Reuters rose by 35p to 903˝p yesterday following reports that it is preparing to move into online retail stockbroking.Radio group GWR, which yesterday announced the launch of a free internet access service, climbed 1˝p to 461˝p yesterday.BSkyB fell by 1˝p to 594˝p despite press reports that its digital TV service is signing up customers at… Continue reading Sharewatch
Talk Radio has announced a two year deal today which gives the station exclusive radio coverage for all of Manchester United’s home games in European competitions. The deal will cover the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons, and will make Talk the only station to broadcast every Manchester United game in European tournaments. The matches will also… Continue reading Talk Secures Broadcast Rights To All European Man Utd Games
The Sun is launching a website dedicated its Page 3 Girls. The site, at page3.com, can be accessed by registering with the paper’s currantbun.com internet service provider. Media planning and research agency, BMP OMD, has appointed Jo Foster as its new director of strategy and research. The group is planning to increase the amount of… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Press Holdings’ chief executive, Bert Hardy, is to step down from the post to assume a non-executive role. The company, which publishes the Scotsman and Sunday Business amongst other titles, said that Hardy is recuperating following an operation.Andrew Neil, editor in chief at Press Holdings, will now take on the additional role of publisher with… Continue reading Press Holdings Chief Steps Down
Radio group GWR has today announced the launch of a free internet access service which will be offered to Classic FM and GWR listeners across the UK. The company claims that the launch of Classic Freenet will make GWR the first UK radio operator to become a free internet service provider (ISP).The move by GWR… Continue reading GWR Becomes First Radio Group To Offer Free Net Access
Press reports that BSkyB’s digital TV service is signing up customers at the rate of 10,000 a day, caused Granada, owner of rival DTV service, ONdigital, to fall back by 43p to 1,163p. BSkyB closed unchanged at 596p on Friday.Cable & Wireless, which concluded its takeover of Japanese group International Digital Communications last week and… Continue reading Sharewatch
Tuesday The Media Research Group (MRG) Evening Meeting will examine the results of the First Impressions study carried out by Recall and GMTV which investigated the level of recall viewers have for television ads.Questions addressed by the study include: ‘Do longer ads have higher recall?’; ‘Is a centre break better than an end break?’ and… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Haymarket’s new internet title, The Net, hit the newsstands at the end of last week, adorned with the gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones. This clearly demonstrates that a pretty face sells, as the only mention of Zeta-Jones in this issue is in a review of her movie. The magazine aims to show people around the ‘world wide… Continue reading First Issue Review – The Net
Consumer publisher Future Network has revealed investors will be able to snap up its shares for £3.85 each when it makes its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week. This values the group at £577.5 million. 30% of Future will be offered in the flotation this Friday, with 38 million new shares expected to… Continue reading Price Set For Stake In Future
News International has cut the cover price of the Sun to just 10p in the Carlton television region, starting today. The promotion applies to every edition of the red-top paper and is set to run indefinitely. The Sun currently has a circulation of 3.7 million, making it Britain’s most-read daily newspaper.The cut in price for… Continue reading Sun Drops Cover Price To 10p In Carlton Region
