Running magazine has been sold to US publisher Rodale and will relaunch with the September issue retitled Runner’s World.. Publishing company, Morgan Grampian, is claiming 12 monthly pre-tax profits of £2.2m, with turnover falling by a mere 1.5% to £81.9m.. What Camcorder, published by WV Publications, is to increase its frequency from bi-monthly to monthly… Continue reading Magazines Snippets..
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IPC Magazines has confirmed the forth- coming launch of Homes & Ideas, a new monthly home interest title due for release on September 9.The title, with an initial print run of 235,000, will be published by the Southbank Group, which also deals with Ideal Home, Homes & Gardens and Country Homes & Interiors. Managing director… Continue reading IPC Delves Into Home Interest
The regional radio licence for Filey and Scarborough has been awarded to Yorkshire Coast Radio, having defeated its one competitor, All Music Radio. YCR, run by Toby Horton formerly of Radio Tyne Tees, aims to get a proportion of its regional material from Yorkshire Television and the Scarborough Evening News.
The Independent Television Commission has just released the latest figures for subscribers to broadband cable, claiming a rise of 168,000 in the last twelve months to 459,000. The take-up rate has also increased during this period, rising from 20.5% to 21.6% in the last quarter.The average broadband cable subscriber now pays £21.74 per month, according… Continue reading ITC Broadband Cable Figures Released
The regional radio licence for Filey and Scarborough has been awarded to Yorkshire Coast Radio, having defeated its one competitor, All Music Radio. YCR, run by Toby Horton formerly of Radio Tyne Tees, aims to get a proportion of its regional material from Yorkshire Television and the Scarborough Evening News.
Running magazine has been sold to US publisher Rodale and will relaunch with the September issue retitled Runner’s World.. Publishing company, Morgan Grampian, is claiming 12 monthly pre-tax profits of £2.2m, with turnover falling by a mere 1.5% to £81.9m.. What Camcorder, published by WV Publications, is to increase its frequency from bi-monthly to monthly… Continue reading Magazines Snippets..
Broadcast Data Systems (BDS) is shortly to introduce Radio Tracking Studies in the UK, based on those currently used in the US. Alistair Whitmore, of BDS, explained the concept and its application at yesterday’s Radio Fights Back conference.The idea was first developed in 1986 to record airplay, it has since been extended to measure ads… Continue reading Radio Fights Back – Tracking Studies
C4 Chairman, Sir Michael Bishop, has accused ITV of blatantly underselling C4 airtime between 1989 and 1992, as it became clear that C4 would be selling its own space from 1993. He questions the difficulty ITV appeared to have selling C4 airtime, considering the fact the channel was achieving nearly 20% share of viewing on… Continue reading ITV’s C4 Sales Effort Criticised
National Readership Surveys Ltd (NRS) has just released details of daily and weekly viewership of Teletext and Ceefax, giving top line data of January to March 1993. A summary of the net viewing is given below: All Adults 000’s % Unweighted Sample 9445 Estimated Pop. 15+ 45300 Net Ceefax BBC1&2 Used Yesterday 6725 15 Used… Continue reading Teletext & Ceefax Figures From NRS
The ITC Annual Report 1992, out today, gives the following revenue figures for ITV, C4, S4C and TV-am: 1991 1992 %Change ITV 1,344 1,411 5 C4 250 242 -3.2 ITV/C4 1,594 1,653 3.7 SC4 3.5 3 -14.3 TV-am 74 75 1.3 TOTAL 1,671.50 1,731 3.6 MediaTel’s combined ITV/C4 revenue for 1992, based on agency estimates,… Continue reading ITC Revenue Figure