JCDecaux, Europe’s largest outdoor advertising contractor, has announced half-year results showing an 8.4% rise in net profits.Net earnings group share, before goodwill and exceptional items totalled E44.1 million, an increase from E40.7 million in the first six months of 2001. EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax depreciation and amortization) was maintained at E200.2 million compared with… Continue reading JCDecaux Bullish After H1 Profits Announcement
Nearly 6% of Europeans now have access to broadband services, up from 4% six months ago, according to a new survey from Forrester Research. This increase is partly due to the proliferation of high-speed services in the UK (see More Brits Switching To Broadband) where more than two million customers have now signed up. However,… Continue reading Broadband Catching On In Europe, Says Forrester
Dawn Airey, chief executive of Channel Five, has shocked the broadcasting industry by taking up an offer to join BSkyB as managing director of Sky Networks.It had been widely expected that Airey would join ITV as either chief executive, or as director of channels following the departure of David Liddiment (see Liddiment Quits ITV Director… Continue reading Airey’s Departure Represents Coup For BSkyB
A new survey from Ovum for the telecoms regulator, ODTR has revealed that 61% of Irish people own a PC and 49% have access to the internet. Of home internet users, 60% said they used dial-up modems, while 39% had used ISDN connections. 45% of those online had made a purchase over the internet from… Continue reading Ireland Set To Attain 50% Internet Penetration
Dawn Airey has announced that she is stepping down as cheif exective of Channel 5 and is to join BSkyB as managing director of Sky Networks.It had been widely expected that Airey would become ITV’s new director of channels following news of David Liddiment’s departure. However, it has been confirmed that she has agreed to… Continue reading Airey To Leave Channel Five For BSkyB
Approximately 56% of internet users in Europe will be shopping online by 2007, according to a new report from Jupiter Research. By the end of 2001, 36 million European consumers had shopped online, equivalent to 30% of the continent’s internet population and 9% of the total population. By 2007, the total online population is expected… Continue reading European Online Consumer Spending To Total E80 Billion By 2007
National press display advertising in the UK is ‘volatile and unpredictable’, according to the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT). The group says that revenue in this sector will be pretty much flat in the second half, resulting in a full year decline of around 9%.The group says that retail and travel advertising have remained… Continue reading Press Advertising Is ‘Volatile and Unpredictable’ says DMGT
GWR has appointed project-based advertising agency, do:, to co-ordinate outdoor activity for four of the largest radio stations on The Mix Network.The advertising, which will be carried across all conventional outdoor media and specially conceived ambient activity, will focus on Nottingham’s 96 Trent FM, the Black Country’s Beacon FM, Reading’s 2-Ten FM and Essex FM.Commenting… Continue reading GWR Appoints New Ad Agency To Work Across The Mix
Parents are demanding to have better information about the content of TV programmes to help them regulate their children’s viewing, according to the latest research from the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) and the Independent Television Commission (ITC).The study, Striking A Balance: The Control Of Children’s Media Consumption, examined parents attitudes on how to monitor what… Continue reading Parents Call For Tighter TV Classification
The ITC has announced it is to support the BBC’s preferred method of transmission for its free-to air digital terrestrial television service, Freeview.The ITC is amending its technical standards to favour fewer channels and better quality, in a move which could antagonise commercial broadcasters, who fear the reduced number of channels could lead to the… Continue reading ITC Set To Back Fewer Channels On Freeview
