All television ratecards for 1996 are now finally published, and they show that Contractors have made very few changes to ratecard rates for 1996. The indexed spot lengths, where 30 seconds equal 100, show many similarities to 1995.* Laser sales 10″ rate for its stations has a slightly higher index than others at 60.* All… Continue reading 1996 TV Ratecards – Indexed Spot Lengths (30″=100)
It has now been confirmed that Greenwich will host the Millennium exhibition in the year 2000.Greenwich beat Birmingham in the competition to host the celebration because it offers the greatest potential to meet the Millennium Commission’s aspirations. It will also regenerate an important part of south London and will allow a more exciting presentation of… Continue reading Greenwich Is Chosen As Millennium Site
In its February Complaints Bulletin the Broadcasting Standards Council upheld in part two complaints about an item on Chris Evans’s BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show. One listener was offended by an item about a sex aid and erections, the second by a joke about oral sex. The BBC argued that the innuendo would only have… Continue reading Chris Evans Reprimanded
The latest July to December ABCs to be released include: TITLE Jul-Dec’94 Jul-Dec’95 %Ch Actual Ch Hair Flair 53,454 62,930 17.72 9,476 Times Educational Supplement 111,887 117,050 4.61 5,163 Candis 476,400 477,545 0.24 1,145 BBC Good Food 438,715 425,098 -3.1 -13,617 The Gardener 34,280 31,776 -7.3 -2,504 These titles have switched their reporting periods from… Continue reading Latest Jul-Dec ABCs
Islington is to get a new weekly newspaper from this Friday, 1 March. Ham & High is launching the Highbury and Islington Express, a paid-for title to cover the borough of Islington. Each issue, with a 40p cover price, will have over 100 pages and will cover comprehensive local news, arts, sports, business and entertainment.Ham… Continue reading New Title For Islington
BBC1’s Sunday edition of Match Of The Day featuring the FA Cup match between Manchester United and their local rivals Manchester City has attracted an audience of 10.85 million viewers and a consolidated share of viewing of 56%. This is 0.9 million more viewers than the only other football match to feature in the top… Continue reading United vs City Derby Attracts 11 Million
Channel 5 Broadcasting is now beginning to form its advertising sales team with the appointment of four senior UK Gold/Living sales staff.Paul Curtis is to become deputy sales director; Nick Milligan will take on the role of sales director; David Harrison will become business development and research director; and Mark White is to be sales… Continue reading Channel 5 Sales Appointments
IPC Magazines has closed Superclassics, the upmarket quarterly devoted to classic cars. The closure of the magazine, which lasted just four issues, is blamed on rising paper costs.Stonehart Publishing has sold men’s health magazine XL to Affinity, the publisher of over-50s magazine Goldlife. The last issue published by Stonehart comes out this week. The title’s… Continue reading Magazine Changes: Superclassics, XL And New Statesman
According to unofficial ‘live’ overnight data ITV is claiming that it has achieved its highest Tuesday night performance so far this year.Emmerdale (11.5m viewers), an hour-long special edition of The Bill (12.6m) and the return of Peak Practice (12.1m) all achieved over 50% of the available audience in their slots.Overall, ITV gained 45.3% of the… Continue reading ITV Claims Highest Tuesday Viewing This Year
The cable industry has come together to launch an advertising campaign worth £12 million. The campaign, which begins on 25 March, is designed to increase cable penetration rates which remain stuck at 20%. It will run on terrestrial television and other media for a year.The campaign is joint-funded by major cable operators including Cabletel, TeleWest,… Continue reading Cable Operators Fund £12 Million Ad Campaign
