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It is thought that talks will be initiated this week regarding the integration of Carlton and Granada’s new media divisions. Simon Shaps, managing director of Granada Broadband and Duncan Eaton, marketing and strategy director at Carlton Interactive are expected to meet with Stuart Prebble, chief executive of ITV to discuss the structure of ITV.com. Plans… Continue reading Carlton And Granada New Media Departments To Plan ITV Web Presence Boost

Cable giants NTL and Telewest are to merge their sales operations after NTL announced that it will be signing up to Flextech, the sales arm of Telewest, for all its internet, interactive and broadband advertising sales.Launching on July 1st, advertisers will for the first time be able to buy a single campaign across the entire… Continue reading NTL Signs Up With Flextech Sales

The lead enjoyed by Capital 95.8 FM among the London stations was retained for this quarter, despite slight declines for the station in both reach and share, period on period. Meanwhile the fight for second place continues, with the heavy marketing campaigns of Heart and Magic beginning to bear fruit.Capital remains a dominant force when… Continue reading Capital Continues London Domination Despite Falls In Share And Reach

Political, business and current affairs title, the Economist, part of the Pearson group, has undergone its first major redesign since 1987, which includes the introduction of full colour to all its pages.At over 150 years old, the title’s circulation shows no sign of needing a facelift, however, editor Bill Emmott pointed out that new readers… Continue reading Economist Goes Full Colour In Latest Redesign

The March 2001 RAJAR figures for local commercial radio show that weekly reach has decreased quarter on quarter from by 1%. Local commercial radio’s share of listening has risen for the same period, by 0.4 percentage points.The following tables show the best and worst performers, in terms of weekly reach and share of listening, of… Continue reading March 2001 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations

As the latest RAJAR figures revealed that commercial stations continue to slip in share and reach (see Newsline), radio owners’ share prices took a dive. Capital was the worst affected, slipping over 5.5% or 47½p to £8.10 by the end of the day. Emap dropped 5p to £8.35 while GWR lost 12½p to end at… Continue reading Sharewatch

The Radio Authority has received two applications for a re-advertised local licence for North London and three for another in South East London. The licences both run for a period of eight years from 1 January 2003 and the deadline for applications was 8 May. In a reflection of the capital’s diverse ethnic community, most… Continue reading Applications For London Radio Licences Reflect Diverse Ethnic Community

RAJAR’s latest figures, released this morning, showed that while All BBC managed to inch up another 0.4 percentage points quarter on quarter , All Commercial radio remained static in its share.All BBC Network Radio went up 0.2 percentage points, as did BBC Local and BBC Local/Regional. Local commercial radio saw percentage point gain of 0.4,… Continue reading BBC Local Stations Make Gains In Q1 2001 RAJAR Figures

—> According to the latest figures from Neilsen NetRatings, about 379 million people around the world now have Internet access from home, and 211 of those are described as ‘active’ Internet users. These figures represent a growth rate of seven million new home users in March and ‘active’ use began growing again after February’s drop.… Continue reading Global Home Net Use Latest From Nielsen NetRatings

ITN’s pan-European news channel, EuroNews, has extended its service distribution to cover the UK and Ireland by broadcasting via the Eurobird satellite. The arrangement is unusual in that the Sky Digital will be used to broadcast the free-to-air service at the same time as Sky is battling, as part of a consortium, to oust ITN… Continue reading ITN European News Channel Launches UK Version On Sky Digital