ITV Digital could face imminent closure if a lower offer for media rights is not accepted by the Football League today, according to reports in today’s national press. The troubled digital TV platform was meant to pay around £180m over for the rights to screen Nationwide League football games, but now, faced with financial pressure,… Continue reading Football League Rejection Could Close ITV Digital

KirchMedia and ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG have announced that they will terminate discussions on the merger, proposed in September 2001. In a joint release, the companies stated that “in light of the economic climate and the current situation of KirchGruppe the merger is not feasible in the foreseeable future”. The statement continued: “The two companies will… Continue reading KirchMedia And ProSiebenSat.1 Abandon Merger

Capital Radio this morning released a trading update which forecasts that the advertising market will remain under pressure for the remainder of the year. Between October and December 2001, Capital revealed that like for like radio revenue was down 9% against the same quarter in the previous year. The company anticipates that revenue will have… Continue reading Capital Warns That Market Will Remain ‘Under Pressure’

ITV advertising revenues at Granada fell by 12% during the six months to March 2002, with March forecast to be down by 6% and April by 13%, according the company’s AGM statement released this morning. A return to growth, of 9%, is predicted for May, but Granada warns that whilst this is positive, it may… Continue reading ITV Revenues Down 12% In H1, Visibility Still Limited

The Italian advertising market declined by 7.6% during January, with all media showing negative trends, according to ACNielsen data analysed by ABN Amro. The Italian market was one of the last European advertising markets to succumb to the weakening ad environment in 2001 (see Once Strong Italian Ad Market Now Shows Downward Trend). The January… Continue reading Italian Ad Market Declines 7.6% In January

ITV advertising revenues at Granada fell by 12% during the six months to March 2002, with March forecast to be down by 6% and April by 13%, according the company’s AGM statement released this morning. A return to growth, of 9%, is predicted for May, but Granada warns that whilst this is positive, it may… Continue reading ITV Revenues Down 12% In H1, Visibility Still Limited

New research suggests that traditional classified advertising is losing out to online recruitment sites with a huge number of people looking to the internet to find employment. According to eMarketer, a recent survey which polled more than 36,000 residents of the European Union, Iceland and Norway, including both internet users and non-users, found that 30.2%… Continue reading Online Jobs Boom Signals Gloom For Classifieds

Email has officially become more popular than post, says Net Value, with the number of emails being sent and received from UK households exceeding letters by nearly 300 million in January 2002. NetValue reported that more than 452 million emails were sent and received by British homes in January in addition to more than 100… Continue reading Email Now ‘More Popular Than Post’ Says Net Value

Almost 9% of the worldÂ’s population now has access to the internet according to a report compiled by Nua. Based on data collected from various sources, Nua estimate that the global internet audience had grown to 544.2 million users by the end of February 2002. An increase of 30.79 million users since August 2001 when… Continue reading Global Online Population Continues To Grow

Despite falling from the ‘heady days’ of triple-digit growth, internet advertising still outpaced the rest of the UK media industry last year, rising 28% year on year, according to a brief released by Forrester Research this week. The latest statistics from Evaliant’s AdWatch ad tracking service show that the overall UK online advertising market reached… Continue reading UK Online Advertising Grows 28% In 2001