Revenue Revenue estimates for January 1999 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £198.5 million. ITV’s total revenue increased by 6.4% year on year, rising to a total of £138.5 million. Channel 4’s total ad revenue stood at £43.2 million in January 1999, a rise of 9.3% from the year before. Channel 5 added 24.3%… Continue reading TV Round-Up – January 1999
Revenue Revenue estimates for January 1999 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £198.5 million. ITV’s total revenue increased by 6.4% year on year, rising to a total of £138.5 million. Channel 4’s total ad revenue stood at £43.2 million in January 1999, a rise of 9.3% from the year before. Channel 5 added 24.3%… Continue reading TV Round-Up – January 1999
The ongoing battle between BSkyB and ITV, involving ITV’s refusal to allow Sky to carry its channels on its digital service, looks set to become a political issue as both broadcasters prepare to attend a meeting with MP’s to discuss the issue.The row was sparked last year when ITV executives refused to allow ITV, and… Continue reading BSkyB and ITV Channel Row Prepares To Go To Commons
LondonTown.Com Any city guide worth its salt has to be accurate, up-to-date and, above all else, comprehensive. LondonTown.com, the ‘Official Internet Site for London’, represents London Tourist Board’s online attempt to meet all of these prerequisites.Breaking the guide roughly into ‘Where To Stay’, ‘Museums’, ‘Attractions’, ‘Pubs’, ‘Restaurants’, ‘Events’, ‘Shopping’, ‘Sightseeing’, ‘Entertainment’, ‘Nightclubs’, ‘Transport’, ‘Recreation’, and… Continue reading Website Of The Week – LondonTown.com
The Sun has renewed its sponsorship of the popular ITV show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? for its third series, which will be broadcast in March this year.The series peaked at just over 18 million viewers (see Newsline).Throughout the sponsorship deal The Sun will run its own interactive game through the newspaper, to maximise… Continue reading The Sun Shines On ITV’s Millionaires
The most impressive price increase yesterday was achieved by Emap, which added rose 55p, increasing to 1315p by the close of trading yesterday. The publisher saw a slight increase in overall circulation across its consumer titles according to the latest ABC audit (Subscribers see full item in Press features list).The media group Pearson has sold… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Mirror Group has today announced that it is to go into partnership with the internet provider Zip2. The deal is part of the expansion of Mirror Group’s internet activities, with a view to enhancing their growth potential in regional and local media services.The deal will make Mirror Group the first European company to use… Continue reading Mirror Group Teams Up With Zip2
Internet traffic is to overtake voice traffic in the year 2000, according to the latest report by Datamonitor, which shows that IP (Internet provider) traffic is increasing by 1000% per month. PSTN (public switched telephone network) on the other hand, is showing a growth of under 10%.Datamonitor also predicts that the growing reliance of enterprises… Continue reading ‘Internet Traffic Increases 1000% Year On Year’ Says Datamonitor
IPC’s Music & Sport Group publisher Keith Foster is to take responsibility for the Link House title Mountain Biker International, in addition to his current role as publisher of IPC’s cycling titles. IPC bought Link House Media late last year for an undisclosed sum (see Newsline). Alistair Pegg has moved up from assistant editor to… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Annual consumer direct mail expenditure increased by 16% during 1998, rising to £1.5 billion, according to the latest Direct Mail Expenditure Survey released by MMS Market Movements.Direct mail is currently one of the fastest growing advertising media, with more companies than ever using it to target consumers. 50% of all mail was used to target… Continue reading Direct Mail Advertising Expenditure Rises 16% During 1998
