BSkyB and Warner Bros have signed a deal which will see the UK satellite broadcaster screen a raft of pay-per-view and near video-on-demand films on its Sky Box Office channel.It is planned that the movies from the Warner Bros studios will be shown several months in advance of screenings on the two existing Sky Movie… Continue reading BSkyB PPV Movies Confirmed
Film minister Tom Clarke announced at the British Video Association’s Awards Dinner that the first National Video Week will be held in July next year. The festival will aim to promote the £1.3bn British video industry which Clarke says is growing at more than twice the rate of inflation.Department For Culture, Media And Sport: 0171… Continue reading First National Video Week In ’98
Emap On Air, Capital Advertising, GWR Group and Scottish and Irish Radio Sales have joined forces to launch the biggest ever network sponsorship opportunity across UK commercial radio.The £2 million initiative to sponsor the ILR network’s coverage of World Cup France ’98 brings the sales houses together for the first time since they were formed… Continue reading Radio Sales Houses Join Forces For World Cup
Newsquest hit the stock market on Thursday at 250p and immediately rose 2p as it became apparent that the shares were oversubscribed. The float, at the lower end of the forecast 250p-290p, created a cash pile of around £100m and valued the company at £500m. It is estimated that 80% of Newsquest staff bought shares… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 17/10/97
Merrill Lynch is predicting that Saatchi & Saatchi plc, after its demerger from Cordiant (subscribers see Cordiant Confirms Demerger Plans), will increase its pre-tax profits from £14.7m in 1996 to £21.7m in 1997, £30.9m in 1998 and £39.9m in 1999. Turnover for the group will remain static however for 1997 at £384m, though revenue growth… Continue reading Predictions For Demerged Cordiant Businesses
Thursday Two new magazines launch: BBC Family Life and IPC’s Made Up! both launch, with reviews appearing on Newsline.Reuters release interim results which are expected to show a drop in revenue from £736m to £685m, mainly due to the strength of sterling.Friday Q3 Rajar figures are released at noon, with analysis reports and full tables… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Propeller Marketing Communications published its latest ‘Ads That Make The News’ survey today. The survey shows that Trevor Beattie’s Wonderbra ads generated more coverage in the national newspapers than any other in the third quarter. Beattie is the creative director of BDDP GGT ad agency. The Wonderbra ads received twelve dedicated news stories in the… Continue reading Ads In The News
Following wide speculation (subscribers see On Demand Plan Pay-Per-View Deal With Hollywood), the On Demand Management cable consortium is on the brink of sealing a pay-per-view movie deal with Hollywood film studio Warner Brothers. The On Demand group is representing Telewest, NTL, General Cable and Diamond Cable with Cable & Wireless Communications still teetering between… Continue reading On Demand Approach Warner Bros. Deal
A consortium of twenty-eight British on-line publishers including Condé Nast, The Guardian New Media Lab, Channel 4, and the Electronic Telegraph agreed to create a system of auditing online advertising revenue. This would represent the first accurate measure of the size of the British online advertising marketing.At last week’s meeting of the Interactive Advertising Group… Continue reading Online Publishers Form Advertising Research Group
Laser has confirmed to Newsline that the ITV sales houses, which also include TSMS and Carlton, are planning to change the way they trade airtime. The three companies have jointly agreed in principle to deal on the basis of share of broadcast rather than share of ITV.Laser: 0171 396 6000
