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ONdigital is expected to announce a growth of 70,000 customers when it unveils its Q1 2001 subscriber figures this week. This is down on the 121,000 new customers it signed up in the first quarter last year. The slowing growth is mainly the result of churn – the number of customers leaving the ONdigital service.… Continue reading ONdigital Subs Growth Hampered By High Churn

TV’s status as the most trusted and unbiased medium has not been shaken by the arrival of the internet as a source of information. New research by CIA MediaLab has revealed that only 5% of respondents claim to trust the information they access via the internet, while 47% saw the BBC as the most trusted… Continue reading Public Belief In Internet As Trustworthy And Unbiased Medium Remains Low

UK cinema admissions are predicted to reach 148m during 2001, an increase of 4% year on year, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association. Revenue for the medium is also on the increase, pushed by a more adult and female orientated film product.Admissions rose by 3% in the first quarter, compared to… Continue reading Cinema Admission To Reach 148m During 2001, Despite March Slump

20.04.01ONdigital is expected to announce a growth of 70,000 customers when it unveils its Q1 2001 subscriber figures next week. This is down on the 121,000 new customers it signed up in the first quarter last year. The slowing growth is mainly the result of churn – the number of customers leaving the ONdigital service.Analysts… Continue reading ONdigital Subs Growth Hampered By High Churn

The UK’s major commercial broadcasters have published details of their public service commitments for the coming year. The statements are part of an ITC initiative and herald a move towards further self-regulation within the TV industry, a move which was unveiled as part of the Government’s White Paper last year.The statements allow creative flexibility in… Continue reading Broadcasters Publish Details Of Public Service Commitment

ONdigital is to announce details of its proposed revamp this Wednesday. The pay-tv station, which is joint owned by Carlton and Granada, is expected to change its name to ITV Digital and unveil a raft of new channels.The news will coincide with the appointment of Stuart Prebble, the current CEO of ONdigital, to the position… Continue reading ONdigital To Announce Revamp, Prebble To Head Up ITV

ONdigital is expected to announce a growth of 70,000 customers when it unveils its Q1 2001 subscriber figures this week. This is down on the 121,000 new customers it signed up in the first quarter last year. The slowing growth is mainly the result of churn – the number of customers leaving the ONdigital service.Analysts… Continue reading ONdigital Subs Growth Hampered By High Churn

In a trading week shortened by the Easter Bank Holiday, media shares staged something of a recovery as US interest rate cuts restored some confidence mid-week.Despite renewed downgrades to ITV revenue forecasts (see Further Downgrades Made To ITV Forecast), Granada Media finished among the top four media performers of last week, having added 27¼p or… Continue reading Sharewatch

The Federal Communications Commission in the US has amended its merger rules so that one of the four major television networks can now acquire the smaller, ’emerging’ networks, UPN and WB. The four majors – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – could each now take control of one or both of the emerging networks. The… Continue reading FCC Allows Major US TV Networks To Buy ‘Emerging’ Networks

RTL Group and Vivendi Universal have reached an agreement to acquire the sports marketing group ISMM, which would give them the broadcasting rights for the next two World Cup competitions, according to a report in Financial Times Deutschland. ISMM owns the broadcasting rights to non-European sporting events and is close to bankruptcy. FIFA’s Emergency Committee… Continue reading Vivendi And RTL Acquire World Cup Rights Through ISMM Deal, Says FT