This week has seen economists offer their forecasts for 2005, with the consensus opinion looking forward to another year of steady economic global growth, driven by the market forces of the US and China. Unemployment is expected to fall gradually in the US and Asia, and Britain is predicted to stay at its current near-record… Continue reading Steady Economic Outlook For 2005

Teletext has signed a ten-year deal with commercial TV giant ITV to operate commercial and editorial text services across the broadcaster’s family of channels in digital homes.The new service will be branded ‘Teletext on ITV’ and will be accessible to viewers on all digital platforms. The service will launch on digital satellite and Freeview in… Continue reading ITV Signs Teletext For Digital Text Content

Newly established publishing house, Seven Publishing, has announced the acquisition of New Crane, the magazine publishing company founded by Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones, with interests including Sainsbury’s Magazine, Delia Smith’s book and magazine publishing business and a creative agency.The move expands Seven’s portfolio of titles, which includes food title Delicious and… Continue reading Seven Publishing Bags Delia’s Magazine Firm

Subscribers to MediaTel Group’s MediaTel Insight product can read of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ latest analysis into newspaper revenue forecasts and the predicted strengthening in the market.MediaTel Insight is the number one source for aggregated media and advertising forecast reports, research and analysis compiled from over 100 global sources.For a free trial of MediaTel Insight contact Ralph Simpson… Continue reading Newspaper Industry Predicted To Strengthen

Analyst Merrill Lynch has predicted that the American TV distributor Liberty Media share price, in 2005, will be driven by the highly anticipated potential deal with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. Liberty Media, owned by John Malone, holds 324.6 million News Corp NWS voting share, valued at $9.16 billion in total at current prices or $3.25… Continue reading Liberty Media And News Corp 2005 Outlook

Results from the Simultaneous Media Usage Survey (SIMM V) show television viewing to be down in the US, due to the consumption of more than one media at the same time. This phenomenon is continuing to grow, with TV appearing to be the medium most consumed alongside other media. Online market intelligence and internet market… Continue reading TV Viewing Down Due To Multi-Tasking

Growth prospects for newspaper publishers have been overlooked by industry forecasts, according to a new report by analysts PricewaterhouseCoopers. The recently published research acknowledges growth potential for revenue and profit levels. It pin-points the new young readership base born from the ‘rise’ of the free paper and increasing popularity of the compact as having positive… Continue reading Newspaper Industry Predicted To Strengthen

Cable provider Telewest Broadband has secured a raft of new channels, announcing the acquisition of broadcast licences with Channel 4, Eurosport, TV Travel Shop, The Community Channel and Teachers TV.The cable company has confirmed it will carry Channel 4’s new venture, More 4, when it becomes available as well as Teachers TV, a new channel… Continue reading Telewest Boosts Digital Channel Portfolio

NatMag-Rodale, the joint venture created between The National Magazine Company and Rodale International in May 2004, has appointed Rita Lewis as its first managing director.Lewis is a leading figure in the British magazine industry, having held senior positions at Emap, IPC and, most recently, as publishing director at Hachette Filipacchi. The move will see her… Continue reading NatMag-Rodale Poaches Hachette Director As First MD

The Financial Times has announced the appointment of Michael Rzesnitzek as managing director of the newspaper’s operations in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa.Rzesnitzek, a German national who studied in the UK and France, is currently managing director of FT Deutschland, a paper launched 5 years ago by the Financial Times and Gruner &… Continue reading Financial Times Recruits New Managing Director