News International yesterday halved the cover price of the Sunday Times to 50p. The newspaper claims that the price cut was a one-off timed to coincide with the serialisation of the Prince of Wales biography and that next weekend it will return to £1.The latest ABCs for September, released on Friday, show the Sunday Times… Continue reading Sunday Times Joins Price War
The Independent has today launched its new weekly section Metro, which replaces the daily London section launched in May. Like the old section Metro is a tabloid carrying editorial and listings for the London region but comprises 32 pages compared to the Daily section’s 16 pages.Today’s issue is made up of 8 pages of editorial… Continue reading Metro Review
Pearson has bought the Register Group, which monitors advertising copy, expenditure and editorial, for £16 million from a group backed by Apax Venture Capital. The Register Group was originally part of the Maxwell empire and included Media-Register, prior to its merger with MEAL forming Register-MEAL. Register-MEAL and the Register Group are now direct competitors.The Register… Continue reading Pearson Acquires Register Group
The ITC has drawn up some draft guidelines on TV ads for confectionery, food and slimming products. The guidelines would prohibit ads showing people eating several confectionery bars at one sitting and ads for slimming products would not be allowed to be directed at adolescents or children or use actors under the age of 25.The… Continue reading Guidelines For TV Food Ads
Sir Peter Gibbings has been appointed as the next chairman of the Radio Authority, taking over from Lord Chalfont next January. He is a former chairman of the Guardian and Manchester Evening News, a director of the Economist and a member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission Newspaper Panel.
As predicted on Newsline earlier this week the Times has broken the 600,000 mark with its latest ABC for September’94. Its figure of 607,143 is up by 1.6% on August. The Guardian achieved the highest increase of the quality dailies up by 8.4% to 410,786, while the Independent increased slightly to 290,031 (+0.2%).The Daily Mirror… Continue reading Times Breaks 600,000 Barrier
The combined ITV/C4 revenue for August, based on agency estimates, came in at £127m. This is a year on year increase of 9.6%. The ITV figure was £100.56m, up 5.7% year on year, with C4’s revenue £26.44m, up by an impressive 27.4%. This is a 79:21 ratio. The best contractor performance came from Carlton, with… Continue reading Television Round-Up – August
Early estimates of September ABCs, due to be released tomorrow (see Newsline late tomorrow) show The Times’ sales breaking 600,000 for the first time, and The Guardian adding over 30,000 copies to its August figure of 379,000.The Independent is expected to show a small increase, and The Telegraph a drop of about 8,000 copies. Sales… Continue reading September Estimates Show Times And Guardian On The Up
January 1995 is said to be the planned launch date for BBC Worldwide TV’s two European cable and satellite channels. A series of partners suitable to each country will be involved.
Regional Press Adscene Group has bought the Scunthorpe Star from PIA Publishing for £100,000. The Star has a free distribution 0f 46,000 copies weekly. Its area borders with Adscene’s Lincolnshire Standard Group.Central Independent Newspapers is to take over the national sales account for the Hinckley Times from Mediaforce.Magazines Campaign’s cover price has increased from £1.50… Continue reading Publishing News
