BARB (Broadcaster’s Audience Research Board) is issuing a formal invitation to tender for the new Audience Measurement Contract. Submissions to tender should be made to the chief executive at BARB, and formal negotiations for the contract will begin with those groups that convince BARB they have a serious interest in submitting a tender.The research contract… Continue reading BARB Puts Audience Measurement Contract Out To Tender
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
The Evening Standard is to sell its Hot Tickets listing supplement on the newsstands each Friday, beginning today.The weekly listings guide is included free with Associated Newspapers’ Evening Standard each Thursday. The Friday edition, which costs 85p, is aimed at people who may not normally buy the paper or who have missed the Thursday edition.… Continue reading Standard To Sell Hot Tickets On Newsstands
Coverage from MediaTel’s inaugural Media Question Time has now been gathered together on one page. This includes audio, video, photographs and news stories from the event.The Media Question Time page can be accessed by clicking here, or by clicking on the icon at the top of today’s news stories.
Revenue Total terrestrial revenue for April 1999 (including GMTV) according to agency estimates was £233.02 million. ITV’s total revenue was £161.5 million, a 2.4% drop since the same time last year. Channel 4’s revenue remained nearly stable at £50.77 million for April 1999 (April 1998: £50.79 million), and Channel 5’s total revenue grew by 22.6%… Continue reading TV Round-Up – April 1999
This week ITV decided to show another hour long edition of their second main soap Emmerdale. Usually this acts as a good ratings weapon against BBC1’s Eastenders, although this time the soap that suffered was Channel 4’s Brookside.Tuesday’s feature length Emmerdale centred on Rachel Hughes finally twigging that her boyfriend Graham is a complete lunatic… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 16/05/99
Investors appear to have been unimpressed with Carlton Communications interim results released yesterday, which reported losses of nearly £50 million due to its digital television interests (see Newsline). Carlton fell 21p yesterday to 531˝p. This morning, Carlton’s share price had dropped further to 520˝p.Independent Newspapers held its annual general meeting yesterday, during which it was… Continue reading Sharewatch
Last night’s Champion’s League Final between Manchester United and Bayern Munich proved to be a ratings winner for ITV. According to unofficial figures released by the Network Centre, a peak audience of 18.8 million people watched United steal the match with virtually the last kick. The average audience for the match was 15.5 million.Last night’s… Continue reading Man Utd’s Cup Successes Boost ITV Figures
Total terrestrial revenue for April 1999 (including GMTV) according to agency estimates was £233.02 million. Both ITV and GMTV suffered losses in revenue, losing 2.4% and 9.5% year on year respectively. Channel 4’s revenue remained fairly stable during April 1999, and Channel 5’s total revenue grew by 22.6% year on year.LWT increased its share of… Continue reading TV Round-Up – April 1999
