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
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
The ITC received over 100 complaints from viewers over the JWT ad for Dairylea Dunkers. 115 viewers said that the campaign, which featured an animated dinosaur dipping an actress’s head into a cheese sauce and then putting her head in its mouth, was unsuitable for broadcast during children’s programming. A substantial number also said their… Continue reading Dairylea Dunkers Upsets Viewers
According to ITC audience share figures released today, Channel 5’s audience share stands at an average of 3.2% for the 12 month period ended 31 March 1998. This compares to only 2.3% average for the 12 month period ended 31 December 1997 – only three months earlier.For the same two reporting periods BBC1 fell from… Continue reading C5 Sees Audience Share Growth
BSkyB today announced interim financial results which revealed a 5.5% fall in pre-tax profits to £203.3 million. This was caused by a slowdown in subscriber growth along with the cost of launching its digital services and the Premier League football contract. In the first three months of the year only 2,500 new dish customers were… Continue reading Profits Fall At BSkyB
The MRG has announced the results of the elections for its Committee members for 1998/9. The following people were elected or re-elected: MRG Chair Belinda Beeftink, Telmar Membership Denise Gardiner, Leo Burnett Evening Meetings/MRG Mailings Hugh Johnson, Channel 4 Education Rosemary Taylor, Rosemary Taylor & Associates Social Sophie Mallick, Carlton Television Website Alison Mayersbeth, J… Continue reading MRG Committee Election Results
A new report by brokers Merrill Lynch predicts that the overall penetration of digital pay TV will rise from 24.7% in 1997 to 49% in 2005. Of this cable companies are likely to be the leaders with a predicted penetration of 21.5%, compared with 19.5% for DTH (direct to home, ie. satellite) and 8.25% for… Continue reading Merrill Lynch Predicts pay TV Penetration Will Reach 49% By 2005
