disappointing number of punters in comparison to The Street this week. The best it could do was 13.86 million on Monday. While, down on… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 15/06/97
In the dispute between CableTel UK Ltd and L!VE TV, the High Court has ruled that CableTel had technically met its carriage operation contract with the TV company.The cable channel had been excluded from the First Choice package recently launched by CableTel; L!VE challenged the legality of this. In May, a court order ruled that… Continue reading L!VE Cable Dispute
Dedicated radio services licensed by the Radio Authority, will be covering a number of major sporting and music events this Summer.For the first time Royal Ascot Day Radio took to the airwaves on 17-21 June and Special Olympics FM is also broadcasting for the first time for three weeks leading up to the National Summer… Continue reading Dedicated Radio Services To Launch This Summer
Revenue The combined terrestrial TV revenue for May, according to agency estimates, came in at £193.31 million which is a drop of 3.83% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue fell 5.7% year on year to £148.81m while Channel 4’s rose 2.2% to £46.5m. The ratio between ITV and C4 revenue for May was 76:24. It is also estimated… Continue reading TV Round-Up – May
Ford will be sponsoring the ITV broadcast of the 1997 Royal Tournament. The car manufacturer has sponsored the show in part for the last five years and the new full sponsorship deal was negotiated by Sally Blackburn at Laser and James Papworth at the Network on behalf of Ford.As well as sponsoring the opening, Ford… Continue reading Ford To Sponsor Royal Tournament
Capital Radio London has announced the results of a youth research study which examines the unique role that radio plays in young Londoners’ lives. The research has received full IPA approval.Media in general and radio in particular were found to fulfill different needs for young people as they pass through puberty. During pre-puberty media tends… Continue reading Radio Tunes Into Youth
Chris Rayner of BMP DDB Needham spoke yesterday at the Daily Telegraph Internet 97 Conference about the problems facing new web sites.Many companies have jumped on the New Media bandwagon, spent a great deal of time and money developing exciting and interesting web sites and then waited for a flood of visitors. A large number… Continue reading Promote or Die
Capital Radio London has negotiated a deal with LWT; the TV company is to make a Friday-night TV show, Live From The Capital Café (subscribers see Laser Joins Capital Radio For TV Show). The show will be co-presented by Dani Behr and Jason Bradbury from the Capital Radio Café and will run for four consecutive… Continue reading Capital Gets Itself Seen On TV
Channel 5 has decided to appoint a controller of sport due to its growing ambition to acquire rights to more sporting events.Robert Charles, formerly controller of sport at Yorkshire Television, takes on the newly created role. Sporting output was previously handled by Nick Wilson, who was also in charge of children’s programming. He will now… Continue reading 5 Strengthens Commitment To Sport
Granada will buy Yorkshire Tyne-Tees Television for £711m it was announced this morning. This puts a value of £11.75 on each YTTV share.For the implications of the Granada/YTTV merger, subscribers should click Granada Confirms YTTV Interest.Granada: 0161 832 7211
