Emap Performance is to broadcast all six of its music channels on NTL Digital in Ireland, in the first international deal of its kind for the company.The channels, which were previously only available in Ireland through Sky Digital, will launch later this month meaning that The Box, Kiss TV, QTV, Smash Hits, Kerrang TV and… Continue reading Emap TV Increases Digital Viewers With NTL Deal
ABC consumer magazine figures for the January-June 2002 period have brought the news which must have been dreaded at the National Magazine Company ever since Condé Nast’s Glamour made its spectacular entrance to the market. Cosmopolitan, top dog among the women’s glossies for much of its thirty year history, has been toppled by its diminutive… Continue reading ABC: Cosmopolitan Beaten By Glamour
Unlicensed file sharing services will continue to thrive until record labels allow internet users to download music legitimately, according to a new report from The Yankee Group. Consumers aged 14 and above downloaded 5.16 billion audio files in the US via unlicensed file-sharing services such as KaZaa, Morpheus and LimeWire in 2001. This is set… Continue reading Unlicensed Music Downloads To Peak In 2005, Says Yankee Group
After 5pm today the concurrent release of ABC’s consumer magazine figures for the period January to June 2002 will be available to subscribers in MediaTel’s Press database. During Friday 16 August NewsLine will feature a series of sector reports based on these figures. The following notes refer to the criteria used to compile these reports:The… Continue reading Important Notes: ABC Jan-Jun 2002
The 2002/2003 World Magazine Trends report from FIPP/Zenith Optimedia, to be released next month, offers an assessment and outlook of magazine publishing industries in key markets around the world. Regional summaries are given here. Europe Europe’s magazine ad market fell in 2001, and is likely to fall again in 2002, but overall it should suffer… Continue reading World Magazines Outlook From FIPP/Zenith
Viacom Outdoor has announced the appointment of Rashim Abraham to the newly created role of engineering and Technical Director. His brief will include working alongside the XTP team, once a new project supplier is secured and liaising with London Underground regarding technical matters. He will also take charge of new product and site development across… Continue reading Viacom Reiterates Commitment To New Technologies
AOL Time Warner has admitted for the first time that some of the revenues at its America Online division could have been wrongly attributed. The company said in a statement that three payments totalling $49 million may have been “improperly recognised” as advertising revenue. The transactions took place between the last quarter of 2000 and… Continue reading AOL Identifies Accounting Irregularities
Despite the well documented failures of ITV Digital and Quiero, European consumers will spend E13.4 billion on digital and interactive television services in 2002, an increase of 31% over last year, according to Strategy Analytics. Interactive Digital TV Market Forecast – Europe is produced by the Broadband Entertainment Strategies (BES) service of SA and examines… Continue reading Advanced Television Services Set To Take Off
The Financial Times has secured Renault Trucks as the sole advertiser for its new tabloid supplement, The Premiership.The 16-page colour supplement, which launches today, will be published with Thursday’s FT and will include analysis and interviews with the Premiership’s top players and managers, as well as reports from other European football leagues.Euan Harron, marketing director… Continue reading FT Signs Renault Trucks For New Football Supplement
Net loss at News Corp hit $1.7 billion for the fourth quarter, up considerably on the $265 million loss of the same period the previous financial year; full year loss rose from $445 million to $6.3 billion. Net profit fell by 8.0% to $636 million for the year. Excluding write-downs, revenues increased 10.0% to $15.2… Continue reading Write-Downs Hammer News Corp Figures
