Granada today announced full-year losses of £164 million but the commercial broadcaster was encouraged by results in the second half and remains confident about the future of ITV.The company announced that pre-tax profits for the year to late-September came in at £176 million, 10% less than in 2001, but ahead of many analysts forecasts.The collapse… Continue reading Granada Unbowed Despite Fall In Profits
Research consultancy BMRB has launched a survey which aims to give media agencies and broadcasters a greater understanding of interactive TV audiences.The survey, Audience Interaction Monitor (AIM), will be completed by two thousand adults, including Sky Digital, cable digital and Freeview viewers. There will be questions on pay-per-view, interactive services like shopping, gaming and email,… Continue reading BMRB To Undertake Research Into Interactive Audiences
Ambient media is now worth in excess of £100 million and with an increasing number of options available within the sector, Rick Weir, marketing director of Hi-Tech Solutions, explains why advertisers need look no further than washroom media.The ambient media market place is huge. According to Concord, it’s worth over £100m and there are in… Continue reading NewsLine Column: The Secrets Behind Selecting Ambient
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has unveiled a wide-ranging plan which aims to double the size of the online advertising market in two years. According to IAB’s managing director, Danny Meadows-Klue, there is a vast disparity between the share of advertising budgets spent on the internet and the size of internet audiences. In an attempt… Continue reading IAB Plans To Double Internet Ad Spend In Two Years
Carlton Communications has reported continuing pre-tax profits up by 76% to £53.3 million, although losses after tax and including discontinued operations stood at £156 million, down 60% year on year. The majority of losses came from the closure of the ITV Digital business, jointly owned with Granada.The company also indicated that advertising conditions are strengthening,… Continue reading Carlton Sees Improving Ad Trading As Loss Hits £156m
Advertising volumes at United Business Media’s (UBM) US technology publishing division, CMP Media, fell by 20% in October, after a 3.6% increase during September (see Hi-Tech Publishing Ad Decline Eases Slightly In September). However, the decline is exaggerated given that there were five weeks in October during 2000 and 2001, but only four weeks this… Continue reading CMP Figures Show Continuing Weakness In Hi-Tech Advertising
UK cinema admissions for October totalled 13.4 million and averaged over 3 million admissions a week, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA).Whilst this represents no change on the same period last year, the January to October 2002 period is up 13% year on year, with a total of 142.5 million… Continue reading October Cinema Admissions Hold Level
Pan-European broadcaster, RTL Group, is proposing to cancel the admission of its shares to the official list of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange. In a statement released to shareholders this morning, the group said it expects that the delisting in London will become effective on 31 December 2002.
UK television is currently undergoing fundamental change as it is forced to react to the advance of technology and twenty-first century viewing habits. Predicting the future is no easy task but a new report has outlined some of the challenges faced by the industry and speculates on how the broadcasting landscape will look in the… Continue reading Insight Analysis: TV Industry Looks To The Future
The biannual Media Research Group Conference takes place in Budapest later this week to examine the subject of media research in an ever-changing media environment.Speakers at the event, which runs from Wednesday 27 until Friday 29 November, include chief strategic officer at Publicis Derek Morris; COI head of research Jeremy Found; BSkyB’s head of client… Continue reading Conference To Examine Changing Face Of Media Research
