Telewest Communications is set to launch its long-awaited digital service on Thursday this week. As Britain’s second-largest cable company, it will beat rival NTL which has recently stalled similar plans. Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), meanwhile, began to roll-out its own service in the North West in July this year (see Cable & Wireless Communications… Continue reading Telewest Gets Set For Digital
Jazz FM reported a pre-tax loss of over £2 million in the latest financial results for its parent group, Golden Rose Communications, for the nine months ending 30 June. Chief executive Richard Wheatley said that performance had improved however and trading results for the current year would show an improvement.Pre-tax loss for the group over… Continue reading Jazz FM Predicts Better Performance As Losses Amount
Magazine publisher Cabal Communications has announced the appointment of four senior editorial staff and a business development director.Two new magazine projects for the group, announced last week (see Newsline Brief) have created four more editorial positions. Matt Snow and Lloyd Bradley will work together on one project. Both have distinguished careers; Snow has edited Emap… Continue reading Appointments At Cabal Ahead Of New Launches
For Better, For Worse, an LWT documentary which followed a number of couples as they prepared to get married, has been pulled up by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) for breaches of taste and decency.The programme, which was broadcast in May this year, followed a young woman as she went out on her hen night… Continue reading LWT Hen Night Documentary Pulled Up For Taste And Decency
Regional press sales house, The Word, has lost its chief executive Gavin Caldwell who resigned from the company this week. It is believed he became frustrated by the restrictions placed on the company. Channel 5 has given its support to a new online portal for the UK TV production industry, set to launch next month.… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Satellite television broadcaster, BSkyB, has announced a deal with number of major UK radio groups to broadcast their stations on the Sky Digital platform. From 20 November Sky Digital will offer 20 radio broadcasts, including three brand new digital stations from the GWR Group – The Mix, Planet Rock and Core.Sky, the first digital TV… Continue reading Major Radio Stations Join Sky Digital For Satellite Broadcast
Global marketing information and research group, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), has signed an agreement to use the new audience measurement technology developed by US group Arbitron. TNS will use Arbitron’s audio-encoding systems in its measurement of television audiences in the UK.Taylor Nelson, which supplies the TV viewing data to BARB, will use Arbitron’s technology in… Continue reading Taylor Nelson To Use New Audience Measurement Technology
GWR Group’s Digital Services division has today announced its plans for a multi-million pound launch of Europe’s first commercial digital radio stations – Planet Rock, Core and The Mix. Planet Rock and Core will begin broadcasting on Monday 15 November across the UK and Europe on the Digital One national commercial multiplex (see Digital One… Continue reading GWR Unveils Multi-Million Pound Digital Radio Stations Launch
Satellite broadcaster BSkyB dropped by 19p to 592˝p despite announcing stronger than expected subscriber figures for its Sky Digital service last week (see Sky Digital Reaches 1.8m Customers). BSkyB has this morning announced plans to broadcast 20 major UK radio stations via the digital satellite TV service (see Major Radio Stations Join Sky Digital For… Continue reading Sharewatch
An additional licence fee for digital television services would not breach EU regulations. A spokesperson for the European Commission denied reports earlier this week that proposals backed by the BBC to charge an extra £24 supplement for digital TV would breach state aid regulations.Stefan Rating, competition spokesman for the European Commission, said that it was… Continue reading BBC Digital Licence Fee Would Not Breach EU Rules
