QVC, the television shopping channel, has increased net sales for the second calendar quarter to £7.38 million. This compares to £2.81 million for the same period last year.According to QVC the third quarter has started well for the 21 month old channel, with July gross orders over seven days of £1.24m which beat its ’94… Continue reading QVC Triples Size Of Call Centre To Cope With Demand
The new licence for the Chichester, Bognor Regis and Littlehampton area has been issued to South West Sussex Radio Ltd.The station will provide music, local news, information and speech based programmes. Jim Brooks, chairman of the Volunteer Group said that music will cover late ’50’s and ’60’s. The audience profile will be aged between 25-55.… Continue reading SWSR Radio To Launch In March
The Radio Authority has advertised two licences and issued a new licence. A new Independent Local Radio Licence for Stratford Upon Avon has been advertised. The licence being offered will use the FM frequency and 170,000 adults should be able to receive it.Two local licences for Northern Ireland have been re-advertised. The AM licence covers… Continue reading Radio Licence Awards
For the past 18 months Jazz FM has been known as JFM 102.2 in London and JFM 100.4 in Manchester. From September 22nd the two stations will change their names back to Jazz FM.Further Information: Mark Borkowski 0171 482 4000
Amra has developed a new North West regional press package which TMD Carat is using to launch Continental Airlines’ new transatlantic Manchester to Newark (USA) flight.AMRA claims its North West package delivers an AB readership of around 180,000 with a total readership of over 800,000 and offers an alternative or upweight in the North West… Continue reading Amra Regional Press Package
York-based Minster FM has acquired and renamed Sunderland-based Wear FM to Sun City 103.4 FM.Geoff Hemming (from the Pulse in Bradford) is Programme Manager; Sales Manager, Tanya Masterman (from TFM); Senior Sales Exec, Denise Mickle (from TFM); Breakfast DJ, John Foster ( From Great Yorkshire Gold); Afternoon DJ Robin Griffiths (from Hallam FM) and Evening… Continue reading Minster Acquire Wear FM
Two new home cinema magazines are to be launched in September from Haymarket and WV Publications. VTV will be launched on 20th September and is published by Haymarket. Although the cover price has yet to be announced, it will be a bi-monthly glossy. VTV will be purely an audio-visual hardware magazine, aimed at the 18-40… Continue reading New Home Cinema Magazines
LWT has had variations to its licence approved by the ITC. The variations apply to minimum amounts of regional children’s and arts programmes required to be broadcast under the terms of LWT’s licence. The changes result from a reorganisation of the Friday early evening schedule by LWT which makes it difficult to accommodate a planned… Continue reading Variations To LWT Licence
The NBC Super Channel has ended the first half of 1995 with advertising sales running 60% up on the same period in 1994. The period saw a number of new advertisers signing on to the channel, the most recent of which, the International Wool Secretariat, has chosen to reinforce its airtime deal with Teletext and… Continue reading NBC Superchannel Ad Sales Up
