The Sun has pulled out of its £1m sponsorship of Family Fortunes, after an ITV decision to move the programme from Friday to Saturday. The rescheduling will reduce impact on sales because of the extra delay before the Monday edition. The Family Fortune deal was announced together with 3 other game shows, Wheel of Fortune,… Continue reading Sun Withdraws Family Fortunes
The MRG evening held on 25 August was the first in a series held to celebrate 30 years of the MRG. Brian Jacobs, International Media Director of Leo Burnett was billed as speaking on “Why UK Media Research is the Best in the World?!” However, the first thing he asserted was his preferred title was… Continue reading Is UK Media Research The Best In The World? – MRG
Guardian Direct is to sponsor the Lawn Tennis Association’s British Nationals Championships, which take place from October 29 to November 6.
The Guardian is launching a new lifestyle section from Friday September 16. The new section, called Friday, will replace the G2 tabloid, with the usual Friday environment features and advertising being incorporated into the Thursday G2.Friday, which will still be a tabloid, newspaper format, will be entertainment based, giving a cultural preview of the weekend;… Continue reading Guardian Friday Lifestyle Section
The IRA announced shortly after 11am this morning that from midnight tonight there will be a “total cessation of violence”, and that the ceasefire will be “unconditional and open-ended”.The text of the IRA statement is:“Recognising the potential of the current situation and in order to advance the democratic peace process the IRA will call a… Continue reading IRA Ceasefire Announced
The Sky TV Guide launches this week; it has a circulation of 2,700,000, being mailed to all Sky subscribers.The glossy monthly has 148 pages, of which 27 are given to ads, although 14 of these are house ads for Sky channels such as Bravo, Nickelodeon and Discovery. This is an ad:ed ratio of 18:82. Big… Continue reading Sky TV Guide – First Issue Review
Unconfirmed reports in todays Daily Mail suggest that the Football Association has signed a £15 million deal with brewers Courage for sponsorship of the FA Cup. It comes after England’s failure to reach the 1994 World Cup which deprived the FA of some much needed revenue.The FA have made it clear that the sponsor’s name… Continue reading Fa Cup Sold For £15m
Growth of installed satellite TV dishes during the first six months of 1994 was 200,000, the lowest six-monthly growth recorded by monitoring company GfK, since they began measuring the market in 1991.However, satellite dishes grew by 34,000 in June, to 2,666,000; this is significantly better than the 20,000 increase measured during May. GfK’s commercial director… Continue reading Satellite Growth Slowing Down
Doubts over the future of Channel 5 are growing, it emerged at the Edinburgh Television Festival yesterday. The ITC is to decide next month whether to re-advertise the channel or not, bearing in mind the government’s latest rulings, which will make the channel only able to reach about 50% of the population.The successful applicant could… Continue reading Channel 5 Doubtful
Greg Dyke, speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival, said that broadcasting organisations are too dependent on the government; and their ability to call politicians to account is being dangerously eroded.Dyke said he had two main concerns; the first was that in commercial broadcasting the balance of being both a business and a broadcaster was in… Continue reading Broadcasters Attacked For Political Dependency
