In a submission to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), The Wireless Group (TWG) has accused the BBC of abusing its position of dominance to drive commercial radio out of the sports market.TWG, owners of the commercial radio station talkSPORT claims that the BBC has been acquiring radio rights to sporting events at inflated prices… Continue reading Wireless Group Takes BBC Complaint To OFT
Emap’s Kiss 100 has become the latest radio station to use SMS advertising, encouraging over 40,000 listeners to take part in an interactive competition called ‘Hey Sexy’.The competition was developed by Angel marketing to help Kiss increase its reach of the 15-24 audience. Managing director of Angel, Trevor Rudder, said: “The competition was genuinely ground… Continue reading Kiss 100 Gets Sexy With SMS Text Campaign
Johnston Press Sees Positive Second HalfRegional newspaper publisher Johnston Press this morning said that trading for the first five months of the year has been better than expected, with like for like advertising revenues up 3% on the same period last year.In its pre-close period trading statement, Johnston said that despite the prevailing mood of… Continue reading Johnston Press Sees Positive Second Half
Granada has warned of dire consequences for ITV and ONdigital if the changes to media ownership rules are delayed for at least another two years, as seems likely following the opening of Parliament last week (see Communications Bill On Hold This Year). In a leaked correspondence published in this weekend’s Sunday Times, Granada chairman Charles… Continue reading Granada Warns Of ITV Disaster
Newly appointed ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble (see Prebble Heads Up An Integrated ITV) has outlined the new management structure which is to oversee the integrated ITV businesses: ITV Channels, ITV Digital and ITV.com.With Rob Fyfe confirmed as managing director of ITV Digital and David Liddiment in place as director of programmes, a director of… Continue reading ITV Chief Unveils Management Structure
Nearly 500m homes worldwide will have personal video recorders (PVR’s) by 2010, according to research just published.A survey carried out by Informa media, which publishes reports on the sector, predicts that there will be around 1m PVR homes in the UK by the end of this year. By 2002, when PVR technology will be included… Continue reading PVR Homes To Hit 500m By 2010
Despite the disheartening adspend totals released by CMR this month (see Forecasts), AOL Time Warner CEO, Jerry Levin, announced this week that advertising revenues at the company have started to stabilise. Speaking at the global ad execs knees-up in Cannes, Levin told Reuters that advertising revenue had stopped falling and that AOL was on track… Continue reading AOL Confident That Adspend Slowdown Has Arrested
Granada has warned of dire consequences for ITV and ONdigital if the changes to media ownership rules are delayed for at least another two years, as is likely following the opening of Parliament last week. In a leaked correspondence published in this weekend’s Sunday Times, Granada chairman Charles Allen and CEO Steve Morrison told the… Continue reading Granada Warns Of ‘Potential Disaster’ For ITV
Regional newspaper publisher, Johnston Press, this morning said that trading for the first five months of the year has been better than expected, with like for like advertising revenues up 3% on the same period last year. In its pre-close period trading statement, Johnston said that despite the prevailing mood of economic uncertainty, it expects… Continue reading Johnston Press Sees Positive Second Half
According to the reports in the German press, US group Liberty Media is looking to boost its interests in the German cable market (see Insight Analysis: Deutsche Telekom Sells Cable Franchises To Liberty Media) by acquiring a stake in Tele-Columbus, the cable TV service owned by Deutsche Bank. The FT also suggests that Liberty is… Continue reading Liberty Media To Acquire Further German Cable Operators
