Developments on the future of the BBC World Service will be announced this week in both the House of Lords and the Foreign Affairs committee. John Tusa, former World Service managing director, will appear before the committee on Tuesday and John Birt, BBC director general will appear on Thursday. Mr Tusa has been a critic… Continue reading The Week Ahead
http://www.asa.org.ukAt the launch of the Advertising Standards Authority’s website today, chairman Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank announced that the ASA will be providing a service to consumers and companies who use the Internet.When the Codes were expanded at the beginning of 1995 to include non-broadcast electronic media, advertisements on computer and video games, CD-ROM and… Continue reading Website Of The Week: ASA
According to Carat Research over 5 million more people saw Gareth Southgate miss the crucial Euro’96 penalty than official BARB figures indicate. BARB research claimed that a British audience of 26 million people, 18 million on BBC1 and 8 million on ITV, watched the game. This included 3 million viewers who taped the match and… Continue reading Carat Claim More Saw Southgate Miss
A spokesman from BSkyB today told MediaTel that no plans to broadcast Formula One in 1997 have been made and that BSkyB do not have the rights to show this event.In the week that saw BSkyB agreeing to help fund the Kirch Group’s launch of digital television in Germany, speculation had it that BSkyB would… Continue reading BSkyB’s Digital F1 Coverage Denied
The June national newspaper ABCs, released today, show the Daily Mail and the Mail On Sunday showing big losses in circulation compared to last month. The Daily Mail’s circulation dropped by over 51,000 copies (down 2.49%), while the Mail On Sunday saw an even bigger decrease of over 82,000 (down 3.87%).The Evening Standard recorded the… Continue reading June ABCs – Mail Papers Show Biggest Losses
A survey carried out by GVU, an American-based research centre, has found that the average age of Internet users in the UK and Ireland is 28 with 22% of users being women, up from 15% six months ago.The occupations of Internet users is biased towards education and computer areas, with professionals showing a drop in… Continue reading Web User Research Published
The Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) has just written to the eleven pilot community radio stations offering each of them a one year extension to their contract to take them up to the of 1997.The IRTC has expressed satisfaction at the performance of the stations which are approaching their first anniversary on-air. Each station… Continue reading IRTC Extends Pilot Radio Contracts
It has been rumoured that a new deal may be signed between the new daily sports publication, Sport First, and Sunday Business. The agreement, if undertaken, would result in the sharing of various resources including the advertising sales departments.Further deals are expected which involve the combined use of research departments and advertisement production and marketing.… Continue reading Sport First Denies Link With Sunday Business
CATV results produced significant differences to BARB’s cable and satellite data, the Cable Research Group announced this week. The survey was designed to provide an alternative measurement of non-terrestrial viewing, as BARB panels are believed to be too small to represent the number of cable subscribers.The survey was comprised of 2,061 households with a diary… Continue reading Cable Television Audience Research
Caledonian Media Communications, the Scottish cable company, has today released yearly financial results which show that its pre-tax losses have plummeted from £168,000 last year to £812,000. Most of this (£560,000) was due to the loss-making Coventry Cable which was sold in April to KPN Kabel, a Dutch telecommunications group. City analyst had forecast that… Continue reading Caledonian Media Losses Reach £812,000
