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Shares in Granada Media tumbled today after a “significant” downgrade by Merrill Lynch wiped 21% from its 2001 profit forecast. Prices slipped almost 9% as the bank highlighted ITV advertising softness, “conservative accounting” for the United TV assets and additional digital new media costs as contributing factors in its decision. Carlton Communications prices fell by… Continue reading Granada And Carlton Stock Tumbles After Downgrade

FTV, the holding company of Forecourt Television Limited is to raise additional funding of around £10m for ongoing development, primarily the installation of its television advertising systems in UK petrol station forecourts, by applying for its shares to be admitted to trading on AIM from this Wednesday.Forecourt Television offers advertisers the opportunity to buy spots… Continue reading Forecourt TV Prepares For AIM Listing

The Incorporated Society of British Advertisers (ISBA) has given a cautious welcome to the agreement reached by the ITC and ITV which will see the limited return of ITN’s News at Ten (see News At Ten To Return To ITV). Unsuprisingly, the society welcomed the prospect of increased peaktime advertising and scheduling flexibility, but “continues… Continue reading ISBA Gives Limited Welcome To ITN News At Ten’s Return

Blind Date, You’ve Been Framed and Barrymore are part of a dying breed of mainstream entertainment programmes, according to a new report. Traditional Saturday night schedules are looking tired and repetitive as fragmenting audiences move towards niche, specialised programming offered by pay-tv broadcasters.This is the result of research and analysis into the entertainment genre by… Continue reading Entertainment Is Dead, Long Live Entertainment

Channel 4’s hit show of the summer Big Brother is thought to have a lot to thank the internet for. The ability of eleven ordinary people locked in a house to draw some of the largest audiences the channel has ever seen (see Big Brother Finale Gives C4 Largest Ever Friday Night Audience) was greatly… Continue reading Big Brother Website Makes It Into August Top Ten

The latest figures from ACNielsen MMS’ CIA Medialab shows that while traditional advertising companies continue to feature strongly in the list of top advertisers, telecoms companies, which have been enjoying a boom recently, are increasing the momentum of growth.Only two of the top ten advertising spenders in the first six months of this year had… Continue reading Telecoms Companies Behind Adspend Growth

Friday was a bad day for media stocks, with share values falling for the majority of companies. One of the worst casualties was Emap, which fell 50p to £9.50 by close of trading, making it one of the poorest media performers of the week, down 12% compared to the previous Friday. SMG also had a… Continue reading Sharewatch

Silver surfers are tipped to be the next growth audience on the internet, according to the latest research from Forrester. By 2005, 3.2m retired people will be online in the UK and will present a huge opportunity to advertisers and online businesses.Increased leisure time and a love of communication are helping to push retired people… Continue reading Silver Surfers’ Speed Catches Advertisers Unaware

Silver surfers are tipped to be the next growth audience on the internet, according to the latest research from Forrester. By 2005, 3.2m retired people will be online in the UK and will present a huge opportunity to advertisers and online businesses. Increased leisure time and a love of communication are helping to push retired… Continue reading Silver Surfers’ Speed Catches Advertisers Unaware

Programmes It’s impossible to talk about August’s top programmes without, once again, mentioning Big Brother. The most watched edition this month was unsurprisingly the fallout from ‘Nasty’ Nick Bateman’s eviction. The whole country, well, 6.87 million of it, were on tenterhooks as Craig discovered Nick’s scheming.There wasn’t much on offer in the way of new… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – August 2000