Twelve new FM commercial radio licences will be issued next year, the Radio Authority has announced. The licences, for areas including Cornwall and the West Midlands are likely to be the last issued by the authority before its powers transfer to the new communications regulator, Ofcom.The new licences are likely to be advertised at the… Continue reading Radio Authority To Offer 12 New FM Licences In 2003
There are small signs of recovering confidence amongst advertisers in the US, but they have yet to translate into any significant recovery in media spending, Aegis chairman Lord Sharman told the company’s AGM today. He added that market research spending is showing a modest improvement, helping to reduce the pressure felt on Aegis’ US market… Continue reading Aegis Cautious On Media Recovery, Europe Remains ‘Depressed’
The Independent will publish four extra supplements in addition to its usual six section package this Saturday, thanks to a series of sponsorship deals worth over £600,000 to the newspaper. One section will include the largest advertising site seen in a national newspaper, in the form of an 8 page broadsheet double gatefold for Renault.The… Continue reading Independent Strikes £600,000 Of Supplement Deals
ITV giants, Carlton Communications and Granada, will need to offer investors a new plan following the closure of their ITV Digital business last month (see Administrators Switch Off ITV Digital), according to analysts at Lehman Brothers. The broker says that part of this new game plan should be the strengthening of the core ITV channel… Continue reading Carlton And Granada Need ‘A New Plan’, Say Lehman Analysts
AFX News reports that the Guardian Media Group’s 180p per share cash offer for Jazz FM is going ahead, since no competing offer has yet been made that would have reversed the acceptance from Jazz FM’s main shareholder (see Guardian Media Group Makes £41m Offer For Jazz FM). The Board of Jazz FM has so… Continue reading Guardian’s Jazz FM Offer Goes Ahead
The best performance in yesterday’s media market came from Daily Mail, which is due to release its results at the end of this month. Shares rose 4.14% yesterday to close at £8.05 after an analyst said that the company was benefiting from not entering the tabloid price war.At the other end of the scale Jazz… Continue reading Sharewatch
The last twelve months have seen the advertising industry batten down its hatches against the looming threat of recession. However, while most of the UK’s main media sectors saw revenue fall year on year during 2001, figures published by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) show that the online industry has weathered the economic storm surprisingly… Continue reading Feature: Interactive Advertising Weathers The Storm
The Government’s Communications Bill is “one of the most consulted-on pieces of legislation in living memory” claimed MP Tessa Jowell yesterday. The Minister for Culture, Media and Sport was answering questions on the first day of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ European Media Summit in London.She stated that, starting with the White Paper and now at the Draft Bill… Continue reading Jowell Responds To Bill Questioning At Conference
Integrated marketing services company New Media Industries (NMI) has been appointed to handle the UK launch of new technology that allows video and media rich messages to be sent via email and GSM networks.The new tool called Oplayo allows consumers to receive stream-free video footage direct to their PCs or mobile phones without the need… Continue reading NMI To Handle Launch Of New Video Messaging Tool
TEAMtalk has today confirmed that it is holding talks with a number of parties interested in acquiring either the whole or parts of the radio and media group.Last week TEAMtalk Media, which owns national talk-based radio station TEAMtalk 252, rejected a take-over bid from UKbetting that valued the group at around £10.2 million. However, TEAMtalk,… Continue reading TEAMtalk In Take-Over Discussions
