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
Emap Metro is altering the sales teams of two of its titles to include the launch of Mojo in October. Sarah Jacombs, former ad manager of Select becomes ad manager of Empire. Julian Booth leaves Empire for Mojo, and Select is looking for a new ad manager. Premiere magazine is looking for a new ad… Continue reading Appointments
The results for the 1992/3 JNLR/MRBI listenership survey show little change in the listening pattern which has emerged over the past years.Independent local radio reaches 50% of all listeners placing the sector ahead of RTE Radio 1 and 2 FM on a national basis.Highland Radio in Donegal increased its market share to 64% making it… Continue reading Irish Radio Industry Survey
Sunset Radio, after being forced to stop transmission last week by National Transcommunications Limited, is back on air. (Newsline – 19/8)The Manchester soul station had defaulted on payments for transmission services, but has now agreed to pay all fees in advance to NTL until 24 October when the contract will end by mutual agreement.
Marmaduke Hussey, chairman of the BBC, has given his support to Radio 5, the BBC’s sport, youth and education network, following fears from staff that the station may be axed to provide a wavelength for the 24-hour continuous news network to which the BBC is committed.In a letter to MPs Hussey says that the DG,… Continue reading Hussey Supports Radio 5
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.
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 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 new autumn schedule for BBC2 was announced yesterday by Michael Jackson, controller of BBC2. The £70m schedule was described by Jackson as “rich in drama and strong in its range of entertainment and thought-provoking documentaries.”Drama is headed by 6 plays, which will star Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe. There is an adaptation… Continue reading BBC2 Autumn Schedule
