More than one in three internet home users in the UK are visiting financial websites, with Egg.com being the most popular. These findings from NetValue show that the UK is ahead of France but behind Germany in the percentage of users going to financial sites and has seen lower growth than either of those countries… Continue reading Figures Show Online Banking Taking Off Across Europe
ITV has dominated the news this week, with yesterday’s insistence by the ITC that the Nightly News must be moved (see ITC Says ITV Must Reschedule Nightly News) and the aftermath of the approval of the proposed franchisee mergers last Friday (see DTI Clears Way For ITV Merger) ending in this morning’s announcement that Carlton… Continue reading Sharewatch
Armchair supporters will now have a chance to voice their frustration if their favourite football team isn’t doing well. Interactive television company Two Way TV has made an agreement with ITV Sport to create live, interactive sports services and games for digital cable viewers on NTL’s Cable & Wireless networks.The services will mean viewers can… Continue reading Two Way TV Announces Sports Deal With ITV
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has added its voice to those calling for a single regulatory board for the whole of broadcasting and the internet. As the countdown to the Government’s White Paper on communications reform begins, the commission has published its own submission paper.It supports the creation of a single Office of Communications, dubbed… Continue reading ITC Calls For Single Broadcasting Regulator
Carlton Communications and United News & Media have called off their plans to merge in the wake of the DTI’s decision on their proposals a week ago (see DTI Clears Way For ITV Merger). The merger was given the go-ahead by Stephen Byers, provided United divest of its Meridian licence, a condition which the groups… Continue reading Carlton And United Call Off Merger Plans
The battle for consolidation within the UK television industry reached its final round this morning when Carlton and United abandoned their plans to merge. The stage is now set for Granada Media to step in and create a duopoly within ITV.Stephen Byers’ condition that United sell its Meridian licence, which serves the south and south-east… Continue reading United “In Talks” As Deal Collapses
Telewest Communications has been forced to put its digital plans on hold due to a shortage of set-top boxes. The cable group said that it has stopped actively marketing its digital services until the problem is resolved.The whole of the cable industry is being affected by the shortage, as demand for services increases. There is… Continue reading Telewest Puts Digital Strategy On Hold As Box Shortage Affects Cable Industry
Programmes June must have been torture for those people who don’t enjoy sport. If you somehow managed to avoid football’s Euro 2000 tournament on either of the main two terrestrial channels, you probably couldn’t miss Test Match cricket, Formula One grand prix or the first week of Wimbledon 2000.Surprisingly, considering how badly England played and… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – June 2000
UK companies planned to spend more in the second quarter of this year than they did in the same period of last year, but business optimism for the coming year may well be down. These are the findings of the first Bellwether report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). The largest increase was… Continue reading Bellwether Report: UK Marketing Budgets Up, Says New IPA Survey
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is sticking to its decision that ITV’s Nightly News bulletin must be moved to an earlier time in the schedule in order to improve audiences (see ITV Must Address News Audience Decline, Says ITC). Following a meeting today the Commission is to issue a legally-binding direction for the ITV licensees… Continue reading ITC Says ITV Must Reschedule Nightly News
