The ITC has today announced that C4 will pay £57.3m to the Channel 3 licensees for 1994. The ITC has determined that total terrestrial qualifying revenue for 1994 was £1,993.6m; Channel 4 earned qualifying revenue of £393.9m. This would make C4’s contribution £57.4m. However, the ITC audits of 1993 revenue have resulted in a slight… Continue reading C4 To Pay £57.3m To ITV Companies
Sandals Resorts are to sponsor the West Indies cricket tour of the UK 1995.The West Indies UK match programme will last from 13th May to 5th September 1995. This will include six Test and three One-day International matches and is the first time that the West Indies will play six Test matches on a tour… Continue reading Sandals To Sponsor Cricket Tour
News International has this morning released interim results for the 6 months to December 31. The sale of the 20% stake in BSkyB when it floated in December brought in £403.4m, boosting pre-tax profits to £561.9m, compared to £126.7m last year.As well as the continued growth in circulations, advertising for NI titles has also continued… Continue reading News International Profits Up
Heineken is to sponsor ITV’s Rugby World Cup coverage in a deal worth over £2 million. It is the first ITV deal where the broadcast sponsor is also a sponsor of the event, with Heineken the official worldwide beer sponsor.The sponsorship, which will carry credits in the opening and closing titles and break bumpers, will… Continue reading Heineken To Sponsor Rugby World Cup
Average weekly Cinema admissions for December were 1.8 million, a decrease of 8.2% on December 1993. However there were no main releases this year compared to last December, when both Disney’s Aladdin and Adam’s Family Values were released.Quarter 4 as a whole was up 18% on Q4 1993. The annual average of weekly admissions was… Continue reading Cinema Admissions – December
The latest July to December ABCs released today show a mixed bag for IPC; most of the women’s weeklies recording increases year on year. TV & Satellite Week fared best, increasing by 29.4% year on year to 179,051. Marie Claire also fared well, recording an ABC of 430,622, up 17.1%. Country Homes & Interiors was… Continue reading IPC ABCs
Michael Green, chairman of Carlton Communications is to step down next month as chairman of Independent Television News. Last month the board agreed that the chairmanship of ITN should rotate every two years; Michael Green will have been there two years in April.It is expected that he will be replaced by Gerry Robinson, chief executive… Continue reading New Chairmen For ITN/BskyB
This morning saw the launch of Business Magazines Week. The week will focus on the role of the business medium, with a variety of events as well as a £1m burst of activity in the media and marketing presss. Organised by the PPA, the generic campaign will promote what the PPA claims is currently the… Continue reading Business Magazines Week Launches
IPC and Nat Mags have today announced that they have reached a settlement of the action which National Magazines had brought against IPC over the launch of IPC’s Homes & Ideas infringing copyright on their House Beautiful.As part of the settlement, IPC will make some changes to Homes & Ideas, from the May issue. This… Continue reading IPC And Nat Mags Reach Agreement Over Homes & Ideas
The Sun is to return as sponsor of ITV’s Play Your Cards Right, following its sponsorship in 1994. The new series begins a 16-week run at 7pm on Friday 10 February, with new sponsorship credits. The sponsorship will be supported with off-air game cards distributed in the Sun.ITV research into the 1994 sponsorship showed that… Continue reading Sun To Re-Sponsor Play Your Cards Right
