ITV’s Pop Idol is expanding its interactive applications to enable viewers to vote for contestants via their remote controls for the first time.Fans of the reality-TV talent show will be able to access a range of interactive content and a number of games created by Littlewoods Game On. The new services will be available on… Continue reading Pop Idol Expands Interactive Applications
Following an extensive bidding process, the satellite broadcaster BSkyB has secured exclusive live television rights to Premiership football for a further three years in separate deals totalling £1.024 billion. The free to air highlights package has been awarded to the BBC for £105 million, paving the way for the return of Match Of The Day… Continue reading BSkyB And BBC Big Winners In Premiership Bidding Contest
Trinity Mirror is on track to achieve its objective of £25 million of annualised savings by 2005, following a spate of cutbacks throughout the company, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. The broker asserts that Sly Bailey’s appointment as chief executive (see Bailey Leaves IPC To Replace Graf At Trinity Mirror) has stimulated activity at… Continue reading Trinity To Reap Rewards Of Cost-Cutting, Says Merrill Lynch
Radio station operator and production company, UBC Media, said that it has managed to boost commercial airtime revenues in June and July, after taking ‘remedial action’ earlier in the year. In June, UBC said that airtime sales for the first two months of its financial year were below expectations (see UBC Moves Into Profit In… Continue reading UBC Sees Radio Revenue Turnaround After Weak Start
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 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
Rupert Howell, the former founding partner of HHCL & Partners, is to become president of McCann-Erickson’s Europe, Middle East and Africa group and chairman of the UK and Ireland group.The appointment ends weeks of speculation and will see Howell take a place on the McCann-Erickson Worldwide board. He replaces Ben Langdon who was ousted from… Continue reading Howell To Head Up McCann-Erickson Europe
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 unit,… Continue reading Reed On Target As Profits Rise In H1
Hitwise has launched a new search marketing analysis product to monitor how consumers use 70 of the world’s most popular search engines.The new product, entitled Search Terms, reports on over 60,000 of the most popular websites worldwide, across the top 70 global search engines. The product revels which keywords are successfully typed into search engines,… Continue reading Hitwise Launches New Search Monitoring Product
