TuesdayThe Retail Prices Index for August will be announced.NRS data for August will be released and featured on Newsline.ThursdayMonitoring Media Performance conference, City Conference Centre, London.Also this week: Website of the Week will cover the Daily Telegraph ‘s Juiced site and there will also be a Web Round-Up looking at the latest developments in the… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Revenue Agency estimates put August’s terrestrial television revenue at £143 million. ITV brought in a total of £104.8m, up 3.9% year on year, while Channel 4 came in at £31.5m, up 0.5%. Channel 5’s revenue was estimated to be £6.7m, down from £8m last month. GMTV’s revenue fell 8% to £5.3m.There were relatively minor year… Continue reading TV Round-Up – August
BT is still considering its next move following WorldCom’s surprise bid for MCI earlier this week. WorldCom’s offer, which threatens to scupper the BT/MCI merger plans, is thought to be in the region of $30m which is around $9m more than BT’s.BT’s move on MCI, which was first announced in November last year (subscribers see… Continue reading BT Considers Options
The Rugby Football Union has announced that Carlsberg-Tetley is to sponsor the sport with involvement at all levels from the national team right down to the local clubs.Amongst their sponsorship package are the National Knockout Cup, now called the Tetley’s Bitter Cup, and the Tetley’s Bitter County Championship. The company will more than double the… Continue reading Carlsberg-Tetley Announce Rugby Sponsorship
Football seems to be the flavour of the week, with plenty of round ball fun to be seen across the spectrum of channels. At the top of the list stands the Newcastle v Barcelona game, shown by ITV Sport on Wednesday night, and watched by an audience of 8.91 million. The UEFA Cup game between… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 21/09/97
Overall it was a poor month for the national newspaper industry with just five titles showing year on year increases in readership – four of these were broadsheets. The Sunday Telegraph led the way with an increase of almost 15% year on year to 2.36 million while the Guardian rose over 6% to 1.346 million.… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – August
Pearson are contemplating selling their 4% stake in BSkyB if their offer of £233m for US television production company All American comes off. A spokeswoman for Pearson said the sale of the BSkyB stake, and the possible sale of other broadcasting company stakes held by Pearson, would be completed in order to further distance the… Continue reading Pearson May Sell Stakes In TV Companies
Maid, the online information provider, has announced that it will be taking over its formal rival Knight-Ridder Information.The deal, worth £261m, will see Maid become the world’s largest online information company as it changes its name to the Dialog Corporation when it begins trading next month. Dan Wagner, founder of Maid, will become chief executive… Continue reading Maid Acquisition To Go Ahead
Some of the shares in GWR Group which were placed up for sale by Capital Radio earlier this week (subscribers see Capital Sells GWR Stake) have been bought by the music group EMI.EMI has secured 4 million shares in GWR Group taking their stake in the company to just under 14 per cent. The £6.8m… Continue reading EMI Buys GWR Shares
As reported in Campaign today a research study conducted by Ammirati Puris Lintas (APL) has revealed that 5 per cent of the sample would not be disappointed if they could no longer receive the channel. This is perhaps more ambivalence than outright dislike as 67 per cent questioned said they consider Channel 5 when planning… Continue reading Channel 5 Would Not Be Missed
