Hello! for teenager’s or OK! for kids. Can you imagine that? The thought of a “little brother”-style celebrity lifestyle magazine for the 12-19 year old market left me with a bad taste in my mouth reminiscent of my student days when a good night out was a half-cooked chicken kebab after 10 pints of lager.A… Continue reading First Issue Review: Star
David Elstein, chief executive at Channel 5, has left the channel and been replaced by programming director, Dawn Airey. The channel’s director of sales, Nick Milligan, is to become deputy chief executive.Elstein, who became chief executive seven months before Channel 5 began transmitting in March 1997, is exercising his contractual share options as Channel 5… Continue reading David Elstein Quits Channel 5
Trinity Mirror has today announced the acquisition of Southnews for £284.6m. The combination of the two regional newspaper groups will increase Trinity’s presence in the South East of England, a lucrative area for advertisers. Under the deal Southnews shareholders will each receive £12.00 per share in cash, a premium of 57% on yesterdayÂ’s closing price.… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Buys Southnews For £284m
Trinity Mirror, the UK’s largest regional publisher, has today announced the acquisition of Southnews for £284.6m. The combination of the two regional newspaper groups will increase Trinity’s presence in the South East of England, a lucrative area for advertisers.Southnews publishes 84 paid-for and free titles in London and the Home Counties and is the tenth… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Buys Southnews For £284m
The Newspaper Society has formed a working group of experts from the industry to find a more accurate and comprehensive way of measuring the total audience of regional newspaper titles. The group will reassess the systems currently on the market and, as more titles move onto the web, look at ways of fusing print and… Continue reading Regional Press Group Seeks More Accurate Audience Measurement System
Carlton Communications was up 10p to 570p as it announced it is to take over the sales contract for the Scottish Television and Grampian ITV franchises. The group will now be responsible for almost £1bn of yearly advertising revenue (see Carlton Sales Takes Over Scottish And Grampian Contracts). Scottish Media Group, which owns the franchises,… Continue reading Sharewatch
A new report by Jupiter Media Metrix indicates that America’s dominance of the Internet industry may be slipping. The study, which covers markets in Australia, the US, Germany, France, and the UK, estimates that 245 million households worldwide will be online by 2005. It also predicts that the vast majority of growth, as well as… Continue reading US Dominance Of Net May Be Slipping
United News & Media has announced two senior appointments. Nick Read is to become chief operating officer of Xilerate B2B, the group’s business-to-business publishing, exhibition and online division. His current position is chief financial officer of Miller Freeman Worldwide. Andrew Nugee is to be promoted to CEO of Xilerate from his role as chief operating… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Virgin Radio has announced the signing of its first ten advertisers on its new online radio service. The group was one of the first to offer separate advertising specifically targeting online listeners last month (see Virgin Launches Separate Branding For Online Radio Stream).Direct Line, monster.co.uk, thesun.co.uk and supergoals.co.uk are amongst the founder advertisers to the… Continue reading Virgin Radio Nets First Online Advertisers
Programmes The return of ITV’s cash cow, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, has helped ITV find some good cheer out of a poor month. With several top programmes underperforming on previous years’ totals.September’s top programme unsurprisingly was Coronation Street, although its popularity has slipped possibly due to the continued fragmentation of television audiences.The other… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – September 2000
