At the board meeting of Newspaper Publishing, owner of the Independent papers held yesterday, staff were told that there would not be any cuts in the editorial budget. Patrick Morrison, chief executive, had argued for cuts of £8 million.This means that the papers will have to look to an outside group for survival The most… Continue reading Independent Spared Editorial Cuts
British Sky Broadcasting has made its first £50m payment to its shareholders. The payment was the first return on a total of £1.6bn invested in the project so far. Operating profit had reached £3m a week by the end of November, but the figure for the full half year is not yet released. Richard Brooke,… Continue reading BSkyB Subscription Move A Success
Granada Group has reacted to the LWT defence document published on Sunday by calling it an “empty document”, which “failed to add anything to the debate”.Gerry Robinson, chief executive of Granada said that the document failed to address the fundamental question of how LWT will provide long term earnings growth to its shareholders.
The combined TV Revenue for November, based on agency estimates, came in at £171.23m, an increase of 2.3% on the same month in 1992. The ITV/C4 split was an 81:19 ratio.The combined YTTV share came in at 8%, a 3.38% point fall on November 1992. LWT and Meridian also both showed decreases, of 0.6% points,… Continue reading TV Revenue – November
Media Week’s publishers, Emap, have announced that Phoebe Corke will take over from Richard Gold as editor from next month.Corke is a former editor of Checkout, the grocery monthly. John Thater, md of Emap Media said that Corke’s marketing industry contacts had been a major factor in her appointment, because the title is to be… Continue reading New Editor For Media Week
According to a report by broker Smith New Court, Channel 4 will have to make a payment of £40 million to the other ITV companies, following its strong performance in the first year of selling its own advertising.The report gives Channel 4 18.6% of total terrestrial TV advertising, beating its target by £80 million. The… Continue reading Channel 4 To Pay Out £40m
Stewart Francis, chairman of the Association of Independent Radio Companies, has called for the FM frequencies in the 105-108MHz band to be used to enable existing AM services to convert to FM.These frequencies will become available to the Radio Authority in 1996. In the Annual AIRC report, Stewart Francis says that the decision on how… Continue reading Airc Calls For AM To FM Conversion
Media Week’s publishers, Emap, have announced that Phoebe Corke will take over from Richard Gold as editor from next month.Corke is a former editor of Checkout, the grocery monthly. John Thater, md of Emap Media said that Corke’s marketing industry contacts had been a major factor in her appointment, because the title is to be… Continue reading New Editor For Media Week
According to a report by broker Smith New Court, Channel 4 will have to make a payment of £40 million to the other ITV companies, following its strong performance in the first year of selling its own advertising.The report gives Channel 4 18.6% of total terrestrial TV advertising, beating its target by £80 million. The… Continue reading Channel 4 To Pay Out £40m
The combined TV Revenue for November, based on agency estimates, came in at £171.23m, an increase of 2.3% on the same month in 1992. The ITV/C4 split was an 81:19 ratio.The combined YTTV share came in at 8%, a 3.38% point fall on November 1992. LWT and Meridian also both showed decreases, of 0.6% points,… Continue reading TV Revenue – November
