Analysis of the media market reveals a week of mixed fortunes for radio companies following the release of the latest RAJAR data last Thursday.GWR saw shares fall 7.63% week on week to close at £2.24, closely followed by Capital, which was down 5.62% to finish at £6.63, a loss of 39˝p on the previous week.… Continue reading Sharewatch
Trinity Mirror has “categorically denied” press reports that it is putting its national Sunday newspaper, the Sunday People up for sale.A spokesman for Trinity Mirror today dismissed the claims as “pure speculation” saying: “The Sunday People is not up for sale and Trinity Mirror has no plans to put the paper on the market in… Continue reading Trinity Denies Sunday People Sale Rumours
Capital Radio is to create a digital radio network for children in association with the UK subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company.“Capital Disney” will broadcast on the existing Cube digital radio stations to a potential audience of around 25 million. It is also expected to use platforms such as mobile phones and the internet. The… Continue reading Capital Teams With Disney For Kids Radio Channel
Global market information company, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), has agreed to acquire the broadcast division of BMC News and will combine the division’s activities with those of TNS Tellex.The merged entity will be one of the UK’s leading broadcast monitoring specialists and will build on the group’s existing media intelligence activities in 20 countries, says… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Acquires TV And Radio Monitoring Business
ITV Digital is making a number of cost-cutting redundancies from its interactive arm as part of a restructure brought on by the “difficult economic climate.”A spokesman for ITV Digital confirmed that internal restructuring was taking place at ITV Active and said that a “limited number” of job cuts would be made, reflecting the commercial realities… Continue reading ITV Digital Restructures Interactive Arm
Market information network Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) has acquired the custom research division of US-based Greenfield Online (GFOL), which will be integrated into TNS Intersearch. GFOL will now be dedicated to serving the online data collection needs of research companies, which in turn conduct web research for a range of blue chip clients. In the… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Sofres Acquires US Internet Research Group
German advertising spend declined by 9.8% in December last year, according to an analysis of ACNielsen data by ABN Amro. The broker had predicted a fall of 7.7%. Radio was the hardest hit by the slowdown, declining by 19.3% for the final month of 2001; newspapers also suffered, down by 11.0%. Only magazines outperformed the… Continue reading German Ad Market Drops 7.1% In 2001
Pearson announced yesterday that it has completed the sale of its 22% stake in European broadcaster, RTL Group, to Bertelsmann AG, as previously announced in December last year.Following the deal, Marjorie Scardino, chief executive officer of Pearson, and John Makinson, finance director at Pearson, will resign as non-executive directors of RTL Group.The sale was completed… Continue reading Pearson Completes Sale Of RTL Stake To Bertelsman
The substantial deployment on internet video on demand (VOD) services in the US will not occur until 2005, according to report released this month by GartnerG2. Web-based video on demand is very much being hyped as the next major development in broadband entertainment services in the US. Nevertheless, GartnerG2 predicts that its success is a… Continue reading Internet Video On Demand Success A Long Way Off, Says GartnerG2
BARB has defended its new TV ratings system after rival research showed that over 3 million viewers might have been “lost” from an episode of Coronation Street.The research, commissioned by media agency Carat, showed that 14.5 million viewers watched an episode of Coronation Street shown on Friday 25 January, 3.3 million more than the 11.2… Continue reading BARB Defends New Ratings System
