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The latest radio audience figures, for the three months to March 2001, showed BBC Radio notching ahead its lead over the commercial sector quarter on quarter. This is a continuation of a trend that began around a year ago when then BBC stations took their share over the 50% mark and commercial dropped back to… Continue reading Insight Analysis: BBC Radio Continues To Build Advantage

UK-based telecommunications company, Cable & Wireless, has this morning showed that moves to concentrate on its internet protocol (IP) networks may be starting to be off. Towards the end of 1999, C&W sold its UK consumer cable division – Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) – to rival cable company NTL. Since then C&W has begun… Continue reading C&W’s Focus On IP Networks Pays Off

Stock in the radio sector is currently in freefall after Scottish Radio said it had ended merger discussions (see Scottish Radio Ends Takeover Talks As SMG Declines To Reveal Its Intentions) and a report in this morning’s Financial Times claimed that Capital Radio will tomorrow issue a profits warning. Shares in these two groups naturally… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Radio Shares Take A Dive

BSkyB has completed the acquisition of British Interactive Broadcasting Holdings (BIB), the company which owns and operates the Open interactive TV service. Sky has bought out BT’s stake in BIB, after the telecommunications company decided to exercise its option to exit the group, following Sky’s acquisition of HSBC and Matsushita’s holdings last week (see City… Continue reading BSkyB Completes Open Acquisition

Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) this morning said that it has discontinued offer talks for the group, at least ‘for the time being’. The announcement comes as the group completes the Goldman Sachs-led strategic review which began in December last year. In recent months, the Board has been in discussions with a number of parties which… Continue reading Scottish Radio Ends Takeover Talks As SMG Declines To Reveal Its Intentions

More people than last year chose to watch last Saturday’s Arsenal/Liverpool FA Cup final on ITV rather than Sky Sports 2.ITV’s coverage drew 7.8m viewers at its peak. An average of 6.8 million watched throughout the game compared to an average of 840,000 viewers watching on Sky Sports 2.ITV’s controller of sport Brian Barwick said:… Continue reading ITV Wins FA Cup Final Ratings Battle

The Outdoor Resource Centre has published the industry spending figures compiled by Concord for February 2001. These showed that despite tales of automotive advertising slumps in the US, in the UK car manufacturers remain high up in the top spenders on the outdoor medium. Three out of the top five spenders in the front two… Continue reading Cars And Films Boost Outdoor Income

talkSPORT is to take both legal and programming action after accusing the BBC of abusing its dominant market position by buying both radio and TV rights to England’s next football international.Kelvin MacKenzie, chief executive of The Wireless Group, which owns Talksport, said: “We have always warned the BBC that if we are cut out of… Continue reading Talksport Tackles BBC Over England World Cup Rights

ISBA has announced the imminent launch of a Scottish Advertisers Group to provide a forum for information sharing on issues relating to the developing and increasingly independent Scottish advertising market.The group will be officially unveiled today at the Scottish IPA Advertising Effectiveness Awards and will operate as a satellite of the London-based ISBA. Pam Hyder,… Continue reading ISBA To Unveil Scottish Advertisers Group

Month on MonthNational newspaper circulation data for April 2001 has now been released. The figures reveal that the loss sustained in circulation across all titles has not been too severe in a month on month analysis, falling just 0.5% or just over 120,000.The greatest loss in terms of percentage change in circulation was at the… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – April 2001