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Capital radio today announced that further commercial success opportunities could be created by acquiring new radio licenses this year. Revenues at the group rose by 4% to £59 million for the first half of this year, citing ten months of consecutive growth, though group profit only inched up by £100,000 on last year to £12.1… Continue reading Modest Revenue Improvements For Capital

Capital Radio today announced that further commercial success opportunities could be created by acquiring new radio licences this year.Revenues at the group rose by 4% to £59 million for the first half of this year, citing ten months of consecutive growth, though group profit only inched up by £100,000 on last year to £12.1 million.Capital… Continue reading Modest Revenue Improvements For Capital Radio

Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH), today announced that group revenue for the first half of this year has jumped by 10%, spurred on by strong press and radio performance throughout the period. Group turnover, for the period ending 31 March 2004, grew by 14% to £47.2 million, up from £41.5 million on the same period last… Continue reading Strong Radio And Press Revenue Spur On Profits At SRH

A single, industry-wide system for the measurement of electronic media looks set to be adopted across the continent following a landmark agreement by European Interactive Advertising Bureau.The IAB Europe’s strategy council has decided to accept the metrics that have already been in place in the UK and Ireland through the work of ABC Electronic, which… Continue reading Industry Moves Towards Single Online Measurement System

Recently launched pay-television service Top Up TV looks set to ape the success enjoyed by Freeview after revealing yesterday that it had signed up 20,000 subscribers in its first month.The digital terrestrial service, run by two former BSkyB executives, has a break-even target of 250,000, which it hopes to achieve by tapping into the subscriber… Continue reading Boost For Top Up TV As Subscriber Figures Revealed

Telecom operators are hoping that broadband will help them cash in on the new revenue streams being created by entertainment services, says IT research group, Analysys. One of the big attractions of rolling out broadband is to enter in the three main entertainment revenue sources; video on demand, audio and online games. However, Analysys said:… Continue reading Entertainment Unlikely To Be Profitable For Broadband Providers

Richard Desmond’s Express Newspapers has appointed Victoria Hazell, former advertisement manager at IPC Connect, as its group magazine controller with responsibility for a range of celebrity titles including OK!, New! and Star.The move will see Hazell charged with some of the company’s biggest brands, as well as the Daily Express and Sunday Express‘s magazine supplements.… Continue reading Express Plunders IPC For New Celebrity Magazine Head

Scottish Radio Holdings today announced that group revenue for the first half of this year has jumped by 10%, spurred on by strong press and radio performance throughout the period.Group turnover, for the period ending 31 March 2004, grew by 14% to £47.2 million, up from £41.5 million on the same period last year, with… Continue reading Strong Radio And Press Revenue Spur On Profits At SRH

The number of UK homes with access to multi-channel television reached 11.5 million in the first quarter of this year as the runaway success of Freeview continued to persuade viewers to make the switch from analogue.The latest Trends In Television Report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising shows the Government is making good progress… Continue reading Freeview Pushes UK Multi-Channel Homes To 11.5 Million

AOL has cut the cost of its broadband package for home users to below the £20 mark, in a move that further fuels the price war between internet providers vying for business at the low-cost end of the market.Both BT and Telewest have slashed prices in recent months in efforts to tempt custom away from… Continue reading AOL Raises The Stakes In Broadband Price War