According to yesterday’s Sunday Times, ITV is demanding cuts of between £10m and £20m per year in the budget for News at Ten and other networked news bulletins. The savings would go towards increasing comedy output, in a bid to appease advertiser criticisms. ITN would not comment this morning, but has announced that its lead… Continue reading News At Ten – Budget Cut?
The ITC has announced it is to invite applications for a local delivery franchise for Southport. The license area is defined as including the local authority of Sefton, West Lancashire, South Ribble, and Chorley, other than those parts of the area covered by the existing Central Lancashire and North Liverpool and Sefton cable franchises. The… Continue reading New Local Delivery Franchise
Derek Hemment has been appointed deputy chief executive of Laser and Philip France has been appointed managing director. Gary Knight and Simon Pardon are both appointed as executive sales directors and will jointly manage the newly-merged sales department, supported by six account directors. Ian McCulloch is operations director.Mick Desmond, Chief Executive of Laser, said, “We… Continue reading Laser Restructuring – Appointments
In recent years the men’s monthly magazines market has grown considerably. There are currently nine titles in the market. Four were launched in the past five years with the latest addition, Ikon, launching at the end of July.The expanding sector has seen massive growth in terms of copies sold lately; in a year on year… Continue reading Mens Monthly Style Magazine Roundup
The Telegraph has released what it claims is the first ever global qualitative research live on the Internet for its on-line version, the Electronic Telegraph. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk).The results show that the majority of users are male and under 40, intelligent and computer literate. Most readers use computers in their jobs in industries ranging from business to… Continue reading ET Users – Not Readers Of Any Other Paper
Coca-Cola has appointed Publicis as its local service agency for Europe, replacing McCann-Erickson. The move does not however affect the creative work, which will continue to be carried out by the Creative Services Agency. Media planning and buying will still be carried out by McCanns.
Channel 4 has announced its proposed budget for next year. It will rise by 15% from £230m to £265m, with expansion for every area of the schedule. The Word will not be included in the new season after the budget.Youth commissioning editor David Stevenson said “Channel 4 is committed to constant innovation and that should… Continue reading Channel 4 Axes The Word
The ITC has awarded the local delivery licenses for Bassetlaw and Ravenshead to the sole bidder for each, Diamond Cable. Its cash bid for the Bassetlaw franchise was £1,666.66. For the Ravenshead franchise, Diamond Cable made a cash bid for £1.66.
GWR has announced that it now has control of 59% of Chiltern Radio PLC; it has received valid acceptances from the majority shareholders of Chiltern Radio, Capital Radio and DMGT. Capital, which has 1,297,100 shares, and DMGT, which has 1,297,175 shares, own 37% of Chiltern’s shares. EMA, which owns 648,588 Chiltern shares has also accepted… Continue reading GWR Takeover Of Chiltern Looks Set To Go Ahead
IPC is claiming that Loaded magazine has taken market leadership in the younger men’s lifestyle magazine sector with a 26% share of all advertising pages for July issues.In an internal review of pages, Loaded achieved 54.2 pages in comparison to Sky with 44.3, FHM with 45.8, The Face with 35 and I-D with 28.8.Karen Swan,… Continue reading Loaded Claims 26% Of All July Ad Pages
