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Specialist magazine publisher, Future, has warned investors that the market remains challenging, with recent conditions holding back prospects for the current financial year to September 2006. Bearing this in mind, the board expects that profit for 2006 will suffer a decline of bewteen £4 and £5 million. This loss steams from a poor performance in… Continue reading Future Warns Challenging Market Will Continue

Capital Radio has secured Thorpe Park as the six-figure sponsor of its drive time show, fronted by Richard Bacon, for the six months from 13 March to 8 September.The deal will see the theme park receive coverage on the show’s “Friday Feature,” two drive time promotions and two outside broadcasts.Aired between 5pm and 8pm, the… Continue reading Capital Signs Thorpe Park For Bacon Sponsorship

BBC Two’s new series of The Apprentice put in a strong performance last night, drawing 3.8 million adult viewers on average, topped only by ITV1’s film, About A Boy, which pipped the BBC show by 13,000.BBC One displayed a less impressive schedule for the night, meanwhile, with chat show Davina drawing a disappointing 2.3 million… Continue reading BBC Two’s Apprentice Presents Challenge To ITV

The average internet user now spends the equivalent of 41 days online each year, according to research by TNS, outweighing the average amount of time spent watching TV.The statistics were gathered in partnership with internet search giant Google, and underline the increasing importance of online media to Britain’s consumers.According to the findings, the average British… Continue reading Research Shows The Internet More Popular Than TV

Speaking at the MediaTel INSIGHT Online Media Seminar, held yesterday in conjunction with the MediaGuardian, key industry figures called for a common planning currency for the internet.Giles Ivey, sales director of AOL, commented that there was “no measurement bible currently in place for online” and asserted the need for this issue to be addressed within… Continue reading Seminar Calls For Common Online Measurement Currency

The unstoppable rise of the internet and its affect on traditional media engaged panellists and delegates at yesterday’s, MediaTelINSIGHT Online Media Seminar, with Giles Ivey, sales director for AOL, claiming that “no-one in new media thinks TV and press are dead.”Despite recent panic, with forecasters predicting online to take adspend away from traditional media, Ivey… Continue reading Online Seminar Argues Traditional Media Still Strong

The MediaTel INSIGHT Online Media Seminar, held yesterday in association with MediaGuardian earmarked the internet’s increasing presence in the media mix and it’s surge in popularity.Globally internet penetration has increased by 182% since 2000, with a current penetration rate of 15.7%. Looking at the different markets, uptake rates vary, with penetration in the US placed… Continue reading Internet Penetration Makes Its Mark

ITV has appointed TV mogul Duncan Gray, the man behind The Big Breakfast and Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway as its new controller of entertainment ahead of a push for more successful content.Gray will now return to the UK from Los Angeles to take up the role, commissioning and developing ITV’s stable of entertainment… Continue reading ITV Signs Entertainment Guru As New Controller

The unstoppable rise of the internet and its affect on traditional media engaged panellists and delegates at yesterday’s, MediaTelINSIGHT Online Media Seminar, with Giles Ivey, sales director for AOL, claiming that “no-one in new media thinks TV and press are dead.” Despite recent panic, with forecasters predicting online to take adspend away from traditional media,… Continue reading Online Seminar Argues Traditional Media Still Strong

Speaking at the MediaTel INSIGHT Online Media Seminar, held yesterday in conjunction with the MediaGuardian, key industry figures called for a common planning currency for the internet. Giles Ivey, sales director of AOL, commented that there was “no measurement bible currently in place for online” and asserted the need for this issue to be addressed… Continue reading Seminar Calls For Common Online Measurement Currency