The books division of Carlton Communications has acquired Andre Deutsch Limited, one of the UK’s leading sports and media publishers, for an undisclosed sum. The deal will bring Carlton the publishing contracts for both Granada Media and Manchester United Football Club.Nigel Walmsley, chairman of Carlton Media, said: “Carlton is developing a fully integrated media strategy… Continue reading Carlton Buys Sports And Media Publisher
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has received licence renewal applications from seven ITV franchises. Formal expressions of interest from Border, Central, Channel, Grampian, Granada, LWT and Scottish mean that all existing Channel 3 licensees have now sought renewal.Licensees had until 29 September to put forward proposals for renewal for the ten-year period commencing April 1… Continue reading ITC Receives Remaining Licence Renewal Applications From ITV Franchisees
NTL has announced plans to forge a common technology platform across the cable networks of both itself and CWC. Following the completion of the merger between the two cable groups earlier this year (see Government Clears NTL/CWC Merger), the integration process will simplify the delivery of TV-based email, interactive services and internet.The company also announced… Continue reading NTL To Integrate Technology Platforms
A EU ban on all tobacco advertising has been ruled unlawful by the European Court of Justice today. The UK government had been intending to bring in its own legislation based on the European Community Directive on tobacco advertising and sponsorship. This would have taken effect from December last year, but the implementation of the… Continue reading European Court Overturns Ban On Tobacco Advertising
United News and Media received a positive recommendation yesterday, which raised its price by 7p to £7.80. It is still undecided as to whether UNM will accept shares or cash in the sale of its TV assets to Granada. Granada shares ended yesterday down 4p at £4.52.Reuters, which has been performing well recently, suffered a… Continue reading Sharewatch
ITV’s full year advertising forecast has been downgraded by brokers ABN AMRO, in part because of the subdued dotcom spending expected during the second half of this year. The original forecast suggested revenues of around £2,093m, a rise of 7.8% on 1999, but this has been adjusted to a rise of just 4.7%, while ABN’s… Continue reading ITV Yearly Advertising Forecast Downgraded Thanks To Dotcom Slowdown
Online investment is growing fast in the UK, according to new research from Allegra Strategies, which predicts there will by 2.4 million active online trading accounts by 2004. In the last year growth has been around 800%, with more than 300,000 accounts running by the end of this year. Experienced investors were the first to… Continue reading Online Trading Popularity Grows In UK
IPC has poached ITV’s head of marketing, Sam Carter, to join as marketing director for IPC Connect. Carter, who has led the marketing function of ITV and ITV2, having founded the marketing department four years ago, will be moving to the company whose brands include BEME.com and IPC’s women’s weekly magazines. She will join the… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Fears that print versions of magazines and newspapers will lose out to their online counterparts are not backed by the latest research into the habits of the advertisers dream – AB graded 25-54 year olds in economically active households, or “VIPers”.The third wave of research from the VIPer consortium (see VIPer Research To Offer Advertisers… Continue reading Research Shows New Media Can Be Good For Old Media
The BBC’s decision to move its evening news programme to 10pm (see BBC To Broadcast News At Ten) is set to unleash one of the biggest ratings wars in British television history. ITV has responded to dramatic changes to BBC1’s schedule with its own arsenal of populist programming.From 16 October ITV will broadcast extended hour-long… Continue reading News At Ten Slot Sparks Ratings War
