Abbott Mead Vickers have released interim figures showing pre-tax profits up an impressive 58.6% to £2.38m from £1.50m. Turnover has also increased to £108.09m from £94.41m, up 14%, with overall operating profits up 71% to £2.12m.
According to a survey carried out by the European Television Magazines Association, which will appear in this week’s Radio Times, children across Europe prefer cartoons and soap operas to programmes containing violence and too much talk.The survey carried out amongst 9 and 10 year olds across 9 European countries, show that children in Britain prefer… Continue reading Children Prefer Soaps
Lord Stevens, Chairman Of United Newspapers yesterday reiterated that the Express will not be joining the national newspaper cover price wars. Lord Stevens said, “Our policy is to maintain cover prices and enhance the value of our titles to readers.”United Newspapers announced results for the six months to June. Pre-tax profits were up 36% to… Continue reading Express Will Not Join Price Wars
More O’Ferrall Also Announced Results yesterday, with pre-tax profits up 35% to £2.81m. UK and Irish revenues rose 15%. The group said they had increased prices for poster space.
Videotron Corporation, London’s largest cable operator, has announced plans to offer services in the City of London and the City of Westminster, to both residential and business customers.Videotron have unveiled a business TV and information service offering video, voice, text, data and graphics to business customers, via a single connection to their desk top PC.… Continue reading Multimedia Cable TV Plans For City
The first phase of ISOP (the Newspaper Society’s ongoing 1993 multimedia research initiative) is published today in an 18 page report entitled The Multimedia Revolution. Conducted by Meta£Generics, the report describes a vision of the future in which new technologies – On-Line or CD-ROM/CD-i – will radically change regional publishing markets in terms of product… Continue reading Regionals Embrace Multimedia Revolution
The combined ITV/C4 revenue for August has been estimated at £127m, representing a year on year increase of 9.6%, and continues the upward trend which has been apparent since the beginning of the year.The individual ITV and C4 revenue figures of £100.56m and £26.44m both highlight year on year improvements with C4 up an incredible… Continue reading TV Shares And Revenues – August 1994
Janet Street Porter announced yesterday that she is leaving the BBC to become managing director of the Mirror Group’s new cable television channel, Live TV. Street-Porter, currently head of independent production for BBC TV’s entertainment group, said, “I wanted to start a channel from scratch editorially. What’s always driven me is writing new types of… Continue reading Janet Street Porter To Head Cable TV Channel
Channel 4 is claiming that its Big Breakfast show had a 300,000 peak time lead over GMTV on Monday of this week. GMTV has led consistently through the summer, but according to unofficial figures the C4 show had 1.8 million viewers at 8.00am on Monday, compared to 1.5 million for GMTV. This would be a… Continue reading Channel 4 Claims Big Breakfast Leads GMTV
Activity among the “target” TV companies’ shares today has slowed compared to the sharp increases yesterday, but prices have remained strong. Company Price 10.45 am Price 4.30 pm Change over day Scottish 500 498 -2 Yorkshire Tyne Tees 392 395 3 Grampian 354 356 2 Ulster 720 720 Mirror Group 139 137.5 -1.5
