Tuesday MediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Media Business.The Periodical Publisher’s Association (PPA) holds its 2001 Magazines and B2B conference and exhibition at Grosvenor House. Continues Wednesday.Dotcom success story Lastminute.com releases interim results which are expected to show the business to be heading towards the black.Wednesday BSkyB releases interim financial… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Go Racing, the consortium hoping to create a dedicated digital horse racing channel (see C4’s Racing Plans Back On Track) has announced that it has reached the necessary level of acceptances from the UK’s racecourses to complete its deal to acquire media and related rights to British racing. A vote was taken regarding the consortium’s… Continue reading Go Racing Gets Go Ahead For Racing Channel
Figures in a trade journal yesterday showed that advertising buyers have greatly reduced ITV revenue estimates brought shares in Carlton Communications low yesterday. They finished down 25½p at £4.13½, a drop of close to 6%. Other ITV companies suffered less, with Granada losing less than 1% to end at £1.83½ and SMG gaining 6p to… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Daily Telegraph is set to become the first broadsheet to publish a separate sports supplement every day of the week. From 15 May the paper will launch a eight-page stand-alone supplement from Tuesday to Friday.The Telegraph was the first UK newspaper to introduce a separate sports supplement, when it launched a Monday edition in… Continue reading Telegraph Gets Daily Sports Supplement
Following the launch of Scottish financial newspaper, Business am last year (see Launches Brief), Scotland’s business community will now be targeted in magazine format, with UP Magazine. The first publication from newly-formed publishing company MHP Associates, the 80-page monthly magazine is aimed at entrepreneurs and fast-growing companies north of the border.The cover price for the… Continue reading New Magazine Launched For Scottish Business Community
MediaTel would like to thank Clare Goff, editor of Newsline, who is spending her last day in the job today. Since joining us in August 1999 she has been an invaluable member of the team, producing quality, incisive articles, developing the service and for the past year taking on the role of editor and training… Continue reading Newsline Editor Moves On To Pastures New
Readership of national newspapers showed a year on year decline of 3.3%, according to NRS figures released for March 2001.Among only four titles which managed a year on year increase for the six month period were tabloids the Sun and the Mirror. The Sun still leads the field, with a readership which grew 1.8%, while… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS Round-Up – March 2001
BSkyB is rumoured to be integrating its interactive TV portal, Open, into its own new media operations, a move that could lead to the closure of the service. The group is expected to announce mounting losses at the portal in its quarterly results due out next week.BSkyB announced it was to take a controlling stake… Continue reading Open To Be Integrated Into BSkyB
Guardian Unlimited is officially the most popular UK newspaper on the net, according to the latest audited figures. During March the online paper saw its monthly page impressions increase by almost 5 million to 30.2m and unique users registered 2.4m during the month.Guardian Unlimited announced its intention to publish official monthly figures in January, the… Continue reading Guardian Unlimited The Most Popular Online Paper
Global marketing communications group, Cordiant, has today announced the acquisition of broadcast public relations consultancy Bulletin International, for an initial consideration of £2.9 million. Bulletin is headquartered in London and has operations in Hong Kong, New York and Singapore. Its services include strategic counsel, media relations, editorial media planning, editorial content production and media training.… Continue reading Cordiant Acquires Broadcast PR Group
