Yesterday the ITV Network unveiled a £25m investment in soccer coverage and a new team of presenters.Included in the new schedule is coverage of the World Cup, of all three European club competitions, the Coca Cola Cup and regional soccer from the Endsleigh League.The coverage will be hosted by Matthew Lorenzo, who will be joined… Continue reading ITV INVESTS IN SOCCER COVERAGE
The Aegis group, the holding company of Europe’s largest media buying and planning group yesterday announced profits for the first six months of 1993.The figure for pre-tax profits was £13.2m, compared to break even in the first half of last year, and a loss of £1.9m for the year to end of December 1992. Turnover… Continue reading Aegis Profits Announced
The Aegis group, the holding company of Europe’s largest media buying and planning group yesterday announced profits for the first six months of 1993.The figure for pre-tax profits was £13.2m, compared to break even in the first half of last year, and a loss of £1.9m for the year to end of December 1992. Turnover… Continue reading Aegis Profits Announced
News Corporation yesterday announced an increase in profits in the year ending June 1993. Pre-tax profits for the group were A$1.16 billion, compared with A$622.4m in 1992. Group turnover has increased 4.9% to A$10.7 billion.News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, and owner of newspapers the Sun and the Sunday Times reported pre-tax profits of… Continue reading News Corporation Profits
The latest batch of Jan-Jun’93 ABCs show Vanity Fair recording a substant- ial year-on-year increase; Totals J-J’92 J-J’93 %Ch Vanity Fair 64,283 77,707 20.9 Tatler 71,371 69,678 -2.4 Vogue 183,535 178,729 -2.6 House& Grdn 146,546 141,196 -3.7 Wrld Intrs 70,670 63,256 -10.5 UK&Eire J-J’92 J-J’93 %Ch Vanity Fair 38,849 53,908 38.8 Tatler 54,295 60,611 11.6… Continue reading Latest Jan-Jun Magazine ABCs
The latest motoring magazine Carweek from EMAP launches today with an initial print run of 300,000.Carweek is made up of two sections, the outer full of features and news and the inner a guide to buying and selling new and used cars. With both sections having similar pagination (the outer section has 56 pages and… Continue reading CARWEEK – FIRST ISSUE REPORT
WPP, the advertising group which owns J Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather has announced its interim pre-tax profits.Profits have risen 13-fold to £24.1m and revenues rose 16% to £699.7m.
Media Vision Research has developed a service to provide detailed information on the viewing of pre-recorded videos, called VideoTrak.VideoTrak findings are based on data collected from the BARB panel. MVR encodes videos with a signal that is read by the people-meters in the BARB homes when a video is played. The system distinguishes between viewing… Continue reading MVR Videotrak
Linford Christie’s winning run in the 100m final at Stuttgart on 15 August boosted BBC1’s ratings to 11.5m viewers.This was the highest audience for any single BBC1 programme in its week except for Eastenders. During that week BBC1 claimed 33.2% of the total television audience, with ITV’s share dropping to 36.8% from over 40%.
The July revenue for ITV and C4 came in at £106.28m and £26m respectively, giving a combined total of £132.28m – a 0.1% fall on the same period last year.Channel 4 achieved a 19.66% share of revenue – down 0.27% points on last month, but still well above the 16.21% share being achieved in January.… Continue reading TV ROUND UP – JULY
