Features on Newsline this week will include, a round-up of the national press January ABCs and a television round-up for 1996. The July to December consumer magazine ABCs are released on Friday and will be accompanied by Newsline items.The Daily Mail and General Trust’s AGM is being held on Wednesday at the Kensington Close Hotel… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Overall in 1996 ITV revenue was up 4.9% year on year from £1.578bn to £1.656bn while C4 did better with a growth of 10% to nearly £489m. This puts the revenue ratio for 1996 between ITV and C4 at 77:23.Total combined revenue for the year came in at £2.145bn, which is a year on year… Continue reading TV Round-Up – 1996
Two new bi-monthly IT magazines, Compuship and Move-IT will launch in the Spring.London-based TLA Publishing is the team behind the titles.Compuship will launch in March and is to cover mobile satellite communications, information technology and electronics for shipping. Move-IT will be on the news-stands in April and will do the same for land-mobile and remote… Continue reading New IT Titles
The Telegraph group has submitted a complaint to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, ABC, over the 10p Monday edition of the Times .The Telegraph claim that ABC should not classify the cut-price edition of The Times as a sale as there is no financial gain for the paper from the Monday editions. The news-vendors who… Continue reading Telegraph In Dispute With Times
The Independent is moving its Media section from a Tuesday to a Monday.The paper is expanding its media section into a stand-alone tabloid section on 17 February 1997. The Guardian ‘s media section is also published on a Monday and it recently relaunched as a stand-alone tabloid *Supplement Review – Media Guardian. The new Independent… Continue reading Media Independent To Go Head To Head With Media Guardian
The UK’s largest TV air-time sales house, TSMS, is launching a new media sales and marketing house aimed at the interactive market. The new division, TSMS Interactive or TSMSi, is hoping to help advertisers promote their interactive media. TSMSi will be concerned with the Internet, CD-Roms, interactive TV, company Intranets and kiosks. The new division… Continue reading TSMS Goes Interactive
The television sector was again the focus of market attention due to its plans, or lack of, for terrestrial digital TV.At the start of the week those broadcasters not involved in the consortiums again experienced large price drops: Scottish Television fell 81.5p to 546p, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees dropped 80p to 1,102.5p, HTV lost 30p and Ulster… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 07/02/97
The latest Rajar figures reveal that the BBC has extended its lead over commercial radio to 1.3%. The BBC obtained 49.6% of total audience share, compared with commercial radio’s 48.3%. BBC’s radio share is up more than 2% year-on-year.Radio 1’s reach was down to 10.7 million from 11.2 million in the previous quarter while Radio… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Figures – Summary
The new Wednesday evening Lottery draw on BBC1 was shown this week and unofficial overnights suggest it was watched by 10.8m viewers. The Saturday Lottery slot attracted 12.43 million on 25 January, though the first ever draw was watched by almost 22m.The latest Television data can be accessed by subscribers by clicking here.
Channel 5 may not have hit the air-waves yet, but it has just gone on-line. to find out what to expect of the new channel key in http://www.channel5.co.uk/home.html. A review is available on Newsline Web-Site Of The Week – Channel 5Another broadcaster who has decided to experiment with the web before taking to the air… Continue reading Web Round Up – W/E 14/2/97
