Contrary to trade press reports, the long-awaited daily sports title Sport First will not be launching in January. Editor Bob Harris told Newsline that though the publication was editorially ‘sound’, financial and print arrangements were unsatisfactory and would need to be significantly improved before a launch date was announced. Mr Harris said that negotiations were… Continue reading Sport First Hopes For Launch Next Year
The Christian cable channel Ark2 will have to delay its launch since it has failed to secure enough money to cover its costs.The channel was due to broadcast in October * Christian Cable Channel To Launch and then this was postponed until November 25 which now also seems unlikely. It is not clear whether the… Continue reading Ark2 In Financial Crisis
Media Audits, the advertising consultancy, is to launch a new service early next year to help direct response advertisers get better value from their TV ad campaigns.The new service will link response levels with advertising spots and will be based on a pool of information on clients’ DRTV campaigns including channel, spot duration, transmission time,… Continue reading Media Audits Launches DRTV Evaluation Service
Carlton television, the London weekday ITV franchise, is to move Australian soap opera Home & Away back to its original 5.10pm evening slot from 6.00pm starting Monday November 25th.The move is being made to accommodate several new early evening programmes that will be starting in that week, these include two editions of Carlton’s soap London… Continue reading Home & Away Moves Again
General Cable, the fifth largest cable operator in the UK, experienced increased losses in the nine months to the end of September, reaching £19.1 million compared to £14.8m last year, while revenues increased and churn decreased from 31% to 23%.As with most cable companies at present, most of General Cable’s losses were attributable to the… Continue reading General Cable Losses Worsen
The Channel Television group, Channel Islands Communications, has announced pre-tax profits for the six months to September of £653,000, which is the best first half trading performance in the company’s history.Group chairman Major John Riley referred to strong growth in local ad revenue and said that overall turnover is up 12% on the same period… Continue reading Channel TV Posts Record Results
According to press reports BSkyB is in talks with HSBC, the banking group that owns Midland Bank, regarding a joint deal which would offset some of the costs of digital satellite TV.It is believed that the plans involve BSkyB offering banking services via its satellite system in return for subsidies to its set-top decoding box.… Continue reading BSkyB Talks To Bank Over Digital Deal
Foote Cone & Belding has announced that it will be setting up a media department in a bid to create a new dimension to its current services. FCB, which set up Optimedia in 1990 to handle media buying and planning, has appointed Rhona Tridgell from the Network to head up the new department. The venture… Continue reading New Media Department For FCB
Several cable companies are believed to be in the process of launching their own pay-per-view movie services as direct competition to BSkyB’s proposed plans. In what is another step in the current trend to break away from the BSkyB dominance of the pay television, the cable companies are said to be in negotiation with several… Continue reading Cable Companies Attempt Their Own Pay-Pay-View Deal
Confirmation that an £800,000 writ had been issued by YTTV against CIA over financial wranglings *YTTV Issues Writ Against CIA sent CIA’s normally stable shareprice down during the week. On Monday shares were at their normal price of 143p but by Friday this had dropped to 132.5p. YTTV dropped 3p to 1297p on Tuesday but… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 15/11/96
