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The following is an edited version of the Worldview Address, delivered by Barclay Knapp, President and CEO of NTL, at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, on Saturday.In 1905 Albert Einstein began the “creative destruction” of classical Newtonian physics with his theory of special relativity, proving that space and time could stretch and bend in… Continue reading “Television Is The Internet, The Internet Is Television”: Barclay Knapp, President Of NTL, Speaks

IPC Media said it expected a 20% increase in its operating profits for this year, after announcing quarterly pre-tax profits of £4.8m. The consumer magazines group said advertising revenues rose almost 10% in the third quarter of 2000.Total revenues for the three months to June 30 were £94 million, a 2.8% increase on the same… Continue reading IPC Media Anticipates 20% Growth In 2000

Terrestrial, free-to-air television channels’ share of viewing is being increasingly cannibalised by the growth of multi-channel, pay-TV in the UK. As Media Track recently showed (see Feature: Pay-TV Channels Account For Almost Half Of All Viewing In Digital Homes), viewing to ITV in digital homes is on the decline, down to 19.6% on average so… Continue reading Feature: Channels With “Mass-Appeal” Slip As TV Market Fragments

ONdigital has been approached by cable group NTL in the hope of forming a marketing alliance to offset competition from BSkyB. The news comes as executives at Granada and Carlton revealed plans to make a decision within the next month on whether to proceed with a flotation of their joint-owned digital terrestrial platform.The UK’s largest… Continue reading ONdigital Prepares For Float, Denies Detailed Agreement With NTL

Positive comments over the bank holiday break about Emap’s performance in the latest ABC figures seem to have halted the company’s decline in share price (see Sharewatch). Shares rose 37p during yesterday’s trading, ending at £11.49.Other good performances were seen at Saatchi & Saatchi, which rose 17p to end at £4.79, Reuters, which jumped 50p… Continue reading Sharewatch

According to the FIPP/Zenith World Magazine Trends 2000/2001 report, Global ad spend, which has been rising steadily since 1994, is set to increase by 5-6% annually until 2002. In 1999, the total global adspend figure for magazines was $40bn which was a 6% increase on 1998.

Cable group Telewest has said it is considering a flotation of UKTV, its joint venture with the BBC. Speaking at the Guardian Edinburgh TV festival, Telewest CEO Adam Singer said that the two groups had held “perennial conversations” about the possibility of a flotation of their stable of cable channels, which include UK Gold and… Continue reading Telewest Boss Considers Flotation Of UKTV

RevenueAccording to agency estimates, year on year growth in terrestrial television including GMTV was 4.5% during July, with the total now at £203m. Channel 5 managed an increase of 26.7%, while Channel 4 rose 8.5%. ITV saw a small increase of 1.6%, but GMTV saw a drop of 5.4%.A year on year increase of 22.4%… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – July 2000

A national newspaper claimed on Sunday that a report it had obtained recommended that the government should bring forward the changeover from digital to analogue TV signals by subsidising or giving away digital decoding equipment to households. This would enable the auction of the analogue spectrum to occur as early as 2004, giving the government… Continue reading Report To Government Says Speed Up Digital Changeover

The Radio Authority’s Programming and Advertising Review, covering the second quarter of 2000, has now been published. An online version, replacing the printed copy which was distributed in the past, is available on the Authority’s website, www.radioauthority.org.uk.During the April-June quarter, the Authority dealt with 116 written complaints regarding UK commercial radio stations. Of those, 61… Continue reading New Programming And Advertising Review Published By Radio Authority