Revenue 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 (up 10.05%) and Channel 4 £44m (up 11.39%). This puts the ITV:C4 ratio at 77:23. GMTV’s revenue was put at £6.4m, up 6.3%, and total cable/satellite reached £17m.Among… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The board of Cordiant has announced the appointment of Kevin Roberts as chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide.Roberts, 47, will take over from Ed Wax on 21 May. Mr Wax will relinquish his position as chief executive but will remain as chairman until the end of the year. From January 1998 he will… Continue reading New Chief Executive For Saatchi
Michael Jackson, the controller of BBC1, has been appointed as chief executive of Channel 4. The 39-year old will replace Michael Grade on June 1. Jackson had been at BBC1 for 10 years.Channel 4: 0171 396 4444
Gordon Brown, the new Chancellor, today raised interest rates by 0.25% to 6.25%.
Tube travellers will be the first to see Carlton Food Network’s latest advertising campaign. From next week, selected train carriages will carry adverts for the food channel. This will be followed by a campaign in the women’s press.…Carlton Food Network has been nominated for three awards in the Broadcast Design Association’s competition. The winners of… Continue reading Carlton Goes To The Tube
Daily Quality Market Among the quality titles, The Telegraph has managed to maintain its position at the top of the league. It has increased its sales to 1,136,857, but it has seen a slight drop in sales month-on-month losing 2,926 sales in this period. The Times has suffered a massive drop month-on-month losing 27,791 in… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – April
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Jane Ennis has been appointed editor of Now magazine. She was previously editor of Here! which was bought by IPC from G&J last week.The last issue of Here! goes on sale next Tuesday, May 6, bagged with a sample copy of Now. After this, Here! will be incorporated into the IPC title. Ennis takes over… Continue reading New Editors At IPC Titles
Saturday 20th April saw the return of New Baywatch with a new series, after the show was dropped from the ITV schedule and replaced with Sabrina the Teenage Witch last year. Advertisers in the first ad break included Adidas, Pepsi, Domestos and Everest, while the second break featured, among others, Orange Tango, the Mail on… Continue reading Programme Analysis: New Baywatch W/E 20/4/97
Channel 5 will be launching a major advertising campaign this weekend urging people to tune in their TV sets for England’s next World Cup qualifying clash with Poland on May 31.The campaign begins with commercials on nearly 40 radio stations nationwide which explain that videos do not need to be retuned to pick up an… Continue reading C5 Launches Campaign To Promote England Game
The Radio Authority has confirmed the timetable for digital commercial radio, which is set to bring a new generation of commercial radio services on-air by 1999. The RA has also said that it will be providing £100,000 toward the funding of further technical field-trials of the new digital technology, which will provide room for more… Continue reading RA Publishes Timetable For Digital Radio
