The latest radio audience figures, for the three months to March 2001, showed BBC Radio notching ahead its lead over the commercial sector quarter on quarter. This is a continuation of a trend that began around a year ago when then BBC stations took their share over the 50% mark and commercial dropped back to… Continue reading Feature: BBC Radio Continues To Build Advantage
The latest radio audience figures, for the three months to March 2001, showed BBC Radio notching ahead its lead over the commercial sector quarter on quarter. This is a continuation of a trend that began around a year ago when then BBC stations took their share over the 50% mark and commercial dropped back to… Continue reading Insight Analysis: BBC Radio Continues To Build Advantage
UK-based telecommunications company, Cable & Wireless, has this morning showed that moves to concentrate on its internet protocol (IP) networks may be starting to be off. Towards the end of 1999, C&W sold its UK consumer cable division – Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) – to rival cable company NTL. Since then C&W has begun… Continue reading C&W’s Focus On IP Networks Pays Off
Stock in the radio sector is currently in freefall after Scottish Radio said it had ended merger discussions (see Scottish Radio Ends Takeover Talks As SMG Declines To Reveal Its Intentions) and a report in this morning’s Financial Times claimed that Capital Radio will tomorrow issue a profits warning. Shares in these two groups naturally… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Radio Shares Take A Dive
BSkyB has completed the acquisition of British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings (BIB), the company which owns and operates the Open interactive TV service. Sky has bought out BT’s stake in BIB, after the telecommunications company decided to exercise its option to exit the group, following Sky’s acquisition of HSBC and Matsushita’s holdings last week (see City… Continue reading BSkyB Completes Open Acquisition
Postar, the roadside measurement system, is to introduce a free online pre-planning tool when it relaunches its website. The tool, called Postar Lite, is designed to give an overview of the industry’s various players, stock and innovations accessible to those who would ordinarily find the full Postar service above their requirements.Managing director Helen Tridgell explained… Continue reading Postar To Launch Free Online Pre-Planning Tool
ISBA has announced the imminent launch of a Scottish Advertisers Group to provide a forum for information sharing on issues relating to the developing and increasingly independent Scottish advertising market.The group will be officially unveiled today at the Scottish IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards and will operate as a satellite of the London-based ISBA. Pam Hyder,… Continue reading ISBA To Unveil Scottish Advertisers Group
Month on MonthNational newspaper circulation data for April 2001 has now been released. The figures reveal that the loss sustained in circulation across all titles has not been too severe in a month on month analysis, falling just 0.5%.The greatest loss in terms of percentage change in circulation was at the Financial Times, which lost… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – April 2001
Commercial radio stations continued their slump today with both Carlton and Emap showing losses. Carlton suffered a 3.2% loss with a drop of 25p finishing at £7.60. Emap followed suit showing a loss of 3.6% to finish at £7.81.Telewest was the worst performer of the day with a total loss of 7.22%. BSkyB also slumped… Continue reading Sharewatch
The divide between the strongest and weakest Internet companies in Europe is widening according to the latest edition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Internet 150, a rolling quarterly analysis of cash burn rates and share price performances of the top 150 publicly listed European internet companies. The top 25% of companies in the index are, on average,… Continue reading European Internet Market: Divide Grows Between Rich And Poor
