THREE magazines published by Dundee-based DC Thomson are featured among the best-selling magazines in the UK; albeit they have each seen their sales drop slightly.
Says the Audit Bureau of Circulations, My Weekly, The People’s Friend and the Weekly News each appear in their magazine sales report, issued yesterday.
The print edition of My Weekly saw its average monthly sale for the six months up to the end of June stand at 106,351 – down 4.6 per cent on the average for the six months up to the end of December last year and down 5.4 per cent on the six months leading up to the end of June last year.
The corresponding figures for The People’s Friend and the Weekly News were: 229,848 (down 4.3 per cent and down 5.5 per cent) and 26,490 (down 8.3 per cent and down 12.3 per cent).
For the first time, the report included and identified digital editions (where applicable and not websites) as well as print.
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BEGINS the blurb, promoting this event at a Festival of Politics, kicking off today in Edinburgh: “What is the future of broadcasting in Scotland and the UK? Do more media outlets make for a healthier media sector and what are the implications of the Referendum for public service broadcasting in Scotland?”
Taking part at the event, on Sunday: journalists, Iain MacWhirter, David Torrance and Ruth Wishart, plus Dr Lynn Whitaker, lecturer in Cultural Industries and Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow.
Read more, here.
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BEGINS The Drum media and marketing magazine: “Marketers are uncertain about what impact the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum will have, it seems, following a panel session held during the Marketing Society Scotland’s Amplify [festival of marketing yesterday in Edinburgh].”
Read more, here.
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STARTS a story on the website, C21Media: “UK broadcaster, Channel 4, has commissioned a comedy about the forthcoming referendum on Scottish independence. Zodiak Media-owned Scottish prodco, The Comedy Unit, will make the one-off special, which has a working title Scotland in a Day.
“A self-shot ‘mockumentary’ comedy, Scotland in a Day is supposedly filmed on the day of the Scottish independence referendum, and designed to capture a snapshot of a nation on the brink of both triumph and disaster.”
Read more, here.
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