Emap Metro, publisher of Empire and Premiere, is launching a new film magazine called Neon . The monthly title will have an introductory cost of £1 when it launches on Friday and will have a cover-price of £2.20 thereafter.Emap say that the title will recognise how film has become an “essential part of youth culture”… Continue reading Emap Launches New Film Mag
The men’s monthly magazine sector is now firmly established in the market with titles now reflecting various different target audiences, and most still showing good growth. Though one of the main problems faced by consumer magazines is fighting amongst themselves, it would appear that the men’s sector has now settled sufficiently to cope with this,… Continue reading Men’s Magazine Market Round-Up
The latest JNLR/MRBI Interim Report, which covers the six month period from April to September, shows that the Irish independent radio stations are continuing to increase their listenership.The survey shows that nationwide 54% of listeners tuned into the independent stations each weekday compared to 34% for RTE Radio 1 and 29% for 2FM. For the… Continue reading Independent Radio Stations Show Increased Listenership
Microsoft is believed to be in the process of planning an online television channel called OnStage which will broadcast over the Internet.Six channels will launch in America in December on Microsoft’s Internet service providing users with news, sports and entertainment programmes. The service is said to be as close to real television as current technology… Continue reading Microsoft To Launch Internet TV
Cable operator Telewest has today announced third quarter financial results which show that losses have doubled year-on-year from £29.4m to £59.1m. This is despite revenue increasing 127% to £73.1m.Telewest also said that its network was 61% complete and now had almost 700,000 residential customers, while churn amongst cable viewers declined from 46% to 39.5%. Commenting… Continue reading Losses Double For Telewest
Gilly Batterbee, editor of IPC Magazines’ Family Circle, is moving from the title this month to work on a new IPC project.Editor since 1991 Batterbee steered the magazine through a major relaunch earlier this year which helped the title hit an ABC of over 306,000, an increase of 7%.IPC refused to comment on what the… Continue reading IPC Editor Moves On To New Project
ITV announced plans today for its Winter ’97 schedule, with spending in the region of £210 million. Network Director Marcus Plantin outlined the aim for the coming season which we are promised is ITV’s strongest schedule.Mr Plantin spoke of his six point plan which he believes will keep ITV as “Britain’s favourite button”. More new… Continue reading ITV Announces Winter ’97 Schedule
Barb has said that it is definitely looking at new ways of measuring television viewing, especially for out-of-home special events.Bill Meredith told Newsline that the wide issue of measuring viewing in the increasingly fragmented TV market was being discussed and Barb was “very interested” in monitoring out-of-home viewing for events such as football and boxing… Continue reading Barb Considering Additional Survey
The television sector saw large increases last week in anticipation of the more relaxed cross-media ownership rules which became law on Friday (see Friday’s New Media Ownership Rules Become Law).Grampian TV saw a big rise on Monday, leaping 22p to a record high of 292p, on the back of speculation that STV would make a… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 1/11/96
The £35bn merger between BT and MCI at the weekend will place the UK telecommunications giant in close proximity to BSkyB, raising fears among UK watchdogs.The alliance will occur because MCI, the US telecoms operator, owns a 13.5% stake in Rupert Murdoch’s global media company News Corporation. Oftel however, the telecoms watchdog, only recently censured… Continue reading BT Merger Creates Murdoch Alliance
