Monday A national newspaper ABC Round-Up for November 1999 will be available on Newsline and in the Press features list later today.MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Tuesday The Retail Prices Index for November 1999 is released by the Office of National Statistics.Thursday The Daily Mail & General Trust group… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Cable company Telewest Communications and pay-TV channel provider Flextech are reported to be close to completing a merger only days after the companies said that talks were “at a very early stage”. Last week the two groups were forced to announce that merger discussions were underway after their share prices began to rise (see Telewest… Continue reading Telewest And Flextech Close To Merger
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has upheld complaints about an episode of Jerry Springer UK. The 53 complainants were offended by the episode, entitled “Sexy Secrets”, which was broadcast at 8pm when large numbers of children were expected to be watching.Anglia, which broadcast the show, claimed that the subject matter was well within children’s terms… Continue reading ITC Upholds Complaints About Jerry Springer
ONdigital has won the contract to provide 65,000 Glasgow City Council homes with digital television. The digital terrestrial group, jointly owned by Granada and Carlton, won the contract against strong competition from Sky, NTL and Blick.Hugh McDonald, Glasgow’s assistant chief housing officer said: “Like all councils we need to be digital-ready. We carried out the… Continue reading ONdigital Wins Glasgow City Council Contract
As predicted the recently-merged Trinity Mirror group has consolidated the remainder of its regional newspaper sales into the Amra sales house (see Trinity And Mirror Expected To Merge Sales). Amra, which is owned by Trinity (see Trinity Acquires Amra), is to take over from the Mirror Group’s regional sales operation by handling Trinity Mirror’s 45… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Consolidates Regional Sales Into Amra
Newcastle United has formed a media partnership with NTL, in which the cable group will increase its stake in the club and obtain sponsorship and marketing rights in return for a £25 million interest-free loan. NTL will invest £5 million in Newcastle for an additional 3.6% stake; the repayment of its loan to the club… Continue reading NTL Unveils Media Partnership With Newcastle United
Sky Sports has secured a three-year deal with the Football Association of Ireland for the UK rights to Irish international games. Under the terms of the agreement the broadcaster will hold the live rights to all home internationals involving the Republic of Ireland up to the end of the 2002 season, all home World Cup… Continue reading Sky Sports Gains Irish Football Rights
US publishing giant, Gannett, has written to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to seek permission to make formal takeover bid for UK regional newspaper publisher, Newscom. Gannett has decided to find out whether a Competition Commission investigation would prevent such a takeover before placing a formal offer with the Stock Exchange.Earlier in the… Continue reading Gannett Seeks Permission To Bid For Newscom
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has acquired a 10% stake in UK computer games portal and community, gameplay.com. As part of the deal, Sky and gameplay have entered into a strategic alliance through which Gameplay will become BSkyB’s computer and video games ecommerce partner across Sky’s online interests, including www.sky.co.uk. The partnership includes Gameplay committing to a… Continue reading BSkyB Buys Into Gaming Portal
Cable company NTL has this morning announced a major carriage contract with pay-TV programme supplier Flextech. The deal gives NTL access to all of Flextech’s channels, including the UKTV portfolio of stations produced in partnership with the BBC. There will also be a joint marketing initiative set up to promote the channels and particularly their… Continue reading NTL Signs Major Carriage Deal With Flextech
