The NewsLine team would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We will be taking a break over the festive season, but will return on 5 January with the latest media news and comment.Early in the New Year we will bring you the final figures for 2003 from… Continue reading Merry Christmas From The NewsLine Team
Nicola Clark, assistant editor at NewsLine for the last 18 months, is leaving the company this afternoon. Nicky has been a valuable member of the team and above all was great fun to work with. We all wish her the very best in her new job.Thanks for all your hard work Nicky…
The Chancellor of the Exchequer’s new measure of inflation, the Consumer Price Index, has come into force, in a move that will see the UK move below target.The CPI, which excludes housing and council tax costs, currently stands a 1.4%, which is well below the 2% target set by Gordon Brown in the pre-Budget report… Continue reading Chancellor Brings In New Inflation Measure
Wireless gaming is set to become a mass-market phenomenon in the US, with a third of wireless subscribers expected to be gaming by 2008, according to a new report from IDC. The group forecasts that the number of wireless gamers will rise from 7.9% of all subscribers in 2003 to 34.7%, or 65.2 million users,… Continue reading Wireless Gaming To Hit Mass Market In The US
The NewsLine team would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We will be taking a break over the festive season, but will return on 5 January with the latest media news and comment.Early in the New Year we will bring you the final figures for 2002 from… Continue reading Merry Christmas From The NewsLine Team
JanuaryFigures from Thomson Intermedia provided something of a sobering start to the new year by showing that television adspend dropped by 5.7% during 2002 to just over £3.7 billion as the difficult economic conditions continued to cast their shadow over the industry (see More Than £3.5bn Spent On TV Advertising Last Year). Things were more… Continue reading NewsLine End Of Year Round-Up: Television
As 2003 draws to a close, James Papworth, ad marketing manager at IPC Prospector, looks back at an important year for the media industry, which was rocked by the war in Iraq, the birth of the Government’s long-awaited Communications Act and the clearance of the ITV merger.Almost a year ago, in this very column, I… Continue reading NewsLine Column: An Important Year For UK Media
JanuaryThe New Year heralded a flurry of activity in the press sector and News International began 2003 with the news that David Yelland had quit as editor of the Sun, to be replaced by News of the World editor, Rebekah Wade (see Yelland Quits As Editor Of The Sun). The move triggered a round of… Continue reading NewsLine End Of Year Round-Up: Press
JanuaryJanuary was a gloomy start for the new media market following news that AOL Time Warner had elected Dick Parsons to both the post of chairman and chief executive, following the departure of Steve Case. Analysts suggested the decision reflected a shift in the balance of power within the company away from new media, as… Continue reading NewsLine End Of Year Round-Up: New Media
JanuaryDigital radio got off to a flying start in 2003 with figures from the Digital Radio Development Bureau showing that sales of DAB digital radios increased by 165% in 2002 and look set to more than double in the coming months (see Sales Of DAB Digital Radios Boom In 2002). Meanwhile, Virgin Radio announced plans… Continue reading NewsLine End Of Year Round-Up: Radio
