ONdigital is expected to announce a growth of 70,000 customers when it unveils its Q1 2001 subscriber figures this week. This is down on the 121,000 new customers it signed up in the first quarter last year. The slowing growth is mainly the result of churn – the number of customers leaving the ONdigital service.Analysts… Continue reading ONdigital Subs Growth Hampered By High Churn
In a trading week shortened by the Easter Bank Holiday, media shares staged something of a recovery as US interest rate cuts restored some confidence mid-week.Despite renewed downgrades to ITV revenue forecasts (see Further Downgrades Made To ITV Forecast), Granada Media finished among the top four media performers of last week, having added 27¼p or… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Federal Communications Commission in the US has amended its merger rules so that one of the four major television networks can now acquire the smaller, ’emerging’ networks, UPN and WB. The four majors – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – could each now take control of one or both of the emerging networks. The… Continue reading FCC Allows Major US TV Networks To Buy ‘Emerging’ Networks
—> New research from the Advertising Association suggests that business to business magazines will suffer due to the forthcoming slump in ad spending. Despite a predicted rise in advertising revenue for b2b magazines of 48m (to £1.38 billion) this represents a decline in growth year on year, 3.5% for 2000-2001 compared to 5.3% in 1999-2000.… Continue reading B2B Magazines Suffer As Adspend Falls
A further blow was struck for those impatient for digital switchover today as research revealed that in some cases you can’t even give digital TV away. CIA MediaLab has just completed a survey into the public’s attitude to multi-channel TV, and discovered that 35% of those surveyed who do not currently watch multi-channel TV would… Continue reading Public Still Not Convinced By Digital TV, Says Survey
Channel 5 has been promised an additional £6m funding this year by its owners RTL and United Business Media (UBM). The sum will be added to the existing budget of £140m for the year. Chief executive Dawn Airey is expected to spend the extra funds on high profile, original programming which is designed to please… Continue reading Channel 5 To Receive £6m Cash Boost From Owners
Interactive advertising agency Profero has announced details of its further collaboration with IPC Media. A year long contract has been signed which will widen the remit of activity undertaken by Profero to promote IPC brands.Previous work between the two companies have been campaigns for NME.com, unmissabletv.com and BEME.com. These have included an interactive competition for… Continue reading Profero Signs One Year Deal With IPC Media
Programmes The top rated programme of the month was the whodunnit shooting of Phil Mitchell in Eastenders. The programme shown on 1 March was watched by an average audience of 18.01m.Despite the hype surrounding the shooting of the ‘nice’ Mitchell brother, the must-see programme of the month had to be Raw Spice. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – March 2001
RevenueThe total TV revenue saw a year on year fall of 3.6% during March. The largest loss was at ITV, which dropped 8.2% , compared to the same period last year.Channel 4 performed the best of the terrestrial channels, with an 8.9% increase in the year on year analysis. Non-terrestrials also continue to do well,… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – March 2001
The surge caused by the US decision to cut interest rates subsided slightly yesterday. Nevertheless, BSkyB remained one of the companies to do well out of returning interest in the media sector, and having been the subject of positive noises from several brokers, it ended the day’s trading up 6½p at £8.63.Concerns about shrinking advertising… Continue reading Sharewatch
