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First quarter revenues at global outdoor advertising group JCDecaux declined by 1.6% to €352.9 million, driven down by currency movements, according to the company. After adjusting for foreign exchange, organic revenues increased by 2.6%, it said. The company’s strongest sector was billboards, which saw a 3.8% rise in revenue to €96.7 million. Markets in the… Continue reading JCDecaux Sees Challenging Ad Conditions As Q1 Revenues Dip 1.6%

High Definition Television (HDTV) is now firmly established in the mindset of US consumers although questions remain over the extent to which viewers will be willing to pay for enhanced programming. This is the inference to be drawn from a new survey by Dove Consulting. The research found that 13% of US consumers now have… Continue reading HDTV Attracts Premium Viewers, Says Report

Flextech Television has secured Hello! magazine as the sponsor of Loose Lips, a new daily talk show on LivingTV.The sponsorship, which comes into effect next month, will include break bumpers featuring a creative designed and produced in-house by Flextech’s Creative Services team.Hello! is hoping the sponsorship will give it exposure to a younger audience in… Continue reading Flextech Brings Hello To Loose Lips On Living TV

The Competition Commission today outlined a number of potentially key sticking points in the proposed merger of Carlton Communications and Granada into a single ITV company (see Carlton And Granada May Have To Sell Sales Houses). In letters to the two companies, the regulator laid down a number of hypothetical remedies which may open the… Continue reading ITV Merger ‘May Not Go Ahead’ Finds Morgan Stanley

The Competition Commission today outlined a number of potentially key sticking points in the proposed merger of Carlton Communications and Granada into a single ITV company. In letters to the two companies, the regulator laid down a number of hypothetical remedies which may open the way for the merger should it be found to be… Continue reading ITV Merger ‘May Not Go Ahead’ Finds Morgan Stanley

Omnicom Group, which owns the BBDO and TBWA advertising agencies, withstood uncertain advertising conditions to post a 12% increase in revenues for the first quarter of 2003. Net income remained flat at $128.6 million after severance costs related to layoffs in Omnicom’s European divisions were taken into account. However, this represented something of an achievement… Continue reading Omnicom Weathers The Storm In Q1

The Competition Commission has sent letters to Carlton and Granada indicating that they may have to sell their advertising sales houses if their proposed £2.6 billion merger is to go ahead.The letters, which are part of the Commission’s enquiry into the creation of a single ITV, contain a number of “hypothetical” remedies that could come… Continue reading Carlton And Granada May Have To Sell Sales Houses

Vivendi Universal, the indebted media giant, has confirmed that it is to sell its US entertainment assets in a bid to achieve financial stability. The French-based corporation posted losses of €23.3 billion in 2002 (see Vivendi Left Reeling By Staggering Losses), paying the penalty for the costly acquisition policy pursued by former chief executive, Jean… Continue reading Party Is Over For Vivendi

Text messaging reached an all time high in March with an average of 56 million SMS messages sent each day during the month, according to the latest figures from the Mobile Data Association (MDA).The total number of person to person text messages sent across the four UK GSM networks in March 2003 totalled 1.72 billion,… Continue reading Text Messaging Hits All Time High In March

The number of UK households with internet access increased by 1.6 million to 11.4 million during 2002, according to a new report from the Office of National Statistics.Also On MediaTel Insight Today…HDTV Attracts Premium Viewers, Says ReportHDTV is firmly established in the mindset of US consumers although questions remain over the extent to which viewers… Continue reading MediaTel Insight: Internet Usage Up 16% In 2002