The BBC has moved to silence those that have criticised its commitment to public service broadcasting, with the launch of a £220 million season of historical programming on BBC1 this autumn.The new schedule is designed to offer audiences an opportunity to consider new perspectives on historic, social and personal situations through a range of landmark… Continue reading BBC Travels Back In Time With £220m Autumn Schedule
Profits at United Business Media (UBM) made a surprise jump of 12% in the first half of the year as a result of a stabilisation in revenue trends and improvements in some markets in the US. The group said that revenues in the US have been broadly stable in the last four quarters and this… Continue reading UBM Profits Rise 12% In H1, Ahead Of Expectations
Food marketers have again come under fire after a damning report from the Food Commission claimed that the £15 billion spent globally on advertising junk food to children is putting their health at risk.The report claims that for every 70p spent by the World Heath Organisation on preventing the diseases caused by junk food, the… Continue reading Advertisers Charged With Endangering Children’s Health
Profits at United Business Media made a surprise jump of 12% in the first half of the year as a result of a stabilisation in revenue trends and improvements in some markets in the US.The group said that revenues in the US have been broadly stable in the last four quarters and this coupled with… Continue reading UBM Profits Rise 12% In H1, Ahead Of Expectations
Telewest shareholders can expect to receive only 1.5% of the firm’s equity once restructuring is completed, the cable company has announced.Following in-depth negotiations, it has been agreed that bondholders will get 98.5% of Telewest shares. A deal by which they would have received 97% of the equity was previously rejected as insufficient.“Telewest confirms that it… Continue reading Telewest To Reduce Shareholder Stake
Capital Radio has restructured its senior management team and has put veteran programming executive, Keith Pringle, in charge of its flagship London station in a bid to increase listening.The restructure will see Pringle move from his current role as group programme director to the newly created position of managing director of 95.8 Capital FM. The… Continue reading Capital Shakes Up Management To Win Back Listeners
Hachette Filipacchi’s young women’s title B is to feature a special edition of OK magazine in a unique promotion designed to raise the profile of both titles.The September edition of B magazine will include an 84-page edition of Northern and Shell’s veteran celebrity title OK, in an attempt to cash in on the current obsession… Continue reading Hachette Teams With OK Magazine For Special Promotion
ITV partners Carlton and Granada are considering plans to create a division to combine their regional, national and international news operations as part of their proposed £2.6 billion merger.The news operation would sit alongside separate departments for production and broadcasting due to be outlined later this year in an official merger document on the structure… Continue reading Carlton And Granada Plan To Integrate News Operations
US newspaper advertising revenues rose by approximately 2% in the second quarter of the year, according to an analysis of newspaper publishers’ results by Merrill Lynch. All but one newspaper group have reported figures for the quarter to June and the consensus of 2% growth shows a marginal improvement over the Q1 rise of 1.5%… Continue reading US Newspaper Advertising Shows Slow Growth
First half revenues fell by 3% at Pearson, partly as a result of continuing weak advertising conditions at its Financial Times newspaper, the group said today.Reporting a decline in pre-tax profits from £26 million in H1 2002 to a loss of £1 million this time, Pearson said that there were ongoing tough trading conditions in… Continue reading Pearson Revenues Drop As Ad Bite Continues At FT
