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Anglo-Dutch publisher, Reed Elsevier, has successfully completed its take offer for Harcourt General (see US Clears Reed’s Harcourt General Acquisition), the company announced this morning. The merger of the two companies will create the world’s largest scientific and medical publisher. Once the merger has been completed, Reed said it will complete the on-sale of the… Continue reading Reed Elsevier Completes Harcourt Acquisition

Web giant MSN sat comfortably in the number one spot of the Top Ten UK Online advertisers for May 2001, according to figures from NetValue. 5455,000 individual at home internet users were exposed to MSN.com throughout the month and the site achieved 39.5% reach of the total UK internet universe. Amazon.co.uk held on to second… Continue reading New Media Round-Up

BSkyB and Ladbrokes have agreed to form a joint 50:50 venture to offer a fixed-odds and pools betting service via the Sky Digital television platform. Ladbrokes’ Vernons pools business will be transferred to the joint venture and BSkyB will contribute its wholly-owned bookmaker Surrey Sports, which already operates on Sky Digital. The service will operate… Continue reading BSkyB And Ladbrokes To Create Digital TV Betting Service

Business to business display advertising has been impacted by the technology and telecom adspend downturn, but recruitment revenues have remained strong at EMAP, according to chairman Adam Broadbent’s AGM statement.The consumer magazine division is showing some growth and circulation revenues are continuing to improve, the company said. Radio advertising has shown a decline in the… Continue reading EMAP First Half Marginally Behind Last Year

ITV has signed a deal with NTL, the UK’s largest cable network, to carry its new sports channel.The deal will mean that a further 2m viewers will be able to subscribe to ITV Sport when it launches on 11 August. The channel will also be carried on ONdigital, which has today rebranded as ITV Digital.ITV’s… Continue reading ITV Signs Deal With NTL

Future Network’s words of reassurance to investors (see Future Reassures Investors) appear to have done their job, as the company’s shares rose once again during yesterday’s trading. While still a fraction of their price at the beginning of 2000 (see Sharewatch), shares climbed over 17% to end at 36½p.RTL was another high flier, with an… Continue reading Sharewatch

Evidence of the gathering strength of the non-terrestrial channels was once again evident in a year on year comparison of viewing in all homes. The Others category rose from a 16.5% average weekly share of viewing in June 2000 to a 20.2% share in June 2001, bringing it closer to the share enjoyed by the… Continue reading Digital Television Round-Up – June 2001

The men’s lifestyle magazine market may be over the hill and the women’s lifestyle market bursting at the seams recently, but the niche markets of men’s and women’s health and fitness titles have been steaming ahead, showing growth two or three times greater than their parent sectors. However, recently the vital signs have indicated a… Continue reading Feature: The Health Of The Fitness Mag Market

Television will drive the change in communications brought about by new technologies, according to ITC chief executive Patricia Hodgson. Speaking at the annual lunch of ISBA yesterday, she said television, with its familiarity and ubiquitousness, would give most consumers their first taste of “broadband Britain.”“We are seeing a correction from the first heady days of… Continue reading Hodgson: TV Will Drive Communications Change

Greg Dyke’s unflattering description of Kelvin MacKenzie at the Radio Festival yesterday (see Dyke Hits Back At TalkSPORT) has provoked an inevitable counter-attack from the talkSPORT chief executive.Defending his opinions of the BBC’s going “cheque-book crazy on rights” to sporting events as “legitimate”, MacKenzie said in a statement issued today, that Dyke had one aim… Continue reading MacKenzie Counters Dyke Attack