ITV partners, Carlton and Granada, were in focus again yesterday after a note from leading brokers, Morgan Stanley, reiterated an underweight rating for the two groups.According to analysts, there are likely to be incremental costs if Carlton and Granada’s sales houses are spun off to enable their merger to go through. These are expected to… Continue reading Sharewatch: ITV Partners Fall On Negative Guidance
Channel Five has unveiled its autumn programming schedule, which features a new fly-on-the-wall series following the life of former boxer Chris Eubank.The At Home With The Eubanks show will be the lynchpin of the channel’s original programming and Five will also screen a special boxing match between Eubank and Nigel Benn.The popular ex-BBC2 show, Robot… Continue reading Five Banks On Reality For Autumn Schedule
Reed Elsevier today reported a 3% increase in pre-tax profits for the first half of 2003 and expressed confidence that full year revenue growth targets will be reached. The Anglo-Dutch publisher outperformed analysts’ expectations and the market as a whole partly as a result of a 4% rise in revenues at the science and medical… Continue reading Reed On Target As Profits Rise In H1
ITV advertising is expected to fall by 5.0% in September and by 3.2% in the full year, according to forecasts from Morgan Stanley. Other reports predict that the total TV market will return to a slight positive growth of 0.7% in September.Also On MediaTel Insight Today…Three-Way Battle For Mobile Football RightsVodafone and BSkyB have joined… Continue reading MediaTel Insight: ITV Revenues To Fall 3.2% In 2003, Says Morgan Stanley
The US hot-spot service market will be worth in excess of $800 million by 2007, according to a study by research firm Parks Associates. The findings are based on consumer surveys and interviews with service providers conducted for Public Hot Spots: Moving beyond Road Warriors, a recent report on the state of the Wi-Fi market… Continue reading Hot-Spot Service Revenues To Grow As Market Demand Increases
ITV Partners, Carlton and Granada, were seen in focus yesterday, up 2.29% and 1.52% respectively as bullish sentiment lifted key media stocks.Elsewhere, Telewest was seen under pressure, down 14.29% on continued negative sentiment in the telecoms sector.Meanwhile, the dotcom sector was given a boost after Lastminute.com reported it was on track to make its first… Continue reading Sharewatch: ITV Partners Rise On Positive Sentiment
ITV advertising is expected to fall by 5.0% in September and by 3.2% in the full year, according to forecasts from Morgan Stanley. Other reports predict that the total TV market will return to a slight positive growth of 0.7% in September. Commentators are talking of a continued cautiousness in the advertising market partly as… Continue reading ITV Revenues To Fall 3.2% In 2003, Says Morgan Stanley
The Advertising Standards Authority has slammed French Connection for an email campaign promoting its branded clothes and condoms.The email offered a free pack of condoms with the first 200 online orders for t-shirts, which contained the slogans “FCUK, If You Don’t Believe In Oral Sex Keep Your Mouth Shut”, “Practise Safe Sex Go FCUK Yourself”… Continue reading ASA Upholds Complaints Against Raunchy French Connection Ads
Figures compiled by Nielsen Media Research exclusively for NewsLine suggest that the difficult market conditions and the growing number of digital radio formats is helping to drive down advertising revenue at the UK’s most established national commercial radio stations.The data shows that Classic FM, which is the country’s most popular commercial station, with more than… Continue reading Feature: National Commercial Stations Feel The Squeeze
Guardian Media Group has agreed a deal to take full control of Trader Media Group, publisher of the car magazine AutoTrader.TMG which owns 70 publications in the UK and Ireland also has operations in Italy, Holland and South Africa.As the company is valued at £1.14 billion, GMG will pay almost £600 million for the 52%… Continue reading GMG Buys Up AutoTrader Publisher
