Bright Station ended an otherwise steady week by dropping 5½p to 86½p. Reuters also fell 7p to £12.50, despite having the third highest percentage increase of media shares over the week.Granada rose 28p to £6.48 on Friday. Granada Media, due to be floated shortly (see Granada Group To Float Media Arm), is expected to be… Continue reading Sharewatch
This year’s cinema admissions for May were higher than they have been for 25 years. According to Carlton Screen Advertising, 11.3m people went to see films including the blockbuster Gladiator and Final Destination, representing more than a 50% increase on the same period in 1999.Gladiator which opened over here following great success in the US,… Continue reading May Days Prove No Emergency For Cinema Box Offices
ITV has revealed the details of the second proposal it put to the ITC in the hope of improving news audiences. The proposal, which included an increased budget, was once again rejected yesterday (see ITC Tells ITV To Bring Forward Nightly News) as the ITC stuck to its guns and said the broadcaster must move… Continue reading ITV Reveals The Measures That Weren’t Enough For The ITC
Programmes May comes along and the viewers start melting away quicker than England’s back four. With a dearth of decent new programmes in the schedules, terrestrial television is beginning to rival UK Gold with its output. In times of crisis programme makers always rely on the safe tried and tested programmes to grab big audience… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – May 2000
Talk of a court battle between ITV and the Independent Television Commission (ITC) was in the air today after the industry watchdog told the broadcaster to move its Nightly News programme to an earlier slot. The culmination of a year-long tussle between the two, provoked by slumping audience figures for national and regional news on… Continue reading ITV’s Battle With The ITC Could End In Court
Designer feathers have been ruffled in the editorial offices of UK style bibles by claims that self-regulation will result from Tessa Jowell’s “Body Image Summit”. A terse open letter has been released by the editors of some of the top fashion magazines denying that any such commitment had been made.Yesterday press coverage of the summit,… Continue reading Editors Deny Self-Regulating Body To Be Established
Telewest shares suffered along with other telecommunications companies yesterday, dropping 14p to £2.78. Cable & Wireless managed to buck the trend following news that it had received clearance from the government to dispose of its Hong Kong Business (see Sharewatch). Shares ended up 19p at £12.06.Pearson shares fell £1.40 yesterday, to end at £20.87. This… Continue reading Sharewatch
Natmags is to team up with the owners of the second most visited women’s portal in the US, www.women.com to launch a version in the UK. The site, www.uk.women.com will include content from Natmag brands including Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan and will be up against existing women’s web offerings like IPC’s www.beme.com and Daily Mail… Continue reading Launches Brief
England’s defeat at the hands of Romania was watched by a peak audience of 19.3m when the BBC broadcast it on Tuesday night. Unofficial overnight figures put the average total of individuals watching at 17.5m. Of these 8.7m were adult men and 6.7m adult women.Despite Tuesday’s being the match that decided whether England would make… Continue reading UK TV Audiences Top 17m During England Defeat
A year on from its stock market flotation, Future Network was in positive mood for its AGM yesterday, celebrating growth and unveiling coming launches (see Future Looks Bright A Year On From Float). The market seemed less convinced, however, and share prices fell 17½p to £7.85.The deadline for ITV to submit its proposals to the… Continue reading Sharewatch
