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US pay- television company, Flextech, has taken a 39% stake in The Family Channel, headed by Pat Robertson and due to launch on Astra on September 1. The deal has been valued at £3m, with sources within the company predicting that the channel will be profitable within its first 18 months. Shares in Flextech rose… Continue reading Flextech Takes Stake In Family Channel
Capital Radio saw a fall in profits for the six months to March 1993, dropping from £6.29m to £4.65m. Operating costs fell to £10.4m and earnings per share from 6.3p to 4.6p. Sales for the station improved, rising to £14.5m from last period’s £14.2m, with turnover declining to £16.1m from £16.2m. Interim dividends stood at… Continue reading Capital Radio Profits
ITV has introduced a new ‘God’ strand into its Sunday morning schedule which will include prayer requests and on-air ‘confessionals’. The programme , due to begin transmission in the autumn, is an attempt to boost the popularity of religious output and will take the form of a magazine show.”This initiative is the result of widespread… Continue reading ITV Sunday Schedule Strengthened
Centaur Conferences is running a radio conference today entitled ‘Radio Fights Back’, discussing topics which include ‘RAJAR – What the Data Has Shown’, ‘ How Radio Can Work For Advertisers’, ‘ National vs Local- A Battle To Death’. John Pearson of Virgin 1215 and Roger Gane director of RAJAR, will be amongst the speakers.
Douglas Mcarthur, managing director of the Radio Advertising Bureau, believes that the radio industry is collaborating internally to market radio as an advertising brand and that the medium is presenting a united front against competitive media.McArthur, the keynote speaker at today’s Radio Fights Back conference, predicts that changes within the industry will encourage advertisers to… Continue reading Radio Fights Back – Keynote Speech
National Heritage secretary, Peter Brooke, is looking into the possibility of changing broadcasting rules which prevent individual ITV companies from taking over each other. Within the 1990 Broadcasting Act it deems the 14 regional companies as “large”, and therefore unable to iniatiate take- overs.Brooke realises this could result in future problems for certain ITV companies… Continue reading ITV Companies In Policy Change
April estimates of TV revenue came in at £149,440,000 an increase of 6.7% on the same period last year, aswell as a 6.8% improvement of last month’s total. ITV’s revenue showed a month on month increase of 7.6% compared to Channel 4’s 3.3% rise; revenue for each stands at £122,970,000 and £26,480,000 respectively. Channel 4’s… Continue reading TV Round Up – April
Rugby Union has signed a £600,000 contract with Scottish Provident to sponsor ITV’s coverage over the next two years.
Thistle Hotels and Asics UK have set up a football sponsorship deal with Leeds worth more than £2m over two years. The deal includes a new strip which will be worn at away matches.