UK cable market leaders NTL and Telewest have joined forces in a national marketing campaign designed to boost British broadband uptake. Both companies offer customers broadband cable modem internet services at £24.99 per month which compares favourably with BT’s £39.99 per month ADSL access.Currently broadband cable access is available to around 9 million homes in… Continue reading NTL Teams With Telewest
A new survey commissioned by Oftel shows that UK home internet use continues to rise as figures show that four million homes connected in the last 12 months. The survey, conducted in May 2001, reveals that 10 million homes now have internet connections, up from 6 million in May 2000 and 8.5 million in February… Continue reading UK Internet Use Continues To Rise, Says Oftel
Capital Interactive (CI), the online music arm of Capital Radio, today announced a deal to become the first web-radio provider for MSN.co.uk, supplying MSN’s 11m monthly users with three narrowcast web-radio stations.ATK13, Chyra and Glisn will be available on the MSN site around the clock from 23 July. ATK13 will be found on the MSN… Continue reading Capital In Web Deal With MSN
There were more than seven million internet users in Spain during April and May – over 20% of the population – according to data from the Spanish Association for Media Research (AIMC), as reported on Europemedia. This is almost double the number of people online at the same point last, according to the report. Almost… Continue reading Seven Million Spanish Online, Says Report
Attic Futura has announced that Shine magazine is to close. Publication of the women’s health and beauty glossy, which launched two years ago, will be suspended from August.According to the publisher, sales of the magazine have proved difficult to sustain in recent months and the decision to fold comes after “disappointing sales in a highly… Continue reading Lights Out For Shine Magazine
The Newspaper Association Of America reports that newspaper advertising expenditure for Q1 2001 will come in at around $10.4 billion, a decline of 4.3% over 2000, according to preliminary estimates. “Obviously, it would be hard to match the incredible gains of last year, particularly in national, which registered an 18.7 percent gain in the first… Continue reading US Newspaper Adspend Declines For The First Time Since 1992
MondayMediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Media Business.WednesdayTotal Publishing opens its show and conference at Earls Court. Free seminars include an interview with IPC chief executive Sly Bailey.ThursdayTotal Publishing Show continues. Interviewees at free seminars include Sally O’Sullivan, chief executive of Cabal Communications and Mark Frith, editor of last year’s… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Digital One has reached 80% transmission coverage of the UK mainland population by switching on four new transmitters. Digital radio is now available to a potential 44.85m people in the UK, although only a fraction of this number have the equipment to listen to digital radio broadcasts. The licence requirement for Digital One is to… Continue reading Digital Radio Reaches 80% Coverage
A sharp fall in the market value of Future Network has led the company to issue a reassuring statement this morning. Future says that there has been no deterioration in its financial condition, the performance of its businesses or in the company’s expectation of its performance since the previous trading statement was posted on 8… Continue reading Future Reassures Investors
Complaints to the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) increased by 3% year on year during the past 12 months, according the organisation’s Annual Review. Presenting the report, new chairman Lord Dubs said that research showed that citizens and consumers continued to value the role of regulation in broadcasting.The Annual Review reports on collaborative measures the BSC… Continue reading Complaints Up In BSC Report
