Classic FM Magazine has added a top 50 album review section to its March issue. The reviews will cover early to modern music, baroque, romantic, opera and collections. This new format is intended to make it easy for classical music lovers of all tastes to select the right CD.The review section will be expanded further… Continue reading New Section For Classic FM Magazine
Looks Magazine recorded the biggest overall drop in this sector, losing 23.73% of its circulation year-on-year. At the other end of the scale, Period Living saw the greatest increase; adding 31,147 to its circulation year-on-year.IPC, who publish the majority of titles in this sector, has seen a circulation fall in 7 out of 10 of… Continue reading Jul-Dec ’96 ABC Figures: Women’s Monthly Sector
http://www.channel5.co.uk/home.htmlThe hype-machine around Channel 5 is pulling into top gear now. Its web-site has just launched. The site has been launched early to increase the excitement and suspense around the channel.According to the home page, Channel 5 will be giving us music, movies, sex, thrills, fast cars, love, movies, drama, fun and money. Whether it… Continue reading Web-Site Of The Week – Channel 5
The latest ABC figures for the period July to December 1996 show that Hello! has the highest circulation increase year-on-year, up 8.5%. The worst overall performer was OK! Weekly, suffering a decline of 41.7%. A bad performance was also recorded by Just 17, it showed a circulation decrease of 29.7% year-on-year; this may have been… Continue reading December ABC Figures – Womens Weeklies
The overall outlook for the music magazine sector is positive with only five titles showing a decrease in circulation. Amongst the losers IPC’s Melody Maker fared worst, with a 19.82% (11591 copies)loss on the same period last year. Another IPC title Vox suffered the second greatest decline, with a loss of 15.47% or 14623 copies… Continue reading July To December ABC’s – Music Sector
The Radio Authority has published its Quarterly Bulletin for the fourth quarter of 1996.During this period, the Authority received 80 programming complaints; 12 of these were upheld. 106 complaints about advertising and sponsorship issues were also made to the Authority in this time; 27 of these complaints were upheld.Sanctions were imposed on a number of… Continue reading Radio Authority Quarterly Bulletin
Trouble is the newly-launched cable channel catering exclusively for teenagers. It claims to provide eight hours of on-the-ball programming from mid-day to 8pm. Trouble will precede Bravo, which is also being revamped to target at a younger, male audience with weirder programmes.Trouble’s schedule is made up of soaps, like Heartbreak High and Saved By The… Continue reading Get Into Trouble
Media planners and buyers believe that the NRS’s new supplement readership data will allow them to negotiate lower rates for supplements because it will show much lower figures than for the parent newspaper – the benchmark by which supplement rates have been traded in the past. Sections of the industry therefore believe that the new… Continue reading NRS Sectional Figures Awaited With Interest By Planners
Reuters today announced financial results for the year ended 31 December 1996 which show pre-tax profits rising 17% to £701 million on the back of revenue up 8% to £2,914 million.The company blamed the low revenue growth on a background of continued banking industry consolidation and quiet foreign exchange markets. It also said that if… Continue reading Profits Grow 17% At Reuters
The gardening sector ABCs released today showed that the majority of gardening titles have had an increase in circulation, with only two titles having fallen. The Garden has had the biggest percentage change of 10.42% while BBC Gardeners World has had the biggest actual change having 293,041 copies to 267,165 copies for the same period… Continue reading July-December 1996 ABC Figures: Gardening, Photography &
Motoring Sectors
