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Emap has said in a trading update this morning that group revenues for the first half of this year are expected to be up 2%, with celebrity gossip magazine Closer being cited as a key driver.Emap’s consumer media division, which includes Closer, is expected to be up 6% year-on-year for the six months ending 30… Continue reading Success Of Closer Helps Drive Revenues At Emap

Kelvin MacKenzie’s Wireless Group, which owns the national talkSPORT radio station, has branded RAJAR’s proposals to introduce electronic measurement by 2007 as “excruciatingly longwinded”.The broadcaster claims that RAJAR’s timeline for upgrading its existing diary system of audience measurement could have been put in place four years ago when it first began campaigning for the introduction… Continue reading Wireless Group Slams RAJAR’s Roadmap To Change

Capital Radio Group has said that it is ‘cautious’ about the outcome for radio advertising in October to December, despite radio continuing to outperform the display advertising market.In a trading update issued this morning ahead of full-year results due on 25 November 2005, the group said radio revenues for the third quarter are forecast to… Continue reading Capital Radio Cautious Over Fourth Quarter Results

Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH), has said that an ‘excellent’ performance in radio and press has fuelled 2004 expectations and the group now predicts full-year revenues to be a healthy 9% ahead of last year.In a trading update issued this morning, the group said like-for-like radio revenues are estimated to be up 9% for the twelve… Continue reading SRH Confident Of Revenues Growing By 9% In 2004

ITV1 is planning to drop its celebrity idents as part of a rebrand timed to coincide with the launch of ITV3, its new digital channel for older viewers, later this year.The broadcaster has used a range of its biggest stars to promote its flagship ITV1 brand for the last two years. However, the celebrity idents… Continue reading ITV To Drop Celebrity Idents As Part Of Rebrand

Freeview will continue as the fastest growing multi-channel platform until the end of next year, but this will not be enough to knock Sky from the top-spot as the most dominant force in the market, according to a new study.Continental Research’s Autumn 2004 Digital TV Report claims that Freeview will attract a further 1.4 million… Continue reading Sky On Track To Reach 8 Million Homes By 2005

Britain has emerged as one of the fastest growing markets for broadband internet access, with new research showing that by the end of 2005 there will be more than 8.2 million broadband subscribers in the UK. The latest figures from Informa Telecoms Group’s Baskerville unit show that nearly 5.6 million of these will be connected… Continue reading One In Five UK Homes Now Have Broadband Access

Freeview, the BBC backed free-to-air digital television service, will be the fastest growing platform until 2005, according to new research, however, this will not be enough to knock Sky from the top-spot as the most dominant force in the UK multichannel television market. Continental Research’s Autumn 2004 Digital TV Report said that over the next… Continue reading Sky On Track To Reach Murdoch’s Target Of 8m Homes By 2005

The number of people visiting the cinema is expected to grow by 3.1% to 8.5 billion this year, while box office admissions increase by 4.7% to $22.8 billion, says a new report from Informa Media Group. According to the 7th edition of the Global Film: Exhibition & Distribution report, the number of new blockbusters has… Continue reading Global Cinema Recovery Expected In 2004

The viewing habits of older consumers look set to change considerably over the next few years as they continue to embrace multi-channel television, according to new research from ZenithOptimedia. The wide-ranging study into the media consumption habits of the over fifties shows that golden oldies are emerging as enthusiastic consumers of multi-channel television thanks to… Continue reading Older Viewers Embrace Multi-Channel Television