As reported on Tuesday’s *WBTV Launch May Be Delayed, WBTV, the new Warner Brothers satellite channel, will not launch today.In a sparse joint statement with BSkyB, who is supposed to be carrying the channel, Warner says that it is having “difficulties” with the launch but will look to solve these in the near future. WBTV… Continue reading WBTV Launch Delayed
Ahead of today’s shareholder’s annual meeting BSkyB has announced three month figures to the end of September which show profit rising 31% to £66 million. Turnover also showed good growth, rising 24% to £266m.Subscribers to the company’s satellite service increased slightly, up 2.6% to 5.65 million. The strong figures gave BSkyB a much-needed boost on… Continue reading BSkyB Profits Rise 31%
Chrysalis Radio Sales has promoted two of its sales group heads to local sales managers. Tara Norveil and Andrew McCutcheon will now head the team selling airtime for Heart 106.2 in London.…In another radio move Radio Trent has recruited Steve Mayall to the position of sales manager. He was previously sales controller at Invicta.…Julian Downing,… Continue reading Sales Appointments Announced
Southern Newspapers has this afternoon announced a major review of its operating regions, structures and costs which effectively means its Bournemouth-based Central and Southampton-based Eastern publishing regions will merge.Titles in the new Southern region include the Southern Daily Echo, the Evening Echo Bournemouth, the Southampton Advertiser Series and the Dorset Advertiser Series. The review also… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Merges Regions
Media group EMAP has announced that it will be buying The Box, the cable TV music channel, for £8.3m.The Box is an interactive music channel playing videos selected by cable audiences from a specified playlist. It is available to over 90% of the UK’s 1.5 million cable homes where it has a weekly reach of… Continue reading EMAP Buys Into Youth Market
HTV has announced that it is to start showing live football again on terrestrial television from next month. Five Nationwide Football League matches will be shown on the West of England ITV franchise before Christmas, with more following in the New Year.Live matches to be shown include Bolton Wanderers visit to Swindon Town on December… Continue reading Live League Football Returns To Terrestrial Television
The CIA Group has said that it wants its dispute with Laser *YTTV And Granada Issue Writs Against CIA put before an independent body such as the ITC for arbitration.CIA is proposing to put £832,453, the amount which Laser is claiming it is owed, into an account from which it would pay the sales house… Continue reading CIA Looks To ITC For Arbitration
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
