The Radio Authority (RA) has been exonerated from allegations of misconduct made last year about the way in which the Authority awarded its licences. John Norrington, the former secretary of the RA, made the accusations, some of which were repeated by BBC Newsnight (see Newsline). The allegations involved the awarding of the East England regional… Continue reading RA Cleared Of Allegations Of Misconduct
BSkyB has committed £6 million to a new social marketing campaign called Reach For The Sky. The initiative is aimed at providing 14-16 year olds with careers advice, and has the backing of the Department for Education and Employment. IPC Magazines has promoted Cathy Neale, head of classified sales, to classified advertisement sales director Scottish… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Haymarket Publications, publisher of Marketing, Campaign and now Stuff, has acquired the title Human Resources from Martin Leach Publishing Group. Martin Leach said of the title: “You reach a point in life where you take something as far as you want to.”Human Resources has a controlled circulation of 28,000 and 1,000 subscriptions, and increased its… Continue reading Haymarket Acquires Human Resources
ONdigital has announced a joint venture with SDN, a consortium in which United News is a member, to launch a pay-per-view service to launch on digital terrestrial television. The new service will be available later this year, and make available movies, sports and other events on a pay-as-you-go basis.The service will use up to 5… Continue reading ONdigital To Launch Pay-Per-View
The Mirror Group, which recently rejected a bid from Trinity worth around £1 billion (see Newsline), lost 2p from its share price by the close of trading. The group releases is financial results today, details to follow on Newsline.Portsmouth & Sunderland, currently being bid for by range of media groups, gained 25p on its share… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Mirror Group confirmed to Newsline this afternoon that it has abandoned plans to relaunch its title The Sporting Life.The group merged the title into The Racing Post early last year (see Newsline), but maintained that it intended to relaunch the title as the first daily sports-only newspaper.It emerged today however that the group will… Continue reading Mirror Group Abandons Plans To Relaunch Sporting Life
Newscom, which reported its interim results today (see Newsline) dropped 26p from its share price by the close of trading yesterday, ending the day at 749p.Sky’s shares fell 8žp by the close of trading yesterday to 562˝p, amidst speculation that its reported talks with Canal Plus had broken down over management issues (see Newsline). This… Continue reading Sharewatch
This week is the last in which News At Ten will feature in the ITV schedule. ITV axes ITN’s famous news bulletin this Friday (see Newsline), and ITN is launching Now Web Radio, which is a live radio webcast made specifically for the internet.The web broadcast, which at the moment is a trial, will be… Continue reading ITN Launches Live Web Radio Broadcast
Latest data from CAA/EDI shows cinema admissions for January 1999 fell substantially year on year, dropping by 29.7% compared to January 1998. Compared to December 1998, when cinema admission stood at 8.9 million, admissions for January 1999 rose by 15.2% to 10.2 million.Average weekly admission during January 1999 were 2.31 million.
Newscom, which used to be called Southern Newspapers (see Newsline) released its interim results this week for the twenty-six weeks ended 16 December 1998.The group reported a 17.8% increase in turnover, rising to £70.1 million. Earnings per share were 25.30p, and pre-tax profit stood at £9.3 million.Newspaper advertising revenue rose by 9.1% for the group,… Continue reading Newscom Reports Interim Results
