Agency estimates for October 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue (including GMTV’s) at £277.28 million. Year on year ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 all show increases in their ad revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s Adults impacts dropped year on year for October, by 5.4% to 26,387; all categories bar Housewives/Children… Continue reading TV Round-Up – October 1998
The cost of Southnews’ aborted takeover of Home Counties Newspapers (HCN) (see Southnews Launches £59m Home Counties Bid) was £500,000 the group has announced in its first half financial results today. Southnews’ bid for Home Counties was toppled at the last minute by Eastern Counties Newspapers with bough HCN for £58.3 million (see Home Counties… Continue reading Profits Up At Southnews
Global media services agency, Zenith Media, has released the first edition of its Top UK Media Owners research. Like the company’s Top 50 European Media Owners it has an essay on each owner complete with financial data about the company.Owners are ranked by media-related revenue which makes United News & Media top of the pile… Continue reading UNM Comes Top Of Zenith Media Owners List
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has announced the formation of a new company to investigate and manage media investments in continental Europe.News Corp Europe will be based in Milan and chaired by Mrs Letizia Moratti, the former chairman of Italian state broadcaster RAI.Mr Murdoch also announced that News Corp Europe, along with French TV company… Continue reading Murdoch In New Europe Media Move
It is believed that two significant players in the internet industry, America Online (AOL) and Netscape, are on the verge of merging. AOL will reportedly spend around two and half billion pounds to acquire the web browser company.If the deal goes ahead, it would be a significant boost for Netscape as its browser software is… Continue reading Netscape And AOL May Merge
A new web audit by ABC //electronic has confirmed that BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/) is still the UK’s most-visited site. During October the website recorded 46,779,865 page impressions, the majority of which were accessing the Corporation’s news pages.Head of BBC Online, Mark Frost, said: “These figures demonstrate the enormous demand for a public service BBC Online… Continue reading BBC Online Still Busiest UK Website
Monday Regional newspaper publisher, Southnews, releases interim financial results today.A TV Round-Up for October will be available on Newsline shortly.Wednesday Leisure and television group, Granada, releases its finals. Granada still holds a 4.28% stake in BSkyB which it is expected to dispose of sometime soon as the two groups are strong rivals in the digital… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Associated New Media (ANM), the online arm of Associated News & Media, is to launch a personal finance website, www.thisismoney.co.uk/, early in the new year. This follows in its This Is… series of sites which have been developed across the country.The website is to target the same middle market of consumers as the group’s Daily… Continue reading Associated New Media Launches Personal Finance Website
Carlton Communications has this afternoon announced that its discussions with Arsenal Football Club, with a view to a takeover, have been terminated. It was thought that talks were at an advanced stage although no financial consideration had been mentioned (see Arsenal and Carlton Update).It is understood that Arsenal is in talks with United News &… Continue reading Carlton Calls Off Arsenal Takeover Talks
The EC is expected to decide whether it will adopt guidelines for the evaluation of state aid to public television channels in the EU before the end of this year. However, in the face of strong opposition from MS, the Commission’s DGXV is to consult private sector broadcasters on current proposals. Following a number of… Continue reading EU: EC Guidelines For Public TV Financing
