Flextech, the cable and satellite programming group, has announced interim results which show pre-tax losses increasing to £7.8 million compared to a loss of £7.6m last year. Turnover increased by 63% to £24.8 million and subscription revenue rose by 47% to £13.4m. Ad revenue also showed good growth – increasing from £1.5m to £2.4m.Most of… Continue reading Flextech Losses Deepen
Euro’96 not only produced large viewing figures but also revitalised football in the UK. The release of Football Mania (The Daily Mirror) was supposed to be a closely guarded secret but somehow The Sun found out and released Football Football on the same day. The Times also published a supplement this week on Monday entitled… Continue reading Football Magazines And The Opposition
As the main attractions of the Olympics (the Men’s and Women’s 100 metre finals) were last week, this week sees a return to the normal pattern of soap operas dominating the top thirty programme list. Monday’s edition of Coronation Street was the top rated programme with 14.64 million viewers and a consolidated share of audience… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 04/08/96
International News & Media, the West Midlands publisher, has confirmed details of a new national newspaper it plans to launch later this year.Today’s News will be a 36-page daily tabloid covering general news. International told MediaTel that the title will cost 30p and have an initial print-run of 300,000, with an expected circulation of 200,000.… Continue reading New National Paper Planned
Match Of The Day Front Cover A new Premiership season means another season of Match of the Day on Saturday night. To coincide with the new series BBC Magazines have today launched Match of the Day magazinein an attempt to offer football fans the more intense goings on in football. The weekly magazine is priced… Continue reading Reviews: Match Of The Day, Sported!
The BBC will launch its new daytime schedule on Monday 2nd September. Alan Yentob unveiled a package which includes programmes reflecting leisure, lifestyle and consumer interests, topical issues and entertainment.Programmes include Breakfast News Extra with Juliet Morris; The Terrace, a DIY show presented by Mike Reid; cookery with Nick Nairn in Who’ll Do The Pudding;… Continue reading BBC Unveils New Daytime Schedule
Talk Radio has signed a six figure sponsorship deal with One 2 One, Mercury’s mobile phone division. The deal will feature in the football slot Mobile Phone Fans, part of There’s Only One Gary Newbon, which starts at the beginning of the football season (August 17).Talk Radio are looking to build on the success of… Continue reading Talk Radio Kicks Off With Sponsorship Deal
The 1996 European Television Symposium, to be held in November in Prague, will focus on the development of commercial broadcasting in Central Europe and the difficulties facing the sector in Western Europe.In particular the problem of developing ‘people meters’ which will effectively measure an ever more fragmented television audience will be discussed. The symposium will… Continue reading Symposium To Tackle TV ‘Crisis’
The Guardian will be introducing two new sections to its Saturday edition. The Week is a new current affairs section providing a review of the week with features, comment and background information on the week’s big stories. Jobs & Money will provide coverage of the converging issues relating to the workplace and jobs, personal finance… Continue reading New Sections For Saturday Guardian
