Overnight viewing figures for the start of the autumn schedules show that on Sunday evening ITV achieved a 46.9% prime time share of viewing compared to 33.9% for BBC1.Sunday night’s programmes included; Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, which was watched by 6 million people and had a 34% share of viewing, Heartbeat had 13.3 million viewers… Continue reading ITV Success In New Autumn Schedules
London radio listeners have more choice from this morning with the launch of Heart 106.2. Billed as London’s first adult contemporary music radio station, Heart 106.2 began broadcasting at 7am. Simply Red’s Something’s Got Me Started kicked the station off.Chrysalis owned Heart 106.2 will follow the format of its sister station, Heart 100.7, the regional… Continue reading More London Radio Competition
Press reports this morning claim that BSkyB is celebrating the largest ever audience achieved by satellite television in the UK for Saturday night’s exclusive coverage of Frank Bruno’s world title boxing match.Unofficial overnight figures put the peak viewing figure at 3.43m viewers; one million more viewers than previous satellite records. Sky claims this figure is… Continue reading Bruno Attracts Over 3m Satellite Viewers
The January to June ABCs show the women’s magazine market increasing by 262,098 copies on last year, to 5.8m. Most of this increase can be attributed to the inclusion of OK, which did not report an ABC for January to June 1994.Gruner & Jahr’s Prima boasts the highest circulation of the women’s monthlies at 557,338,… Continue reading ABC Round Up – Women’s Monthlies
Yesterday saw the launch of the new-look Observer; with a new section, new type-face and new contributors.There are now four broadsheet sections; the main, Business, Sport and Review; Life, the tabloid size magazine remains; Preview, the new section is an A4 size listings guide. Editorial says, “Review assesses the week that was, but Preview gives… Continue reading New Look Observer Launches
Sky Television has today announced its new £100m autumn season, to start from Sunday 24 September. There will be a new look for the nine channels, as well as a new corporate identity.Sky One’s highlights include new home-produced series such as Just Kidding, Jeopardy and Sunday Night, Sunday Morning; from America is Star Trek: Voyager,… Continue reading Sky Launches £100m Autumn Schedule
The Sun is to sponsor Yorkshire Television’s new series of Bruce’s Price is Right. The series, which will run for 17 weeks from tonight is based on The Price is Right. The Sun is supporting the series with a game card promotion offering readers the chance to win £20,000 per week.Sally Kingston, Sponsorship Manager for… Continue reading Sun To Come On Down
The Radio Authority has published its response to the Government’s Media Ownership Proposals; the Authority has also included recommendations for changes to the 1990 Broadcasting Act.The Radio Authority has specifically highlighted the fact there is no mention of ‘safeguarding plurality’ in the 1990 Act (by plurality it means a range of views and opinions); plurality… Continue reading Radio Authority Response To Media Ownership Proposals
Talk Radio has today sacked two of its original presenters; Caesar the Geezer and Terry Christian. This latest move seems to be a sign that Talk Radio is abandoning the “shock jock” tactics which were its selling points when it launched in February.Caesar repeatedly breached rules on taste and decency on his late night show,… Continue reading Talk Radio Axes Caesar And Terry Christian
The IPA has issued its formal response to the Government’s Paper on cross media ownership. The basis of the IPA’s recommendations are: Regulatory safeguards must address media advertising sales concentrations as well as media ownership The thresholds defining the scope of the regulator’s discretion within each media sector should be 25% of that sector’s advertising… Continue reading IPA Response To Government Media Ownership
