Fleetway Editions is set to launch a comic version of the popular Sega games character, Sonic The Hedgehog. Enter: Sonic the Comic, due for release on May 29.With a print run of 400,000, the new fortnightly title will be Britain’s first comic devoted to computer characters, covering the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and other… Continue reading Fleetway To Launch Sonic The Hedgehog
TV Times magazine has conducted a survey into viewers’ attitudes to the depiction of violence on television, finding that 85% of those questioned believe TV companies do not monitor violence adequately. A further 59% think there is a link between screen and real-life violence.ITC research conducted last month, however, found that only 11% of ITV… Continue reading Survey Probes TV Violence
Amid continual controversy surrounding dish sales in the UK, Continental Research has decided to no longer produce its monthly satellite monitor because of the difficulties involved in obtaining accurate figures; caused by the differing definitions used and sampling errors amongst the research groups producing figures – BARB, GfK and C.R.To mark the end of the… Continue reading Continental Research End Monthly Dish Sales Monitor
Following warnings from the ITC regarding regional programming (Newsline 22/3), and Ann Clwyd’s accusation that YTTTV plans to run down the north east as a broadcasting region Tyne Tees has announced a £1.5m investment plan to expand its news coverage. News will become more localised, with specific programmes for both the north and south parts… Continue reading Tyne Tees Expands News Service
A number of institutional investors will be ‘positively abstaining’ from the vote to approve a controversial plan by Conrad Black to sell an 11% stake in loss-making Canadian publisher Southam to the Telegraph. A number of institutions see this latest move as confirmation of their concerns over Black’s stewardship of the newspaper group. As a… Continue reading Telegraph Shareholders Protest Vote
24% of viewers believe BBC1 is biased towards the Conservative party, compared to just 13% fifteen years ago according to a recent ITC survey. A further 14% believed the same bias is true of BBC2.
Fleetway Editions is set to launch a comic version of the popular Sega games character, Sonic The Hedgehog. Enter: Sonic the Comic, due for release on May 29.With a print run of 400,000, the new fortnightly title will be Britain’s first comic devoted to computer characters, covering the adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog and other… Continue reading Fleetway To Launch Sonic The Hedgehog
Irish publisher Independent Newspapers has halved its stake in MGN to just over 1%, having recouped an estimated £1m profit from the sale.
Increased activity from media, motoring and travel advertisers in the first quarter of 1993 pushed up outdoor advertising panel prices significantly, according to the latest Concord Outdoor Rates Forecast.Actual year-on-year price increase for the 1st quarter’93 was 8.9%, 7.6% above predictions made at the beginning of the year. The surprising increase has been attributed to… Continue reading Concord – Second Quarter Rates Forecast
TV Times magazine has conducted a survey into viewers’ attitudes to the depiction of violence on television, finding that 85% of those questioned believe TV companies do not monitor violence adequately. A further 59% think there is a link between screen and real-life violence.ITC research conducted last month, however, found that only 11% of ITV… Continue reading Survey Probes TV Violence
