Carol Dukes, joint managing director of EMAP Online, will be leaving the company to join Carlton Communications as head of its new company, Carlton Online.As well as developing new sites and online business opportunities, Carlton Online will coordinate the broadcaster’s existing websites. It is also expected that the new arm will help develop interactive services… Continue reading Dukes To Head Up New Carlton Business
The difficulty of surviving in the new media environment was highlighted this week by the announcement that Lowe Howard-Spink has closed its Lowe Digital department. It is expected that the unit will be relaunched as a strategic consultancy in the next few months.The closure was blamed on the difficulty of making money from the competetive… Continue reading Lowe To Relaunch Digital Arm
Total terrestrial television was estimated to have brought in ad revenue of £198.61 million. Of this, ITV brought in £138.64m (down 6.4% year on year), C4 £43.9m (down 0.2%), C5 £10.57m and GMTV £5.5m (down 14.1%).There was little change among the ITV franchise holders, with only LWT showing a substantial change in revenue share –… Continue reading TV Revenue – March
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has decided to hold a meeting with BSkyB and British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) following their dispute over digital set-top box technology.Last week Sky issued a writ claiming that BDB had broken an agreement between the two companies by choosing decoder technology which is incompatible with Sky’s services; BDB denied that… Continue reading ITC Attempts To Smooth Set-Top Box Dispute
NTL Internet has announced the acquisition of NetChannel UK, the internet-TV access and content provider, for $1 million.NetChannel will now become a division of NTL Internet, providing web-TV across all of NTL’s cable franchises. These include areas such as the South-East of England and the main cities of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.It has been… Continue reading NTL Buys NetChannel UK
Virgin Radio ‘s new DJ Ray Cokes has launched a new slot on the station’s FM wavelength. London Calling began broadcasting in the South East at the weekend and will run from Sunday-Thursday between 6:45pm and 7:30pm. It is described as an “exciting blend of celebrity chat, live music and spontaneous outside broadcasts.”Cokes, who previously… Continue reading Ray Cokes Gets New FM Virgin Show
In an unexpected and late development to the takeover saga of Home Counties Newspapers, the company’s ruling shareholders today agreed to sell the local publisher to Eastern Counties Newspapers.Although Eastern’s bid of £58.3 million is just short of the £59 million offer which Southnews announced yesterday (subscribers see Southnews Launches £59m Home Counties Bid), Home… Continue reading Home Counties Surprise Sell To Eastern
The Radio Authority has said that between January and March of this year it received 60 complaints about advertising and sponsorship issues, of which 15 were upheld. 7 of these related to misleading ads, 4 to offensive content, 1 was deemed to be harmful, 1 related to sponsorship issues and 2 to other matters.There were… Continue reading 60 Ad Complaints Received By RA
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has announced that its director, Ray Hall, has left the organisation. Hall has been at the ABC for three years during which he developed its Verified Free Distribution (VFD) system.Hall also played a key role in the bulk sales dispute between the ABC, News International and the Mirror Group… Continue reading Ray Hall Leaves ABC
Coronation Street‘s storyline involving a transsexual character caused the ITC to receive ten viewer complaints. Complainants believed that the storyline was inappropriate for broadcast during Family Viewing Time. However, the ITC believed that the programme did not sensationalise the subject, and that the way in which it was treated did not go beyond general information… Continue reading Corrie’s Transsexual Storyline Receives Complaints
