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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

Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) this morning said that it has discontinued offer talks for the group, at least ‘for the time being’. The announcement comes as the group completes the Goldman Sachs-led strategic review which began in December last year. In recent months, the Board has been in discussions with a number of parties which… Continue reading Scottish Radio Ends Takeover Talks As SMG Declines To Reveal Its Intentions

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

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

According the first National Internet Study by Scarborough Research, 23% of online consumers said that they watch less television now than they did before they started using the internet. Although 50% of internet users reported that a tv was on in the room where the internet was used most often and 91% said that they… Continue reading TV Viewing In Decline As Net Popularity Increases

More people than last year chose to watch last Saturday’s Arsenal/Liverpool FA Cup final on ITV rather than Sky Sports 2.ITV’s coverage drew 7.8m viewers at its peak. An average of 6.8 million watched throughout the game compared to an average of 840,000 viewers watching on Sky Sports 2.ITV’s controller of sport Brian Barwick said:… Continue reading ITV Wins FA Cup Final Ratings Battle

The Outdoor Resource Centre has published the industry spending figures compiled by Concord for February 2001. These showed that despite tales of automotive advertising slumps in the US, in the UK car manufacturers remain high up in the top spenders on the outdoor medium. Three out of the top five spenders in the front two… Continue reading Cars And Films Boost Outdoor Income

talkSPORT is to take both legal and programming action after accusing the BBC of abusing its dominant market position by buying both radio and TV rights to England’s next football international.Kelvin MacKenzie, chief executive of The Wireless Group, which owns Talksport, said: “We have always warned the BBC that if we are cut out of… Continue reading Talksport Tackles BBC Over England World Cup Rights