ITV sales house TSMS has made a number senior appointments following some management promotions earlier this year.Rosie Faulkner has left the company claiming that her role as marketing and sales director there did not utilise her strengths. Chief operating officer, Adam Rhodes, will take on her responsibilities temporarily until a replacement is found.Jill Kerslake has… Continue reading Senior Staff Moves At TSMS
Benckiser’s Finish brand is sponsoring the Livetime programme on the new Granada Breeze channel (see GSB Aims To Create Top Women’s Channel), which launched last Friday.Finish will also be renewing its sponsorship of Cook’s Garden, The Rosemary Conley Cookbook and Great British Food which were shown as part of Granada Good Life, Breeze’s previous incarnation.Granada… Continue reading Finish Sponsors Granada Breeze
The three most powerful European advertising associations will travel to Berlin to present the case against a tobacco ad ban to the 200 Euro-MPs of the European People’s Party, a week before the European Parliament votes on the subject in Brussels.The UK’s Advertising Association will join Germany’s Zentralverband der Deutschen Werbewirtschaft and the Netherlands’ Stichting… Continue reading European Ad Groups To Challenge Ad Ban
ITV marginally increases its viewing share for the third week running, taking 31.5% against BBC1’s 28.6%. Channel 5’s share drops below the 4% mark for the first time since early March.Where The Heart Is (10.31 million), ITV’s ‘premier’ drama, moves into its second week of a new series, with both Pam Ferris and Sarah Lancashire… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 26/04/98
Overall it was a bad NRS period for the national newspaper market, with all but three titles showing year on year falls.The Daily Star led the way with a fall in readership of 15.4% year on year to 1.849 million while the Daily Telegraph experienced a drop of almost 10% to 2.566 million. The Sunday… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – March
Capital Radio has announced that it has acquired from EMAP Radio the entire issued share capital of Cardiff-based Red Dragon FM for £18.25 million. This is Capital’s second buyout in under a week, following hot on the heels of a takeover bid for London’s Xfm (see Capital’s Xfm Move Dependent On Watchdogs).Trading under the name… Continue reading Capital Radio Acquires Red Dragon Radio
Telewest today announced quarter 1 financial results which showed a 22.2% year on year increase in revenue to £110 million while losses on ordinary activities before tax grew slightly to £70.225m.Cable TV customers grew 14% to over 617,000 while penetration slipped 0.1% points to 22.1%. There was also a disappointing increase in churn, which grew… Continue reading Revenue Grows At Telewest
The success of Titanic helped increase News Corporation’s revenue by 11% to US$3.2 billion for the quarter ended 31 March. After tax profits before abnormal items rose 10% to US$291m.The company also reported that its News International division experienced advertising and circulation growth for its Times and Sunday Times, though the Sun‘s circulation fell from… Continue reading News Corp Posts Strong Financial Results
Internet service provider Demon Internet has been bought by Scottish Telecom, a subsidiary of ScottishPower, for £66 million.Latest estimates suggest that Demon is the fourth largest UK internet service provider, with around 130,000 subscribers. Compuserve is the largest with around 350,000 subscribers.http://www.scottishpower.co.uk
Dean Weller, ex-strategic planning director at The Media Business, has teamed up with The Media Shop to create a new start-up company dedicated to handling children’s advertising. The First Age Media Company opened yesterday and is currently finalising projects with a number of clients.Weller says that his interest has always been in kids’ advertising which… Continue reading First Age Media Company To Target Children
