The BBC has been criticised by the Broadcasting Standards Council for a number of its programmes which fell short of the acceptance barrier, in the eyes of the council.The final episode of Casualty shown recently (which attracted 17 million viewers) was excessively violent, according to the report. The highly successful One Foot in the Grave… Continue reading BBC Taken To Task By Council
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Hampshire – based Southern Radio, has announced pre-tax profits of £263,000 for the six months to the end of March 1993 – 59% up on the last period. Turn- over increased from £3.17m to £4.01m, with earnings per share growing from 49p to 62p.Southern Radio broadcasts to Hampshire, Kent, Sussex and the Isle of Wight.
Cut-backs in BBC programming budgets have been reflected all year in their consistently poor showing in BARB’s weekly top thirty programme rankings. The latest available rankings (w/e 9th May) tell the typical story with only two episodes of Eastenders making the top ten and a strong drama line up from ITV dominating with the likes… Continue reading BBC Struggling In Ratings Battle
Inflation has fallen to 1.3% with the Retail Price Index for April standing at 148.6 (taking 1985 as base rate). Last month’s figure is an increase of just 0.9% on March.
John Price is to become deputy editor of the Observer after the completion of the paper’s sale. Price, currently assistant editor and home editor for both the Independent and Independent on Sunday, will take over from Adrian Hamilton. Hamilton will remain at the Observer as leader page editor.No plans as to editorial changes for the… Continue reading New Deputy Editor For The Observer
19% of men watch television in a pub/ club each week on average (3.96 million), according to an out of home viewing report released by Sky this week. The most viewed channel is Sky Sports with 58% of men stating that their out of home viewing included this channel sometime in the past week. 54%… Continue reading Details Of Sky Ooh Survey
According to leaked figures from ITV’s financial director Granada’s net annual revenue share may have been over- estimated by 0.06%, equating to £1m in money terms.The implications for contractors are complex in as much as contributions to, and funding from, the Network Centre are all based on percentage share of revenue; for example percentage cuts… Continue reading Granada – Nar Share Over Estimation
Bartle Bogle Hegarty has recently conducted a study to examine the public’s attitudes to the BBC, revealing that consumers oppose the introduction of ads on the TV service.Research groups were split into three age brackets, 18-25, 26-35 and 36-50 and concentrated on heavy TV viewers in the BC1/C2D brackets.Results from the survey show that although… Continue reading BBH Examines Public Attitudes To BBC
F John French is to merge with SMS following a reverse takeover of Osprey Communications by SMS chief Jack Rubins .. Bartle Bogle Hegarty has this week released a client manifesto allowing all of its clients to audit any invoice relevant to its business. Agencies have dismissed the move as “a publicity stunt”.. Richard Webb… Continue reading Industry//Snippets..
The Radio Authority confirmed to MediaTel today that at least 2 new FM licences will be advertised for the London area in 1996.The band between 105 and 108 FM will become free in January 1996, this will provide frequencies for a minimum of 2 new stations.GLR CONSORTIUM TO BID FOR ILR LICENCEA consortium comprising a… Continue reading New Fm Licences For London