Sugar, the teenage magazine launched by Attic Futura last October, has released an impressive first ABC of 262,477, making it the second highest selling title in the market. Emap’s More still dominates the market, with a January to June ABC of 416,167, up by 5.7% year on year.Emap has been less succesful with Just Seventeen,… Continue reading Teenage ABCs – Sugar’s Success
News International have announced unaudited results for the year ending 30 June 1995.The company has reported an operating profit of £122.2 million for the period, an increase of 27% above the 1994 performance. According to News International both the circulation and advertising revenue showed increases in the year and overhead costs were tightly controlled. Unaudited… Continue reading News International Profits Double
Cumbrian Newspapers last week launched a new Sunday title, Sunday News & Star, just two weeks before independent local rival newspaper, Borders On Sunday, is to be launched.Both newspapers are being launched to coincide with the start of the new football season and the editorial emphasis on both will be firmly sport-based. Both papers are… Continue reading New Sunday Regional Newspapers
With most of the January to June ABC circulation figures now in, the men’s lifestyle titles are still one of the fastest growing sectors, with FHM achieving the highest % increase of any consumer title so far, up 50.3% year on year.Two years ago, in this category, only Sky had an ABC of over 100,000.… Continue reading Loaded Success Over GQ
SoapsThe top programme for the first six months of 1995 was unsurprisingly Coronation Street. From the week ending 15/01/95 it was watched by 19.44 million viewers. Coronation Street completely dominates the soap category, with 35 placings all ahead of Eastenders highest rated episode of 17.02 million viewers.FilmsThe top rated film of ’95 was the network… Continue reading Jan-Jun 1995 Top Programmes
MTV Europe has announced the results of the Niko Werbe Index and the AWA ’95 study which reveals that MTV Europe is the most popular music channel for 16-34 year olds in Germany.The Niko Werbe Index is a survey which was conducted in June/July 1995 among a sample of 5,020 adults of 14 years and… Continue reading MTV Europe – Ahead In Germany
Media Sales and Marketing have revealed that listeners are more comfortable with radio sponsorship than that of television.The research was conducted with 14 groups around the country: London, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol and was carried out by the Sponsorship Research Company. The research sampled 19 -24 year olds and 25-44 year men and women and… Continue reading Radio Sponsorship – Listeners Approval
Emap are to launch a sixth magazine motorcycle title called Ride. The new magazine is to be launched on September 21, will have a cover price of £2.20 and will be published monthly.Ride will have an initial print run of 140,000 and is aimed at practical motorcycle owners. The editorial content reports on new and… Continue reading New Motorcycle Magazine
The Regional Strategic Alliance (RSA), a consortium of regional groups – Midland Independent Newspapers, Guardian Media Group, Thomson, Trinity, Northcliffe and UPN – has announced that its first project will be a series of three magloid supplements based on the 1996 European Championship football tournament. The colour supplements will consist of 32 pages and will… Continue reading New Regional Football Supplements
National Magazines has released their awaited January to June ABC figures. Whilst Cosmopolitan has recorded a reasonable increase on last year’s figure, up 9.4%, its figure of 456,131 is just 1,022 copies ahead of its IPC rival, Marie Claire. Marie Claire’s Jan to June ABC was up 14.34% year on year to 455,109. Compared to… Continue reading Cosmopolitan Loses Ground On Marie Claire
