After a week of delays, the BBC and BSkyB have finally reached an agreement with the Football Association over a new four-year television rights deal for England international games and the FA Cup.The deal, rumoured to be worth up to £300 million between the 2004/2005 and the 2007/2008 seasons, will see all of England’s home… Continue reading BBC And BSkyB Announce FA Cup Football Rights Deal
BT has revealed an increase in the demand for high-speed internet access across the UK, which will help to speed-up its drive to bring broadband to 90% of homes and businesses. The telecoms giant is to introduce 56 new exchanges into its broadband upgrade programme and plans to launch 500 new broadband exchanges over the… Continue reading BT Reveals Increasing Demand For Broadband
MediaCom and Carat are the agencies most admired by media owners for their all round professionalism and commercial performance, according to new research from strategy group Ocean Consulting.Between May and June this year the latest Media Agency Monitor surveyed top-level executives at virtually all of the UK’s major consumer media owners to gauge their views… Continue reading MediaCom And Carat Identified As Most Admired Agencies
Future Network, the specialist consumer magazine publisher, has reported a 7% increase in turnover for the first five months of 2003 with growth occurring in both circulation and advertising.Since May’s AGM, steady progress has been maintained with revenues from circulation up by 8% while advertising revenue rose 5%.The computer games sector was particularly dynamic with… Continue reading Gaming Points Way Ahead For Future Network
Granada has persuaded Mini to follow up its sponsorship of ITV1’s Cold Feet with a six figure deal to sponsor a major new drama series called Between The Sheets.The deal, negotiated by Leigh Moscrip at Granada Enterprises and Matthew Platts at Vizeum, includes a range of sponsorship credits and break bumpers around each episode of… Continue reading New ITV Sponsorship Puts Mini Between The Sheets
NatMags’ flagship women’s glossy, Company, is to feature a special supplement dedicated to high street shopping, entitled Shop!, which may become a standalone title in its own right.The new handbag sized supplement will be included in this month’s edition of Company magazine and will contain 100 pages of advertising and editorial. A second edition of… Continue reading Company Introduces New Dedicated Shopping Supplement
Emap is on track to meet end of year targets, with healthy revenues flowing into the company, according to chairman Adam Broadbent. The cross-media corporation held its AGM today and there was general satisfaction at performance in the year to date. Broadbent said that Emap had been “performing reasonably well” given the state of the… Continue reading Emap In Line To Meet Full-Year Expectations
Results from the Expenditure and Food Survey issued this week show that there were 11.7 million online homes by the end of March 2003. This represents an increase of 1.2 million year on year and means that 47% of UK households now have access to the web.Also On MediaTel Insight Today…US Consumers Still Cold On… Continue reading MediaTel Insight: UK Internet Penetration Approaches 50%
Future Network, the specialist consumer magazine publisher, has reported a 7% increase in turnover for the first five months of 2003 with growth occurring in both circulation and advertising. Since May’s AGM (see Future Lifted By Bright Start To Year), steady progress has been maintained with revenues from circulation up by 8% while advertising revenue… Continue reading Gaming Points Way Ahead For Future Network
WPP was seen in focus yesterday, down 0.78%, on reports that the takeover panel, City Regulator, is to investigate the share dealings of Nahed Ojjeh, the Syrian chess promoter who has bought over a tenth of Cordiant Communications, potentially scuppernong WPP’s takeover bid for the group (see Mystery As Chess Queen Raises Cordiant Stake).Elsewhere, Reuters… Continue reading Sharewatch: WPP Falters On Cordiant Investigation
