Agency estimates put terrestrial TV revenue for March at £192.070m, which is an increase of 5.83% on the previous year. Of this, ITV brought in £148.070m and Channel 4 £44m. Impacts for March all showed year on year falls in impacts, with Housewives/Children dropping by 12.9% to 5,504. Women showed the next biggest fall with… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The Radio Authority is inviting comments from interested parties on the public interest considerations which apply in regards to First Oxfordshire Radio Company Ltd’s proposed acquisition of Mix 96 .First Oxfordshire Radio owns Fox FM which broadcasts in Oxford and Banbury. Mix 96, also broadcasts on FM, is currently owned by Bucks Broadcasting Ltd and… Continue reading Radio Mix Up
European digital television service providers will share an $11 billion market by 2002 according to a new report from strategic business analysts Datamonitor. This coincides with news of BSkyB’s joint digital venture with BT (see yesterday’s Newsline).The report suggests that there will be almost 20 million digital TV households in Europe by 2002, compared with… Continue reading Euro Digital TV Set To Become Billion Dollar Industry
Sue Moseley, strategic planning director, TSMSTime after time, we know TV advertising works. The fact that it has grown into a 2.5 billion pound business is proof of that. However, there are still a great number of unknowns such as whether in large, stable, fmcg, markets advertising does actually produce incremental sales in the short… Continue reading You Read, You Watch, You Listen, You Buy – Don’t You?
Laser Satellite & Cable has said that it will be running Turtlewax advertorials on Granada Sky Broadcasting’s Men and Motors programme strand. The two minute advertorials, produced by GSB, will go out at midnight on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Turtlewax has also bought airtime to support the advertorials. CIA Media Solutions concluded the deal with… Continue reading Laser Satellite And Cable To Use Advertorials
The Radio Authority has received 13 applications for the new regional licence that will serve the Solent region. One application, SFX 105.2FM was submitted by DMG Radio Ltd, a subsidiary of the Daily Mail and General trust. The Authority is now inviting comments from interest parties, and the public, on the ‘public interest’ implications of… Continue reading Cross Media Public Interest Case
Tim Wootton is leaving his position as chairman of TSMS to join Zenith as non-executive chairman. He will be replaced by David Arculus, the chief operating officer at United News & Media. Arculus has had only a brief stay at TSMS’s parent company, which he joined from EMAP at the end of February (subscribers see… Continue reading TSMS Chairman Leaves For Zenith
Reed Elsevier and Microsoft have announced a strategic alliance which will see Bill Gates’s company take a key role in all of Reed’s future New Media ventures. The five-year agreement is valued at approximately $30 million.As well as helping the publisher to develop its new Websites, the agreement also means that all of Reed’s 26,000… Continue reading Microsoft And Reed Announce $30m Alliance
