Granada has completed its acquisition of Border Television from Capital Radio for £50.5m, reinforcing the media group’s position as ITV’s leading shareholder.Granada, which agreed to buy Border from Capital last April (see Granada Agrees To Buy Border TV Assets), now owns six of the 14 ITV regional licences and has increased its share of the… Continue reading Granada Completes Border Deal
Go Racing, the consortium which owns the rights to British horseracing, has renamed itself “attheraces” and rebranded with a new corporate identity.The consortium, made up of by BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, was forced to rename itself after discovering that the domain name, ‘Goracing’ was unavailable and could not be used for the company’s… Continue reading Go Racing Rebrands
The completion date for TV’s “digital revolution” may remain unclear, but the democracy that a multi-channel world brings is already in evidence in TV viewing patterns. The audience has not changed much in size, but the traditional strongholds of ITV and BBC1 have seen their share drift downwards in recent years, with the main beneficiaries… Continue reading Feature: Losses And Gains In TV
The events programme for the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) 2001 has been announced. Key speakers will include: ITV’s director of programmes, David Liddiment, who will deliver the MacTaggart Lecture; president of Endemol Entertainment John de Mol, who will give the Worldview Address and Dawn Airey, chief executive of Channel 5, who will give… Continue reading GEITF Announces Events Programme
Following the release by BSkyB of Sky+ (see BSkyB Launches New Set Top Box), a new integrated personal video recorder, Datamonitor forsees rapid uptake of new set top boxes across Europe. By 2005, Datamonitor predicts that 48% of set top boxes will include PVR technology. 42% of households with digital TV are also forecast to… Continue reading New Era Dawns For Set Top Boxes
Despite an almost global downturn in the telecoms and IT markets, in Italy these sectors are growing ‘steadily’ reports Europemedia. Lay offs in the US have reportedly reached 136,006 for the period December 1999 to July 2001 (according to thestandard.com) yet the number of workers in the Italian IT sector has grown by 3.7% since… Continue reading IT Slowdown Yet To Hit ‘Steady’ Italian Market
A recent survey of leading online brokerage firms by Deloitte & Touche reveals that average use of online accounts has declined 42% as investors are taking a more conservative approach to their portfolios due to market volatility. The slowdown and unease in the US economy which began in early 2000 has significantly affected investment in… Continue reading Use Of Online Brokerages Falls In US
Despite slow short-term growth, the worldwide B2C market is set to be worth £428 billion by 2004 according to new research by eMarketer. Currently, due to the failure of many dotcoms over the past year, B2C commerce accounts for only a small percentage of all retail but eMarketer forecast that this will change after 2002… Continue reading Worldwide B2C Commerce Worth $428 Billion By 2004, Says eMarketer
Despite a huge potential market, UK firms lack the capability to exploit the B2B online market, according to a new report by Forrester. Online business could be worth £300 billion by 2005 says Forrester but firms will have to work hard to overcome their current organisational and technological difficulties in order to reap the benefits… Continue reading UK Online B2B Commerce Will Be Worth
The slowdown in the US economy and the knock-on effect on IT spending has had understandable repercussions for the rest of the world, being as it is the largest market. However, regions outside of the US and Canada have remained relatively immune to the slump so far and most are still showing growth for 2001.… Continue reading IDC Forecasts IT Spending Recovery In 2002
