Troubled newspaper, The Sunday Business may announce potential buyers later this week. A spokesman from the publication told MediaTel: “We are optimistic that a buyer could be named tomorrow following interests from various parties.”The Sunday Business met financial difficulties earlier this year *(Sunday Business In Financial Crisis) and faced restructuring, following a successful application for… Continue reading New Buyer For Sunday Business
Pearson will today release financial results and is expected to reveal the buyer of Westminster Press. Other financial results this week include Cordiant on Tuesday, Rank Organisation on Thursday and CIA Group on Friday.Features on Newsline this week include a TV Round-Up which will look at revenue, impacts, CPTs, viewing and industry news for June,… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The Radio Authority is next week (8 August) advertising a new Independent Local Radio licence to cover the town of Stornoway and surrounding parts of the Isle of Lewis, off the north-west coast of Scotland. The licence is being offered on the FM waveband and will reach around 15,000 adults. The closing date for applications… Continue reading Radio Authority Advertises New Licences
Newsquest Media this morning announced that it has bought Westminster Press from Pearson for £305 million.Westminster Press has a total circulation approaching 2.2 million and had a reported turnover of over £140 million in 1995. Its 60 titles will be added to the 120 already owned by Newsquest. The combined company will have a turnover… Continue reading Newsquest Buys Westminster Press For £305m
Pearson PLC revealed today its pre-tax results for the half year to June 30 1996. Although sales are up by 20%, figures are generally lower than last year with profit before tax reduced by almost a third. In reaction to the disappointing figures, the Board reflected on last year and noted that profits were earned… Continue reading Disappointing Results For Pearson
With all but 4 titles recording a drop in their year on year Jan-Jun ABCs, it would seem that there is a slump in the TV Listings/Entertainment sector. The biggest percentage fall came from Dennis Publishing’s Home Entertainment which fell by 16.23 or 3,595 copies. The biggest fall in copies came from EMAP’s Premiere magazine… Continue reading January To June ABCs – TV Listings & Entertainment
Eva, IPC’s woman’s weekly, saw a significant decrease with its circulation. The publication has recently developed a new look and price *(Eva Is Revamped) due to this change. Apart from a 45% decrease from last year for OK Weekly, there was very little change in the women’s weekly sector.All new ABC figures are available to… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Women’s Weekly Sector
The Jan-Jun ’96 ABC figures which were released this morning show that, within the angling sector, circulation performances were generally poor. Improve Your Course Fishing was the strongest performer with an increase of 1.8% (or 1,050 copies) to 58,585, whilst Stillwater Trout Angler and Trout Fisherman showed decreases in circulation of 12.8% and 6.7% respectively.… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Angling, Boating And Children’s Sectors
The younger end of the market, after the closure of DC Thompson & Co’s Catch this year, has had mixed results. EMAP’s More! is the only one of it’s younger titles to have an increase but It’s Bliss is doing well with its first ABC of 322,063. Looks has had a fall of just 2.08%… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Young Women’s/Teenage Sector
Future Publishing hold the largest share in the computer magazine sector with 46% of all circulations, although they publish the majority of computing magazines for all formats (i.e PC,Amiga, Sega, etc).In the PC sector there have been notable decreases particularly with PC Plus (28%). PC Pro is the only title with any significant increase (21%).Console/Games… Continue reading Jan-Jun ’96 ABC Figures: Computing Sector
