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According to Scarborough Research, mobile phone ownership in the US has grown by 29% over the past two years. Almost two thirds – 62% – of American adults now own a cell phone. In 1999, only 48% of US adults owned a cell phone and in 2000 the total had grown to 55%. Scarborough believes… Continue reading US Mobile Phone Growth Will Continue, Says Scarborough

Future has secured its ongoing relationship with Microsoft by winning the contract to publish the only Windows publication to be officially licensed by the software manufacturers. The launch, Future’s biggest computer magazine for three years, will be backed with a £750,000 promotional spend, covering point-of-sale promotions, covermounts and packaging.The agreement for Future to produce Microsoft… Continue reading Future Wins Official XP Magazine Licence

Future Network, the international games and specialist consumer magazine publisher, has today said that it has been encouraged by the trading of January and February this year and described the previous financial year as the most difficult in the company’s history. Future has had a very rocky ride of late. Its market capitalisation has plummeted;… Continue reading Games Mags Recovery Could Drag Future Out Of ‘Most Difficult’ Period

Virgin Radio has been issued with a £75,000 fine by the Radio Authority for what is described as a “major failure of compliance which led to a serious breach of the rules on taste, decency and offence to public feeling”, namely encouraging a nine-year-old girl to repeat a sexually explicit phrase over the airwaves.The broadcast… Continue reading Virgin Fined £75,000 For Swearing Child Incident

Analysis: Sport, Not The Draw It Used To Be?The prime mover in Rupert Murdoch’s UK satellite TV success, sports broadcasting rights, may be floundering as a must-have for TV networks as the high stakes paid during boom time take their toll on balance sheets in these advertising-challenged times.In the US, bidding wars over various league… Continue reading Analysis: Sport, Not The Draw It Used To Be?

JCDecaux has this morning released full year results for 2001 which revealed a 2.1% fall in profits and a downbeat outlook for Q1 2002. EBITDA was down 2.1% to E377.3 million whilst net profits were halved to E10.2 million from E20.4 million in 2001. This, said the group, was due to a slowdown in its… Continue reading JCDecaux Downbeat On Early 2002 Outlook

US radio revenue rebounded in January according to the latest totals released by the Radio Advertising Bureau. National sales were up 2% when compared with January 2001 and local revenue increased by 1% year on year. The combined total for local and national spending also grew by 1% in year on year comparison. The announcement… Continue reading US Radio Rebounds In January

Radio First (see Radio First Sees Medium Term Profit In Football Stations) has made an upbeat statement at its AGM today and announced that formal audience research would be completed at each station during 2002. Chairman Keith Harris stated that numbers of advertisers and, consequently ad revenue, was growing month by month and as such… Continue reading Football Ventures Boost Radio First Outlook

Peter Bazalgette has called for the Government’s analogue switch-off target of 2006-2010 to be abandoned, claiming that it is “unrealistic and distorts policy making”. The chairman of Endemol UK and non-executive director of Channel 4, writing in today’s Guardian, added that “an early switch-off as a government objective encourages digital platform-owners to hope for interventions… Continue reading Bazalgette Calls For End To Switch-Off Target

According to press reports this morning SMG is considering a £60 million write-down of its stake in Scottish Radio Holdings in response to pressure from its auditors. In a buoyancy market, between December 2000 and May 2001, SMG gradually increased it hold in SRH building a 29.5% stake at a cost of £147 million. Analysts… Continue reading SMG Counts The Cost Of SRH Investment