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BSkyB has comfortably beaten market forecasts in its final quarter customer growth, adding 133,000 new subscribers and taking its customer base to 6.8 million, the group announced this morning. This is even higher than a revised and upgraded forecast from Lehman Brothers, which claimed that there would be 128,000 additions, ahead of the 100,000 market… Continue reading BSkyB Results Beat Market Expectations As Subs Hit 6.8m

BSkyB’s £1.02 billion deal to broadcast live Premiership football for a further three years could be investigated by the European Commission following concerns it breaches competition laws. The Premier League had structured the deal in accordance with the EC’s desire that the media rights be split into four separate packages to promote competition and encourage… Continue reading BSkyB’s Football Rights Deal Could Face Investigation

Analysts claim that the cable television company NTL is set to announce a major fund raising exercise that will net around $650 million and increase the possibility of a merger with UK rival Telewest. According to a report in The Observer, NTL is planning to ask shareholders to subscribe to new shares with the cash… Continue reading UK Cable Merger Still Viable

Trinity Mirror has rejected a fresh approach from Candover Investments, the private equity house, for its national newspapers, according to weekend press reports. The Observer claims that Candover, which made an informal offer for the titles late last year, has returned with a new proposal since the appointment of Sly Bailey as Trinity Mirror chief… Continue reading Candover Rebuffed In Latest Bid For Trinity Titles

Week on week analysis of the media sector reveals a strong performance from radio station operator and production company, UBC, which saw shares rise by 7.58% after announcing it had managed to boost commercial airtime revenues in June and July (see UBC Sees Radio Revenue Turnaround After Weak Start).BSkyB was also in focus, rising by… Continue reading Sharewatch: UBC Rises After Boost In Airtime Revenue

Almost 40% of companies are planning to increase their marketing and sales operations as business confidence returns to Britain, according to new research from the Chartered Institute Of Marketing (CIM).The latest Marketing Trends Survey suggests the economy has enjoyed a powerful boost since the end of the war in Iraq, with businesses predicting that a… Continue reading Survey Shows Business Confidence Is Returning To Britain

The Outdoor Advertising Association has today launched its biggest ever advertising campaign to promote the medium.The Proving Outdoor Works campaign, which has three executions all carrying the line ‘For Impact Posters Are Invincible’, has been created by AMV BBDO to demonstrate the power and effectiveness of outdoor advertising.The six-figure campaign is supported by the largest… Continue reading New Campaign Uses Pop Art To Promote Outdoor

ITV came out on top on Saturday night in the battle of the reality TV talent shows, as Pop Idol peaked with more than 2 million more viewers than its rival Fame Academy on BBC1.Audiences for the first instalment of the new series of Pop Idol, which saw the latest batch of hopefuls attempt to… Continue reading Pop Idol Comes Out Top Of Reality TV Talent Shows

The latest NRS figures for the six months to June 2003 reveal a less than impressive period for the Daily Mirror, which saw readership decline year on year to just below the 5 million mark.Trinity Mirror recently announced a raft of job cuts across the Daily Mirror‘s editorial division and closed its M and Look… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up – June 2003

Trinity Mirror has rejected a fresh approach from Candover Investments, the private equity house, for its national newspapers, according to weekend press reports.The Observer claims that Candover, which made an informal offer for the titles late last year, has returned with a new proposal since the appointment of Sly Bailey as Trinity Mirror chief executive.However,… Continue reading Candover Rebuffed In Latest Bid For Trinity Titles