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The proportion of Western European households receiving digital television (DTV) is expected to rise from 19% in 2003 to 42% by 2008, according to a report from IMS Research. The group says a more positive outlook for the European DTV market is now beginning to emerge, despite past failures of digital terrestrial pay-TV services and… Continue reading European Digital TV Market Recovery Underway, Says IMS

The pay-TV sector in Western Europe was worth almost â‚Ź20 billion in 2003 and is expected to grow by 23% to â‚Ź24 billion by 2006, according to a report from Screen Digest. The European Digital Pay TV Revenues report forecasts that during the same period the number of pay-TV subscribers will rise by only 10%,… Continue reading Western European Pay-TV Revenue To Rise 23% By 2006

BSkyB was seen in focus yesterday rising by 1.17% to close at 776p as investors welcomed a significant rise in interim net profits and plans to resume dividend payments for the first time in five years (see BSkyB’s Good Run Continues With First Half Results).WPP was also in the spotlight, recovering early loses to climb… Continue reading Sharewatch: BSkyB Buoyed By Rise In Interim Net Profits

Today’s consumer magazine ABCs for the six months to December 2003 are expected to show the huge growth sector of recent times – celebrity weeklies – began to slow down in the last half of the year.Volumes across the sector – which includes stalwart Hello and Northern & Shell’s upstart New – are expected to… Continue reading ABCs Expected To Show Slowdown For Celebrity Titles

After 12pm today the concurrent release of ABC’s consumer magazine figures for the period July to December 2003 will be available to subscribers in MediaTel’s Press database. During Thursday 12 and Friday 13 February NewsLine will feature a series of sector reports based on these figures. The following notes refer to the criteria used to… Continue reading Important Notes: ABC July – December 2003

The BBC is calling on the television industry to work with communications regulator Ofcom to develop a method of overcoming the current obsession with viewing figures.BBC controller, Jane Root, claims that ratings do not paint a complete picture and is urging broadcast regulators to devise a new measurement system capable of challenging the dominance of… Continue reading BBC Urges Industry To Overcome Obsession With Ratings

Difficult market conditions for European outdoor advertising were revealed in JCDecaux’s financials this morning, as full-year revenues dipped by 2.2%. The Paris-based global outdoor contractor said that street furniture revenues were down 0.4%, whilst revenue from billboard and transport advertising fell by 3.4% and 5.3% respectively. However, the overall 2.2% fall was better than the… Continue reading JCDecaux Revenues Dip In 2003, But Beat Expectations

A number of industry bodies have come together to develop new contracts to help simplify the agreements between advertisers and agencies when designing and maintaining websites.The new model contract has been drawn up by ISBA, the IPA and New Media Knowledge, which represents web developers. It is intended to allow advertisers and their agencies develop… Continue reading Industry Comes Together To Simplify Web Contracts

Emap Advertising has appointed Carrie Barker as its new magazine sales director with responsibility for leading a 150-strong team working across a portfolio of 30 consumer titles.Barker, who takes up the position in early April, will over see the entire magazine sales division, which comprises the display, inserts, creative solutions and classified advertising teams.She will… Continue reading Emap Advertising Appoints New Head Of Magazine Sales

The Newspaper Marketing Agency has confirmed that advertising revenue figures for national newspapers will be published on a monthly basis in an attempt to make the medium more accountable.NMA chief executive, Maureen Duffy, has persuaded both the Advertising Association and all the national newspapers to provide revenue figures for display and classified advertising on a… Continue reading National Newspapers To Publish Monthly Revenue Figures