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Bringing its recent investment in new media to $10m, WPP Group has entered into a corporate partnership with Media Technology Ventures (MTV) – a US investment company specialising in information and entertainment technology start-ups. Other investors in MTV include Motorola Multimedia Group (broadband communications and cable modems provider), STET (telecommunications holding company), Justsystems Inc (applications… Continue reading WPP Partners Interactive Investment Company

According to the latest CIA MediaLab survey, Good Housekeeping is the brand that adults would most like to see being turned into a TV show. This comes as the ITC is considering relaxing its rules on “masthead programming”: at the moment a TV show can be turned into a magazine but a magazine cannot be… Continue reading Support Shown For Good Housekeeping TV Show

September’s cinema admissions show a 22.4% decrease year-on-year, averaging 1.85 million per week. This brings the third quarter average to 2.62 million per week, a 1% increase on last year. The monthly total for September was 7.925 million.Top grossing film of the month was once again Independence Day, taking £7.7m, followed by a relatively strong… Continue reading September Cinema Admissions Fall

Kenneth Clark, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, this morning announced that interest rates would rise 0.25% to 6%. This is the first time there has been a rise for nearly two years. Mr Clarke said the move was designed to “maintain a firm grip on inflation.”

Revenue According to agency estimates total TV ad revenue for September reached £184.71m, an increase of 2.29% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue remained reasonably static, increasing 0.18% to £141.71m, while Channel 4 rose by 9.9% to £43m. The ratio between ITV and Channel 4 for September was 77:23.Overall among the ITV contractors there was very little change.… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September

The recently launched Orange mobile phone website has been designed in the same vein as their enigmatic television commercials with the emphasis on minimalism, using mainly orange and black & white graphics, lots of photographs of happy smiling people and not a capital letter in sight. The site is very concise and easy to navigate… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Orange

Northcliffe’s Plymouth Evening Herald and Gloucester Citizen this month won admittance to the IFRA Colour Club, the international body which sets technical standards for all aspects of newspaper production.Northcliffe’s titles are the first English newspapers to be admitted to the body. This year there were 71 applications from 22 countries. A spokeswoman at the regional… Continue reading Northcliffe Titles Win Accolade

According to agency estimates total TV ad revenue for September reached £184.71m, an increase of 2.29% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue remained reasonably static and reached £141.71m, while Channel 4 rose to £43m.Impacts were down across the board during September, with the largest drop being in the Housewives/Children category which fell by 11.4% year-on-year. ABC1 Adults experienced… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September

United News & Media is believed to be the front-runner in the bidding battle for control of Westcountry, the Plymouth-based ITV company.United is reported to have bid around the £75m mark, a greater sum than that offered by other contenders. The acquisition would give United a great deal of control in the southern UK TV… Continue reading United Heads Race For Westcountry

… Mike Baker, currently Divisional Advertising Marketing Director at IPC with responsibility for all IPC titles, is to join TDI Advertising as Marketing Director, directly replacing Adam Poulter who left in July to join Cinema Media. Baker will join TDI in mid December and will have responsibility across their whole portfolio. It is not clear… Continue reading TDI And Cinema Media Appointments