The Independent Television Commission has published a draft Code of Conduct on Electronic Programme Guides (EPGs) for public consultation.EPGs are the electronic menus which viewers will increasingly be calling up on their TV screens to select the television programmes they wish to watch. Of particular concern to the ITC is that the assembly and packaging… Continue reading ITC Launches Consultation On Programme Guides
MediaTel, the UK’s biggest media database, now almost entirely accessible via the Internet, launches its new Press Database service and a redesigned look to its complete web product this afternoon.The new Press Database offers users a number of improved features which allows access to information on press circulation and readership data quickly and easily. The… Continue reading MediaTel Launches New Database
Qualities The Times and Daily Telegraph were once again way ahead of the opposition amongst the daily quality titles. The News International title experienced a year-on-year sales increase in December of 14.78% to 740,709 copies while the Daily Telegraph increased its circulation by 9.2% to 1.132 million. The Guardian remained stable, registering only a slight… Continue reading National Press Round-Up – December
Future Publishing has just released its first film related title, Total Film Magazine. Total Film went on sale at a special introductory price of £1. Published monthly, the normal price will be £2.50.Matt Bielby, the Editor, sets the scene for the title in his opening note, “You’re holding up a magazine that’s right up your… Continue reading First Issue Review: Total Film Magazine
Most sectors had a quiet week though agencies AMV.BBDO and CIA both performed well, with AMV rising from 651p at the start of the week to 678.5p by Friday as a result of it winning Campaign‘s Agency of the Year Award. CIA was buoyed by a mention in Media Week‘s Agency of the Year list… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 10/1/97
The Guardiannewspaper was due to re-launch its media section today. This has been postponed until next Monday. The new media section will be an expanded stand alone supplement. The company say that today is too near to Christmas for a new launch.Film and TV Week, IPC’s new listings’ magazine, launches tomorrow. The title is to… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The Advertising Association has forecast that UK advertising expenditure will rise by 5% ,on constant prices, during 1997. The AA also predicts that ad expenditure for 1996 will reach £11.73bn.Job vacancies have reached their highest in 20 years and classified advertising should benefit accordingly. Print revenue should profit greatly from the classified advertising boom and… Continue reading Ad Expenditure On The Up
A glossy magazine for high flying Irish men and women living in Britain is in the publishing pipeline. Crack?, Irish slang for what’s going on?, is the name of the proposed title. But, the people behind the headline need to raise at least £350,000 to get the monthly magazine off the drawing board and into… Continue reading Its A Cracker
At the end of this month, Channel Four will reluctantly hand over a cheque for £88 million to the ITV companies. The payments are due under Channel 4’s funding formula. Channel 4 Television has to pay 50% of any excess it earns from advertising revenues over and above 14% of total qualifying revenue.The funding agreement… Continue reading ITV To Receive £88 Million From Channel 4
In a move to encourage new readers The Express newspaper is to cut the price of its Saturday edition to 20p for the second week in a row. The Express estimates that an extra 300,000 copies were sold last Saturday as a result of the price cut.The Daily Mail also reduced the price of its… Continue reading Express Cuts Prices
