Guardian Media Group chairman, Paul Myners has been appointed as the first non-executive director on the BT Wireless board. He has been appointed alongside Andrew Sukawaty, former chief executive of NTL, who becomes deputy chairman.Chairman David Varney whose board preparing for a future demerger, described the pair’s experience as “invaluable”.Subscribers can access ten years of… Continue reading GMG Chair On BT Wireless Board
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
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
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
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
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
Personal video recorder (PVR) manufacturer, TiVo, has signed a channel highlights deal with UKTV.UKTV will be the fourth broadcaster to run a TiVo highlights channel, with services from BSkyB, BBC and Channel 4 already up and running. TiVo says that this, the second advertising partnership to be announced in the last four months: “Demonstrates a… Continue reading TiVo Strikes Channel Highlights Deal With UKTV
A quarter of Europe’s economic growth will come from e-commerce by 2004, according to a new report by Andersen. It estimates that between 2000 and 2004, 24% of European economic growth will come from e-business – providing investments are made in broadband connections. The report claims that without e-business revenues, annual European economic will be… Continue reading E-Commerce Will Boost European Economic Growth, Says Andersen
In a survey of net users in 16 countries, Ipsos-Reid found that 46% of those questioned cited online credit card fraud as a “major concern” when shopping online and 26% said it was a “moderate concern”. Ipsos say that such concerns are limiting the potential for e-commerce growth as 55% of those who have not,… Continue reading Security Concerns Hamper eCommerce Success, Says Ipsos-Reid
