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BBC radio continued to improve its overall share of listening, at the expense of commercial stations, according to the latest figures released by RAJAR this morning. All BBC improved its share by a further 0.3% points in the final quarter of 2000, while All Commercial slipped 0.7% points. Amongst commercial stations losses were most acute… Continue reading BBC Continues Its Upward Trend In Latest RAJAR Report

A Digital Radio Development Bureau has been formed to accelerate the roll-out of the new medium. The news was announced as radio industry figures met to discuss the challenges of the market at Marketing Week’s Digital Radio conference yesterday. Although Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) technology is now in its sixth year, difficulties in translating its… Continue reading Digital Radio Development Bureau Forms, Medium Set To Be Market Leader By 2015

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has published its latest Trends in Television report. Its results show overall viewing levels continuing their period of stability during the final quarter of 2000. Taken as a whole, total viewing across 2000 remained relatively constant, at 3.67 average hours per day, although live (unrecorded) terrestrial viewing fell… Continue reading TV Viewing Levels Stable, Says IPA Report

Trinity Mirror’s Scottish title the Daily Record continues to command the largest share of advertising revenue among Scotland’s newspapers, with more than twice as much as its nearest rival, SMG’s Glasgow Herald. New figures from CIA MediaLab show that both of the top titles achieved year on year increases in revenue (Daily Record 1%, Glasgow… Continue reading Scotsman’s Efforts To Modernise Rewarded With Ad Revenue Increase

Granada Media received a positive rating from brokers Morgan Stanley Dean & Witter yesterday, ahead of the completion of its demerger from catering group Granada Compass (see Granada Rises On Positive Ratings). Shares were buoyed by this and ended the day’s trading up 10p at £3.85.A broker’s downgrade for BSkyB had the opposite effect on… Continue reading Sharewatch

Forrester Research has gone against the tide of ad revenue slump predictions by forecasting a 74% growth in European dotcom advertising during this year. Despite the month on month fall in online spending during December, the research company is expecting adspend in this sector to reach the equivalent of £750m this year, up from £437m… Continue reading Forrester Goes Against Adspend Gloom Predictions, Forecasts Growth For Dotcom Sector

The development UK radio group Forever Broadcasting is ‘continuing unabated’, chairman John Josephs told the company’s AGM this morning. Forever owns three radio stations: 107.6 Juice in Liverpool, formerly known as Crash FM; Tower FM, which serves audiences in Manchester, Bury and Bolton and Surf FM in Brighton. It has also submitted two further applications… Continue reading Forever Broadcasting Development ‘Continues Unabated’

Trinity Mirror’s Scottish title the Daily Record continues to command the largest share of advertising revenue among Scotland’s newspapers, with more than twice as much as its nearest rival, SMG’s Glasgow Herald. New figures from CIA MediaLab show that both of the top titles achieved year on year increases in revenue (Daily Record 1%, Glasgow… Continue reading Scotsman’s Efforts To Modernise Rewarded With Ad Revenue Increase

31 January 2001 AOL Time Warner, the business created by the huge merger of internet company AOL and traditional media group Time Warner, has this morning unveiled record results for the America Online business. The group said that advertising, commerce and other revenues grew by 65% to £$741 million in the quarter to December 2000.… Continue reading AOL Time Warner Reports Record Revenues

UK public relations and advertising firm Chime Communications has this morning announced the acquisition of LNS Communications in the US for £11 million. Chime will pay £6.9 million initial cash and a further sum of up to £4.1 million depending on LNS’ profits for the years ended 31 December 2001 and 2002. Chime’s businesses include… Continue reading Chime Communications Acquires LNS For £11m