EMAP rose by 2p to 1,307p yesterday after it announced a 16% increase in operating profit (see Newsline) as well as reporting a downturn in revenue growth. Its recently launched weekly title Heat is understood to be selling below its target circulation of 100,000, at around 60,000.Both of ONdigital’s owners, Granada and Carlton Communications, enjoyed… Continue reading Sharewatch
EMAP’s UK consumer magazines division, which publishes the men’s market-leader FHM, has reported a 16% increase in operating profit, up from £56.1 million in 1998 to £64.9 million this year. This compares to an increase in ‘normalised’ pre-tax profit for the EMAP Group of 14% to £161.6 million for the year ended 31 March 1999.… Continue reading EMAP’s Consumer Mags Group Reports 16% Rise In Profit
In a new study of the impact of new technologies on media companies and traditional media, the European research company, MIB Group, has found that national newspaper publishers are likely to be the biggest winners from the emerging electronic technologies.MIB’s study reports that national papers have the ability to create an unrivalled number of new… Continue reading Daily Newspapers Will Benefit Most From New Media, Finds Survey
The readership figures for the national newspapers in April 1999 show that the majority of titles have continued their decline in readership, when compared to the same period last year. Nearly all of the Sundays suffered losses, with the exception of the Mail On Sunday , which increased its readership by 351,000 (6%).The Daily Mail… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – April 1999
Granada, owner of half of the digital TV group ONdigital which began its set-top box giveaway last Friday, rose by 11p to 1,278p by the close of trading that day. Carlton Communications, ONdigital’s joint owner, fell by 13p to 497˝p.Dialog, which announced a 7.8% increase in revenue from Q4 1998 in its first quarter results… Continue reading Sharewatch
Three quarters of UK company directors claim that in refusing to cut their marketing budgets in the latest recession they maintained or increased their market share, despite the economic downturn. These are the findings of new research by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).The CIM survey shows that 69% of companies have resisted the temptation… Continue reading Maintaining Marketing Spend In Recession Pays Off, Says CIM
The readership figures for the national newspapers in April 1999 show that the majority of title’s have continued their decline in readership, compared to the same period last year. Nearly all of the Sundays suffered losses in readership, with the exception of the Mail On Sunday .The Daily Mail and the Financial Times both enjoyed… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – April 1999
Two of the BBC’s popular dramas have been put under the spotlight in the latest report from the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC). Eastenders provoked 12 complaints when viewers were disturbed about the portrayal of violence in the the killing of Saskia and the subsequent disposal of her body.In its defence, the BBC argued that Eastenders… Continue reading Violence On BBC Provokes Complaints
Carlton Communications continued to fall yesterday, suffering a 21p drop in its share price to 510˝p. ONdigital, the joint digital TV venture owned by Carlton Communications and Granada, begins its set-top box giveaway today (see Newsline). Granada rose by 19p to 1267p.BSkyB, which is also gearing up to begin giving away its DTV set-top boxes,… Continue reading Sharewatch
At the beginning of last year, ITV chief executive Richard Eyre set the Network the target of taking 39% of peak-time viewing (1900-2230 hours) in 1999 and increasing this to 40% during 2000. The industry was taken aback by Eyre’s confidence, until it later emerged that he planned to meet these targets by completely changing… Continue reading ITV Viewing Share Flags As New Schedule Novelty Wears Off
