BSkyB yesterday announced its financial results for the year to June 1993. BSkyB made a pre-tax, pre-interest profit of £61.5m, compared to a loss of £47m last year. Interest charges of £8m reduce this to £54m. Turnover is £380m with 80% coming from subscribers to movie channels and Sky Sports.BSkyB is to launch its second… Continue reading BSkyB Announces Profits
Cellnet announced yesterday that it is to take over the sponsorship of Capital Radio’s Flying Eye from the 27 September 1993, replacing current sponsors British Airways. Diamond White is to Sponsor Channel 4’s new Friday night youth programme Dial Midnight. Brewer Taunton is to spend a six-figure sum on the 17-week deal. The programme is… Continue reading C4 And Capital Radio Get New Sponsors
The Times newspaper circulation has risen 20% since the price cut on Monday of this week, an increase of 70,000 copies.(Times’ own figures).In a report in the Financial Times, research among newsagents shows sales for broadsheets to be up. Both The Guardian and Independent have increased their sales, with the Financial Times unaffected and the… Continue reading Times Sales Rise
Home Counties Newspapers returned to profit in the first half of the year, recovering from the effects of bad debt write-offs and depressed ad revenues.Profits for the six months to June 30 were £331,000, against a loss of £203,000 last year. Turnover was up 6.5% at £12.1m.The company said that although the national advertising had… Continue reading HCN Return To Profit
Mirror Group Newspapers has provisionally agreed to settle a series of legal disputes with the private companies of the late Robert Maxwell; the deal has to be approved at an extraordinary general meeting on 23 Sep. The agreement removes the potential for long and uncertain court action. MGN will abandon potential net claims of at… Continue reading MGN SETTLES DISPUTES
Adscene Group, the Canterbury based newspaper publisher, announced pre-tax profits of £2.1m, up 30% from £1.61m for the year ending May 31.The increase was aided by cost cutting and a steady improvement in the market.
According to the National Economic Research Associates latest survey of television advertising expectations, advertising agency confidence in the television market is continuing to improve.The August survey of leading ad agencies showed that agencies’ confidence in the TV advertising market remains “above normal for the time of year” for the eighth month in succession.Despite the rise… Continue reading Confidence In TV Ad Market Rises
The ITV companies’ plan to move News At Ten to an earlier slot is supported by a research study into viewers’ attention levels. The study from Carat Research shows that viewers pay much more attention to early evening news programmes. Less than half of News At Ten viewers say they pay full attention to the… Continue reading News At Ten Move Supported
Adscene Group, the Canterbury based newspaper publisher, announced pre-tax profits of £2.1m, up 30% from £1.61m for the year ending May 31.The increase was aided by cost cutting and a steady improvement in the market.
The forecasts for advertising expenditure in the regional press are showing steady improvements for 1994, the Free Newspaper Conference was told on Friday.Mike Waterson, research adviser to the Advertising Association, told the conference that the next two years are expected to be good ones for both the advertising industry as a whole, and the free… Continue reading Free Newspapers’ Future
