Fast-expanding regional publisher Southern Newspapers posted a big leap in profits as it unveiled plans to change its name and move to the main stock market.The company is planning to change its name to News Communications & Media, which in turn, will be shortened to NewsCom. This change has to be approved by shareholders at… Continue reading Southern Gets New Name For New Era
Agency estimates for August 1998 put total terrestrial TV (including GMTV) ad revenue at £166.98 million. Year on year, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 show increases in revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s total revenue was up by 12.9% to £118.3 million, C4’s rose by 11.2% to £35.0 million and C5’s revenue… Continue reading TV Revenue – August 1998
British Interactive Broadcasting (the joint venture formed by BT, BSkyB, Midland Bank and Matsushita to provide digital TV interactive services) has announced some reorganisation of its management team amid confusion as to whether it is to supply access to the internet for television viewers.The key appointments are as follows… Peter Hopper joins as commercial director,… Continue reading Reorganisation At BiB
A decision on the future of The European is yet to be made after speculation today that discussions between the paper and Bloomberg Business News have broken down. The paper was believed to be considering options of a business partnership from both Bloomberg and Times Warner (see Newsline).A spokesperson for The European told Newsline this… Continue reading European Discussions Continue
The Asian channel, Zee TV,has been formally warned by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) as it has repeatedly failed to comply in the areas of advertising content and scheduling.Rules have been breached seven times since the end of 1995, and the broadcaster failed to respond to enquiries within time limits set by ITC staff. Interventions… Continue reading Zee TV Receives A Warning
A new survey out this week shows that although digital TV awareness is high, with 75% of respondents having heard of it, 58% confessed to having little or no knowledge of it.Research company GfK Marketing Services has published the results of its monthly omnibus survey into the launch of digital TV. The survey was carried… Continue reading GfK Predicts The Future Of Digital Television
IPC Magazines has restructured its music and lifestyle publishing and marketing team. This follows last week’s news that Adrian Pettett had been appointed as the new publisher of Loaded (see Loaded Finds A New Publisher).Neil Robinson has been promoted to associate publisher of NME, Melody Maker and NME.COM. Bruce Sandall, associate publisher of Muzik, also… Continue reading IPC Restructures Music And Lifestyle Team
Digital operators and broadcasters will be permitted to build TV sets that have the software needed to receive their services embedded into the set. This will allow broadcasters to market and sell hardware which is specifically designed to receive their digital services.This ruling is announced by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) this morning and follows… Continue reading Digital Broadcasters Allowed To Build Proprietary TV Sets
Virgin Records UK, www.vmg.co.uk, recorded 5.5 million page impressions, 436,257 users and 742,695 visits from 1-30 June, according to an ABC// electronic audit. This certificate makes Virgin Records the first major record company to have received a web audit.Danny Van Emden commented on the certificate: “This figure shows that we can deliver to a very… Continue reading Virgin Website Scores
Retail company Kingfisher has made a counter bid for the video, music and book publishing company VCI, following the initial offer of £31 million by Scottish Media Group (see Newsline).Kingfisher has offered £46.8 million for VCI, 120p per share, outbidding SMG by 50%. VCI is advising its shareholders to sit tight until SMG reacts to… Continue reading Battle For VCI Mounts
