Conflicting and confusing reports have come out of Charlotte Street over the Xmas period with regard to Maurice Saatchi’s position at the company. The boardroom coup which resulted in Mr Saatchi being ousted both as chairman and board member came just before Xmas, and today was said to be the deadline for a decision as… Continue reading Saatchi Update
The Scottish Daily Express has linked up with Thomas Cook to launch Katie Wood’s Wonderful World of Holidays Game from January 9 for 18 days. 1.5 million game cards have been distributed, and Thomas Cook holiday vouchers can be won. The promotion has TV and radio support. Katie Wood is one of Scotland’s leading travel… Continue reading Scottish Express Launches Holidays Game
Gallup’s annual end-of-year poll for the Daily Telegraph shows people looking forward to 1995 with a mood of “cautious pessimism” – 30% believe 1995 will be better than 1994; 38% think it will be worse. This is not as gloomy a picture as the survey indicated in the mid to late 1970s and early 80s.69%… Continue reading Gallup Poll Points To “Cautious Pessimism”
MGM, Britain’s largest Cinema chain, has been put up for sale by its French owners, Credit Lyonnais. There are already reported to have been around 30 expressions of interest in the chain, with Steven Spielberg rumoured to be one of the interested parties. Any interest from the UK would have to come from one of… Continue reading MGM Put Up For Sale
Independent Newspapers, the Irish publishing and media company, has taken a 24.9% stake in Irish Press, Irelands second largest newspaper group. The move is seen as a defensive one to prevent non-Irish interests taking over the group.Conrad Black’s Telegraph Group is rumoured to have been considering taking a stake in Irish Press.
The meeting was chaired by Alan Copage and the speakers were Ray Morgan, Roger Beeson and Jean Wong from NRS and Erhard Meier from RSL.Ray Morgan opened the presentation by saying that the approach they would be taking would be an overview not a whitewash! Roger Beeson continued by outlining the format of the presentation.… Continue reading NRS An Overview
Conrad Black, through the Hollinger Group, is being given the option to purchase most of the remaining shares owned by the Berry family – once sole owners of the Telegraph.Under the agreement Hollinger can acquire the shares (7m) between 15th April and 24th October 1995. Lord Hartwell and Lord Camrose both directors of the Telegraph… Continue reading Black To Increase Telegraph Holding
The combined ITV and C4 revenue figure for November has come in at £187.64m – a 9.5% increase on the same period last year. The ITV/C4 split of revenue remain 80:20 at £149.39m and £38.25m respectively, representing a 7.3% and 19.3% year on yearincrease for both channels.In terms of share of revenue the best year… Continue reading TV Shares And Revenue – November
The results of a two week monitoring of ITV, C4 and BSkyB to assess the level of violence shown on each channel has found that both ITV and C4 have failed to reduce the overall level of violence called for by the ITC in July 1993, whilst Sky Movies and the Movie Channel showed a… Continue reading ITC – Violence Levels Remain Unchanged
Product development in the recession has been concentrated on existing titles rather than launching new ones, so there are few new titles, which points to a saturation of the market, the Mintel report says.In terms of distribution increasing numbers of supermarkets now stock the major sellers, and purchase patterns are split evenly between impulse and… Continue reading Mintel Magazine Survey
