The Newspaper Society has announced that it will become more streamlined after a new constitution, new rules and a new president were approved at its AGM last week.Outgoing president Robin Burgess, to be replaced by Midland Independent Newspapers chief executive Chris Oakley, said that the changes were part of a strategic plan aimed at restructuring… Continue reading Overhaul At Newspaper Society
16.53 million viewers tuned into see if Courtney Mitchell had Grant’s muscles or Tony’s beer belly, this was enough to ensure that Eastenders took pole position in the top 30.Britain’s two favourite soaps dominated the top 10 once again this week, but Robson Green managed to breakthrough the soap monopoly, taking his show Touching Evil… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary – W/E 4/05/97
The City was not impressed by Capital’s move on Tuesday to buy Virgin Radio for £64.7m. The London radio group’s share price initially fell 6p to 539p and then dropped throughout the week to finish at 531.5p on Friday.BSkyB also had a busy week. On Wednesday it announced both an increase of 21% in profits… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 9/05/97
Newsline will be reporting from tonight’s Media Guardian event. Has Channel 5 Come Alive? is the subject under debate. David Elstein and Dawn Airey will be cross questioned by the industry. A full report will be on Newsline tomorrow morning.Cable and Wireless’s year end figures are due on Wednesday; this will include the results of… Continue reading The Week Ahead
MAGtrack, the media research company, has found that full colour ads are 19% more effective than mono ads. MAGtrack’s research found clearly identifiable patterns in the effectiveness of advertisements in relation to their size and placement within publications.60% of respondents recall seeing DPSs, compared to 45% for single pages. Full colour ads averaged a 47%… Continue reading Colour Outdoes Mono
Agency estimates put terrestrial TV revenue for March at £192.070m, which is an increase of 5.83% on the previous year. Of this, ITV brought in £148.070m and Channel 4 £44m. Impacts for March all showed year on year falls in impacts, with Housewives/Children dropping by 12.9% to 5,504. Women showed the next biggest fall with… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The Radio Authority is inviting comments from interested parties on the public interest considerations which apply in regards to First Oxfordshire Radio Company Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Mix 96 .First Oxfordshire Radio owns Fox FM which broadcasts in Oxford and Banbury. Mix 96, also broadcasts on FM, is currently owned by Bucks Broadcasting Ltd and… Continue reading Radio Mix Up
European digital television service providers will share an $11 billion market by 2002 according to a new report from strategic business analysts Datamonitor. This coincides with news of BSkyB’s joint digital venture with BT (see yesterday’s Newsline).The report suggests that there will be almost 20 million digital TV households in Europe by 2002, compared with… Continue reading Euro Digital TV Set To Become Billion Dollar Industry
