This was not a strong quarter for commercial stations. Virgin Radio (AM) slipped once again, by 0.4 percentage points in share and by 15.4% year on year in terms of reach. The station blames the erosion of AM listening and insisted that its future would be secured by being available across all platforms including the… Continue reading RAJAR Latest Shows Radio 2 And Classic FM Carry The Flag For National Stations
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
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
1 February 2001 The New York Times has sold off its golf magazine publishing division to Advance Publications for an undisclosed sum. It was reported that Condé Nast and AOL Time Warner were also in discussion to take control of the titles. The portfolio, which includes Golf World, Golf Digest and the GolfDigest.com website, is… Continue reading New York Times Sells Magazine Division
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 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
E-commerce is seen by many as the key to unlocking the full financial potential of the internet, including ad revenue. Its growth in the UK and Europe received a boost this week with two appointments. Firstly, the European E-commerce Association (EAA), an e-business consortium, named its chairman, Ian Williams. Williams is adviser to the board… Continue reading Appointments Brief
