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A merger of the cable firms Telewest and NTL will not take place for at least another year, according to a report in today’s Guardian. The newspaper claims that bondholders want both management teams to achieve operational targets before they provide more funds and support amalgamation. This will come as a surprise to many industry… Continue reading UK Cable Merger Put On Hold

The media sector has continued to feel the brunt of the plummeting stock market this week, with all but seven of the media companies listed in MediaTelINSIGHT Sharewatch showing falling prices yesterday. UK stocks have been falling for well over a week now as market uncertainties – particularly the spectre of war – cause company… Continue reading Continuing Share Falls Slash Media Company Values

As expected, Deutsche Telekom (DT) looks set to sell its cable assets to a consortium of financial investors for between â‚Ź1.7 billion and â‚Ź2.0 billion. The price range falls slightly short of the â‚Ź2.2 billion that DT had hoped to secure for the six regional cable franchises. The Financial Times today says that the deal… Continue reading Deutsche Telekom To Net

The media sector was seen under pressure again on Monday as the FTSE entered its eleventh consecutive day of losses, its lowest closing point since October 1995.Investor’s nerves continued to be frayed by the threat of US-led military action against Iraq and all eyes will be on President George W. Bush, who will deliver his… Continue reading Sharewatch

The Chartered Institute Of Marketing (CIM) has launched a campaign to assess whether advertisers are ignoring the potential wealth of the over 50s in the travel market.The campaign will ask whether marketing should be adapted to maximise the potential of the over 50s market and will present special reports and research alongside a best practice… Continue reading CIM Launches Campaign To Assess Marketing To Over 50s

Chrysalis has announced its intention to extend its LBC format outside of London by bidding for the third regional FM licence for the West Midlands.The radio group plans to use the licence, due to be advertised by the Radio Authority next month, to launch a sister station to the recently acquired LBC (see Chrysalis Strengthens… Continue reading Chrysalis Bids To Extend LBC Format To The West Midlands

National sports radio station talkSPORT has announced plans to auction-off five 30-second spots on Valentine’s Day for listeners to broadcast their love messages.The auction, which begins this week on ebay, will see the highest bidders get their own romantic messages turned into high-quality on-air commercials, made by the creative team at talkSPORT’s South Bank studios… Continue reading Love Is On The Air At TalkSPORT

The Government is beleived to have made a last-minute amendment to the Communications Bill to calm fears that a foreign-owner of Channel Five would flood the station with imported programmes.In what is being seen as an effort to smooth the passage of the Bill through the House of Lords, new clauses have been introduced that… Continue reading 27.01.03

Broadband continues to win hearts and minds in the UK with new findings from Oftel revealing that 84% of internet customers are now aware of high-speed services and their merits, compared to just over 50% in February 2002.New subscribers to permanent connections were wholly responsible for the increase in internet connectivity during November and Oftel… Continue reading UK Broadband Revolution Gathers Pace

Christopher Williamson, Economist at NTC Research, digests the findings of the IPA’s latest Bellwether Report and discusses what lies in-store for the advertising industry over the coming months…Light at the end of the tunnel, green shoots of recovery? Quite what the future currently holds for the advertising industry has perhaps not been more difficult to… Continue reading NewsLine Column: Bringing Home The Bellwether