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
Despite their enduring popularity with adolescents, the four remaining Spice Girls proved to be less popular than their ex-band-mate Geri Halliwell when it came to fly-on-the-wall documentaries for Channel 4. The Spice Girls in America: A Tour Story pulled in just 2.68 million viewers in comparison to 4.37 million for Geri which was shown in… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 06/06/99
EMAP, which embarked on £2 million internet project earlier in the week, continued to fall yesterday, closing down 52p (4.3%) at 1,163p.Reed International shot up 20˝p to 446p on the back of speculation that a merger, possibly with Dutch rival Wolters Kluwer (see Speculation Surrounds Reed Elsevier’s Business Titles), could still be on the cards.A… Continue reading Sharewatch
Total terrestrial television revenue for May 1999 (including GMTV) stood at £219.65 million, according to agency estimates. Of this, ITV took £150.28 million, a 15.1% drop on May 1998. Channel 4’s revenue also dropped back, by 8.5%, to £49.41 million and Channel 5 showed an increase in revenue of 14% to £15.03 million.GMTV’s revenue fell… Continue reading TV Revenue – May 1999
Cable & Wireless Communications is to role out its digital television launch campaign in the north-west, starting on 1 July, the date the service starts broadcasting. The £20m push will begin with direct mail and local press ads and eventually be extended to include TV. The mailshots will be sent to all of CWC’s 850,000… Continue reading CWC Offers ‘More Than Just TV’ In £20m DTV Campaign
Poole-based group Freestyle Publications has acquired two new snowboarding titles to add to its current portfolio, which includes the recently launched Boys Toys (see Newsline). The new titles are Snowboard UK and The Snowboard Bible, which Freestyle purchased this week from Air Publications.Snowboard UK has a circulation of 7,000 and is published seven times a… Continue reading Freestyle Publications Acquires Snowboard Titles
