United News & Media, which owns the Express newspapers and three ITV franchises: Meridian, Anglia and HTV, has announced headline revenues today in its preliminary results for 1998, of £2,006 million, an increase of 9.7 from last year. Headline pre-tax profits increased by 1.1% to £290.2 million, and headline earnings per share were up 1.2%… Continue reading United News & Media Reports Slight Growth
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has concluded that Scottish 2 Television’s proposal to provide a digital terrestrial programme service for the Scottish and Grampian regions would not be against the public interest. The ITC invited public views at the beginning of the year on the proposed launch from Scottish 2 Television, which is a subsidiary… Continue reading ITC Concludes Public Consultation On Scottish Digital Programme Service
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
The Mirror Group, which has been in the spotlight recently due to a number of takeover bids for the group (see Newsline) released its financial results for 1998 today. The group reported an annual turnover of £697 million (1997: £559 million), and pre tax profit increased by 9% from £92 million to £100 million. Underlying… Continue reading Mirror Group Reports Pre-Tax Profit Of £100 Million
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
