Analysis of TV revenue estimates for March reveals mixed fortunes for the UK’s terrestrial TV channels. Year on year, a decline of 4.8% was experienced overall, with ITV1 and Channel 4 seeing revenue fall. Channel 5 and GMTV fared better than their larger competitors, seeing revenue increase year on year. The news was better still… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – March 2002
ITV has secured foreign exchange company Travelex as the £3m sponsor of its World Cup coverage a month before the event is due to begin.The fully integrated deal will see Travelex become the exclusive broadcast and online sponsor of ITV’s full coverage and highlights of this summer’s tournament. The package also includes sponsorship of ITV’s… Continue reading ITV Secures £3m World Cup Sponsor
Loss-laden French media group, Vivendi, is to announce its Q1 headline figures this afternoon, after unveiling a full-year loss of E13.6 billion in March (see Write-Offs Push Vivendi £8.3 Billion Into The Red). According to predictions by analysts at ABN Amro, Vivendi will today reveal Q1 revenues up 6.9% to E6.3 billion and earnings up… Continue reading Troubled Times For Vivendi’s Messier
Following weeks of speculation by the media and consternation on the part of the Football League, administrators announced yesterday that ITV Digital is to be sold off as a going concern. In a statement released yesterday evening, Deloitte & Touche announced that “it has not been possible to restructure the cost base of ITV Digital”… Continue reading ITV Digital To Be Sold As ‘Going Concern’
A year after launching the UK edition of In Style magazine (see First Issue Review: InStyle), publishers IPC SouthBank (see InStyle Moves To IPC Southbank) have appointed a new advertising agency, Walsh Trott Chick Smith, and moved launch editor Dee Nolan to an editor-at-large position in New York.WTCS was appointed this week, after pitching alongside… Continue reading Promotions And Appointments After One Year In Style
Following yesterday’s announcementt that ITV Digital is to be put up for sale on a debt-free basis (see ITV Digital To Be Sold), Carlton saw shares rise 1.12% to close at £2.45˝, an increase of 2žp on the day before. The pay-TV platform’s other joint owner Granada fared less well, with stock slipping 1.89% yesterday… Continue reading Sharewatch
James Brown could be held responsible, for better or worse, for the creation of the “Lads Mag Phenomenon” as launch editor of Loaded. With that phenomenon seen by most as well and truly over, Brown’s I Feel Good Publishing is preparing to launch the magazine that the new, touchy-feely, “I love my baby and animals”… Continue reading NewsLine Column: Jack, Not For Lads?
ITV Digital To Be SoldIt was announced yesterday that ITV Digital is to be put up for sale on a debt-free basis, after the troubled venture was put into administration last month.More details from MediaTel Insight to follow…Subscribers to MediaTel Insight can access these reports in full, along with more national and international media analysis,… Continue reading ITV Digital To Be Sold
BSkyB has formed a marketing partnership with Lastminute.com that will see the travel portal promote its “key products” through the Sky Active interactive platform.The deal, which begins in the autumn, will expand Sky Active’s range of retail and travel services and will see Lastminute.com offer travel deals, theatre tickets and retail products to BSkyB’s digital… Continue reading BSkyB And Lastminute Form Interactive Partnership
Ad Revenues Lag Behind Economic UpturnZenith MediaAs predicted, Zenith Media has downgraded its advertising forecasts for 2002 as the ad recovery lags behind the economic upturn.Zenith says that advertising expenditure is still shrinking in the world’s leading economies but sees signs of an upturn in Q4 2002. A return to stronger growth is forecast in… Continue reading Ad Revenues Lag Behind Economic Upturn
