In this quarter’s RAJAR data it is the local commercial radio stations which have staved off what could have been a poor showing by the commercial sector as whole. Where national commercial stations lost 4.9% of their weekly reach and their share of listening fell from 10.0% to 9.3%, the local stations pushed their reach… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations (Subscribers)
The Q4 RAJAR figures released today have thrown up a rather mixed batch of results in the London Stations sector, showing some sharp increases in weekly reach, but also some substantial falls. Choice FM showed the largest proportional rise in weekly reach, rising 27.9%, taking its total weekly reach up to 261,000.London Stations RAJAR Q4… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR 1998 – London Stations
The UK commercial radio industry saw its total revenue increase to over £420 million in 1998 according to figures just released by the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB). This represents an annual growth of 18.6%, or £66 million, as well as being the largest revenue figure yet achieved by the industry. This growth is set against… Continue reading Commercial Radio Revenue Tops £420m In 1998
A new television listings magazine? Surely there are enough. Well that’s what I thought on being assigned to review this latest offering from Emap. They must surely have been aware of the ill-fated Film & TV Week, launched two years ago to the month and surviving a grand total of 10 weeks (see Newsline). Indeed… Continue reading First Issue Review – Heat
When I started playing computer games, back in the dark mid-80s, everything on the screen that you could shoot, jump on or dodge was made up of badly stuck together squares. Quite small and differently coloured squares, admittedly, but still easily-identifiable, ninety degree-cornered squares. And the screen was a twenty year old television. And the… Continue reading First Issue Review – Arcade
ZM – Front Cover“Pile driver, rod, master of ceremonies, magic twanger, little general, John Thomas, third leg, upright citizen, pud, quarter master, coral branch, dangus and… wait for it… gap stopper.” Oh yes, NatMags’ ZM has adorned the first twenty pages of its first issue with as many willy-words as the editorial team and a… Continue reading First Issue Review – ZM
Commercial radio is claiming to have hit its highest ever hours per listener for the summer period, up to 15.1 in these RAJAR figures. Radio listening as a whole, was also up for this quarter by 4%.In the local commercial market London’s Capital 95.8 has turned in strong results with its market-leading share of listening… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
The weekly reach of all BBC stations increased by 1.4% this quarter to 26.6 million, a slightly larger increase than all commercial stations, which saw a rise of 1.2% year on year. During the summer period, both Talk Radio and Virgin saw healthy increases in weekly reach, of 11.2 and 18.6 percent respectively.Radio 4 saw… Continue reading Q3 RAJAR 1998 – National Stations
James Gordon Looks Back On The 25 Years That Have Made Commercial Radio A Successfrom The Times 2 October 1998Commercial radio celebrates the 25th anniversary of LBC’s first broadcast on Thursday. The station launched at 6am on October 8, 1973.London was not the easiest place in which to start radio with local appeal since the… Continue reading Radio Has Reason To Party
The much-heralded and long-awaited television revolution begins tomorrow with the launch of Sky Digital’s 80-channel satellite TV service. Following hot on the heels of Sky’s digital satellite service comes digital terrestrial TV (DTT) in the form of ONdigital – a company owned by ITV franchise holders, Carlton and Granada. Cable & Wireless Communications joins the… Continue reading Television’s Digital Future
