John Brown Publishing has released ABCs for July to December for Gardens Illustrated and Fortean Times. The bi-monthly Fortean Times, which covers freakish events and scientific oddities, has recorded a massive increase on July-December 1994, up by 112% to over 60,000 copies. Gardens Illustrated was up by almost 50% year on year to 46,066. ABC… Continue reading Early July-December ABCs Released
The latest regional newspapers to launch on the Internet include the Surrey Advertiser and the Sunderland Echo. The Surrey Advertiser, which launched its site last week currently only has its entertainment section on-line; its news, business, sport, classifieds are to follow later.http://www.surreyad.co.uk/The Sunderland Echo carries the top local news and sports stories of the day,… Continue reading More Regionals Joins Net
Age restraints could be imposed on teenage magazines, it is reported, if the wishes of a Tory MP are taken into account. Peter Luff, the Tory MP for Worcester, is to introduce a Bill to enforce new curbs on teenage magazines.The Bill has come about following the recent furore surrounding advice given in an agony… Continue reading MP Calls For Magazine Curbs
The first July to December Consumer ABC has been released. Mixmag has recorded a total circulation of 72,364; this represents a massive 65% increase on its July to December 1994 figure, an actual change of over 28,000 copies.Emap is likely to be the first big group to release its ABCs; these are expected to be… Continue reading First Jul-Dec ABC Released
This morning Mr Sumption, QC for ITC, said that if the court found in favour of the Virgin challenge, C5B should still win the licence because only it had both high quality programes and the highest bid.This afternoon however Mr Scrivener, QC for Virgin TV, said that the court should go no further than quashing… Continue reading Latest In Challenge To Channel 5 Award
ITV has appointed Sam Carter as its new Marketing Manager. She begins work at the ITV Network Centre on 26 February. Her brief will be to co-ordinate and help drive forward the ITV Marketing Group’s activities in promoting the ITV brand more vigorously. Her appointment coincides with the Group’s recent appointment of M&C Saatchi to… Continue reading ITV Appoints New Marketing Manager
Viva, the London radio station aimed at women, which launched in July last year is in financial difficulties. This week three presenters and two full time staff plus a number of freelancers have been made redundant.Jean Brogan, Head of Programming and Marketing at Golden Rose told MediaTel that the problems are due to poor reception.… Continue reading Women’s Radio Viva Struggling
The row over terrestrial v pay channel coverage of sporting events continues to heighten. The latest furore concerns rumours that Murdoch is considering introducing pay-per-view television for the World Boxing Council title fight on March 16. Viewers to BSkyB may have to pay up to £20 to see Frank Bruno fight Mike Tyson.Frank Bruno’s world… Continue reading Sporting Coverage Row Continues
The latest cinema admissions figures, for November, show that average weekly admissions fell to below 2 million, a decrease of 5.2% on last year, to 1.98 million. October’s average admissions were 2.69 million.The total number of admissions was 8.498 million. Although this figure must be helped by the release of Goldeneye at the end of… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Fall Below 2M In November
Rumours are still abounding that GWR and ITN are in talks with Reuters about the possible purchase of London News Radio; the management-led buyout team collapsed recently. Reuters refuse to comment on the rumours. ITN is believed to be interested in protecting its Independent Radio News franchise, and GWR is interested in radio expansion generally.…… Continue reading London News Radio Rumours Persist
