The National Magazine Company today issued High Court Proceedings against IPC Magazines Ltd regarding the recent launch of the IPC title Homes & Ideas. The National Magazine Company alleges infringement of copyright and believes that substantial parts of its own title House Beautiful have been copied in Homes & Ideas.Terry Mansfield, md of the National… Continue reading Homes & Ideas Legal Battle
Anne Clywd, shadow heritage secretary, has this week added the Labour Party’s opposition to that of ISBA, and a number of medium sized TV companies, by introducing a bill into the House of Commons to extend the moratorium on hostile takeovers of ITV companies until December 31st 1996.Peter Brooke is expected to make a statement… Continue reading Labour Plan Takeover Amendment
Official BARB ratings for the first two weeks of the new schedule show Scottish TV’s audience share increasing from 33% to 47%, almost entirely at the expense of Channel 4, whose audience dropped on average from 13% to 8%.In Scotland, Channel 4 had been taking a significant proportion of young viewers in the early evening.… Continue reading Scottish TV Dominates C4
Mike Baker, currently Ad Marketing Controller for IPC Weeklies Group, is to become Divisional Advertisement Marketing Controller from November 1st. He will report to SouthBank Group Managing Director Colin Reeves-Smith.Colin Reeves-Smith said “The marketing and sales support for our ad sales teams has increasingly become a function that requires a divisional overview. In his two… Continue reading New Role For IPC’s Baker
Abbott Mead Vickers yesterday reported a 2.6% drop in pre-tax profits for the first half of 1993, from £1.54m to £1.5m.This drop was in spite of a strong increase in new business in recent months and an increase in turnover to £94.4m. David Abbott, chairman, is optimistic about 1994, saying there were signs that cutbacks… Continue reading Abbott Mead Vickers Profits Down
According to National Economic Research Associates’ latest survey of television advertising expectations, confidence levels in the ad market remain “above normal for the time of year” for the ninth month in succession.Confidence has however fallen slightly on last month, and only low growth in television ad revenue is expected over the next year.There continues to… Continue reading TV Advertising Expectations Remain High
Ted Turner’s TNT & Cartoon Network was viewed for an average of 14 minutes in its’ first full week of broadcasting, giving it a 1% share of total viewing.Figures released today by BARB for the week ending 26th September show the Childrens’ Channel and Nickleodeon losing out to the newcomer with shares of 0.8% and… Continue reading Cartoon Viewing Figures
Pitney Bowes is sponsoring the financial news on London radio station Jazz FM in a one year deal. Provident Life is to sponsor Classic FM’s weather bulletins which are broadcast nine times a day. Philishave is sponsoring a series of ten short programmes titled The Man Inside, to be broadcast on Virgin 1215 on Thursday… Continue reading Radio Sponsorship
On 27th October the Media Research Group is holding an evening meeting on RAJAR – How is Radio’s New Baby Shaping Up?Speaking will be John Stockley and Steven Finch from RSL, reviewing the methodology and results from RAJAR. Justin Sampson from the Radio Advertising Bureau will be talking about the effect of increased choice on… Continue reading MRG Meetings
The campaign against imposing VAT on the publishing industry is being stepped up just before the November budget.The Periodical Publishers Association is sharing a stand at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool with the Advertising Association. MP’s will be bombarded with anti-VAT material.The Newspaper Society has also released research showing that the majority of cabinet… Continue reading CAMPAIGN AGAINST VAT ON READING UPPED
