Scottish Radio Holdings has released its preliminary financial results for the year ending 30 September 1998, revealing a 17% increase in turnover, taking it up to £43.8 million for the year.Pre-tax profit rose 30% to £12.5 million, and earnings per share are at 29p, a rise of 26%.The group intends to apply for local digital… Continue reading Scottish Radio Group Announces 17% Increase In Turnover
New research by US company, Nielsen Media Research, has shown that in America, households that gain Internet access do not watch less TV than they did before going online.The study measures the relationship over time between gaining access to the Internet and TV usage. Using Nielsen’s National People Meter Sample, TV usage was measured both… Continue reading US Research Shows The Net Doesn’t Steal TV Viewers
Monday Scottish Radio Holdings releases its preliminary financial results for the year ending 30 September 1998.Tuesday Carlton Communications releases its annual results, likely to include an update on the group’s recently launched ONdigital DTT service.Wednesday NRS data for September is released. A look at the readerships of the national newspapers will be available on Newsline.Thursday… Continue reading The Week Ahead
www.Jamba.co.ukJamba is one of the three websites to have been launched by Carlton Online this month. Totally dedicated to games, trivia and general mental acrobatics, it is the ultimate refuge for office-bound bodies and computer spods seeking relief. It is, of course, bad news for employers who are destined to lose a considerable number of… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Jamba
According to figures just released by GfK Marketing Services, BSKyB sold an estimated 58,300 of its Sky Digital set-top boxes during October, the first month of its launch. During the same period only 3,100 units for Sky’s analogue service were sold.Sky Digital is hoping to have around 200,000 subscribers by the end of this year.… Continue reading Sky Shifts Almost 60,000 Digital Boxes In First Month
Regional newspaper group, Bristol United Press (BUP) has made £2.2 million from Wessex Newspapers, which it bought in October last year, in the six months ending 30 September 1998.BUP has also reported pre-tax profits of £11.4 million, up 64% on the same period last year. Turnover at the publisher stood at £36.7 million of which… Continue reading Bristol United Press Benefits From Wessex Acquisition
Dennis Publishing’s PC Zone has promoted its former deputy editor, Chris Anderson, to editor. The title’s former editor Jeremy Wells has left to go freelance. Channel 5 has announced a theme night called ‘Boyz Night In’, sponsored by Scalextric. It will be broadcast on 2 December and feature classic male orientated programmes including a vintage… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Victoria Wood’s decision to move out from stand-up to situation comedy appears to have paid off handsomely. Dinner Ladies featured the usual Wood suspects (Julie Walters, Celia Imrie and Duncan Preston) and, despite some negative reviews in the media, was watched by 12.24 million viewers. The BBC’s other big new comedy show of the week,… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 15/11/98
GWR has announced some reshuffles in its management ranks following its consortium – Digital One – being awarded the national commercial digital radio licence multiplex by the Radio Authority (see Newsline).Programme director Steve Orchard also becomes operations director of UK local radio. Orchard is to focus on developing local programming and commercial activities. He commented… Continue reading Re-Shuffle At GWR
Freeserve, the free internet service provider (ISP) launched by Dixons in September (see Dixons Launches Free Internet Service), has struck a deal with US-based internet advertising company, DoubleClick, for the latter to sell ad space on the Freeserve websites.DoubleClick UK’s managing director, Andy Mitchell, said: “We see Freeserve’s genuinely free offer of internet access as… Continue reading DoubleClick To Sell Ad Space On UK’s Fastest-Growing ISP
