Gruner & Jahr are planning to launch a new home-interest that will compete directly with Ideal Home and House Beautiful, titled Prima Home. Prima Home will be a perfect bound glossy, have an initial print run of around 250,000 and have 140 to 150 pages with 40 said to be given over to advertising.The first… Continue reading G & J To Launch New Home Interest Title
Scottish Radio Holdings this morning announced final financial figures which show that pre-tax profits have risen 37% to £7 million, while turnover has increased 66% to £28m. SRH’s local newspapers contributed £1.5m to the group’s profits. Like for like ad revenue in the first two months of the new financial year also increased, rising 6%… Continue reading Scot Radio Profits Up 37%
National Heritage Secretary Virginia Bottomley has announced the appointments of David Boulton, Strachan Heppel CB and Susan Lloyd to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. Their appointments will be for three years and they will become members of the new Broadcasting Standards Commission when the merger of the BCC and the Broadcasting Standards Council takes place on… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
The Mail On Sunday has put up its cover-price by 10p to 85p. The paper’s latest ABC, for October, showed that the title had a circulation of 2.168m, an increase of 6.62% year on year.Associated Newspapers: 0171 938 6000
Takeover speculation again caused fluctuations in the TV market last week though for once the action materialised, with Carlton taking over Westcountry and United News and Media increasing is stake in HTV to just short of 30% late on Friday.Carlton’s price rose 4.5 to 513p last Monday on news of its acquisition while United, whom… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 29/11/96
Scottish Radio announces its full year results on Tuesday, while Border announces interim results. Carlton Communication publishes its full year profits on Wednesday.A new magazine-styled newspaper called The Latest launches on Wednesday. There will be TV and Web round ups appearing on Newsline later in the week. A review of Carlton’s new website will also… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The Managing Director of Melody Radio, Sheila Porrit, today denied weekend press reports that the station had been put up for sale. Sheila told MediaTel that the story that appeared in the Mail On Sunday was ‘a total fabrication’ and the company was not for sale.Melody Radio: 0171 584 0400
After 2 years of examination a working party comprising representatives from the Advertising Film and Video Producers Association (AFVPA), the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) have produced a new handbook setting out the best practice for the cost effective production of commercials, which replaces the 1987… Continue reading Producing Advertising Commercials – New Handbook
The ITC has announced that it is to investigate the practice of premium channel bundling in the Pay-TV market. A specific complaint has been made against the Disney Channel and its terms of supply will be looked at within the investigation.Under Section 2(2) (a) (ii) of the Broadcasting Act 1990, the ITC has a duty… Continue reading ITC Announces Investigation Into Premium Channel Bundling
United News & Media has increased its 19.9% stake in HTV to just under 30% in a move which will increase United’s share of total UK viewing to 5.5% and of ITV viewing to 18%.United paid £36.7m for the 8.7m HTV shares and the deal is seen by many as a defensive move to block… Continue reading United Raises Stake In HTV
