Daily Mail was the best performer in the FTSE 100 yesterday, gaining nearly 78p to end £10.81. This followed the group’s acquisition of Australian Trade Exhibitions.NatMags is set to become more of a rival to Emap, thanks to its recent acquisition of Gruner & Jahr (see NatMags Grabs Gruner and Jahr). However, Emap did not… Continue reading Sharewatch
Jon Florsheim, Sky TV’s sales and marketing director, has been appointed managing director of Open. He replaces James Ackerman, who has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Open TV, the US-based company which provides the software, services and applications that enable digital interactive television. The change of staff comes in the wake of… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Granada Media and Liverpool Football Club are to unite in order to exploit the club’s new media and commercial rights to delayed coverage of Liverpool’s Premier League matches across online and broadband media.The new business will create a LiverpoolFC.com, a portal including entertainment, e-commerce, education and personalised services content created by Granada Media. The portal’s… Continue reading Granada Teams Up With Liverpool To Create Broadband Fan Portal
Last month’s Euro 2000 competition was certainly good for network television – ITV’s ad revenue for June grew by 20% annually to £168.7 million – but for cinema the footy meant a sharp fall in admissions year on year. UK cinema admissions fell by 30% during June as the film distributors held back the release… Continue reading Feature: Cinema’s Success Fades During Football Season
Revenue Agency estimates put year on year growth in terrestrial television revenue (including GMTV) at 19.6%, with the total now at £245 million. This comprised ITV revenue’s 20% rise, Channel 4’s growth of 15.3%, Channel 5’s revenue rise of 33.8% and GMTV’s 7.5% year on year increase.Total satellite revenue increased by 12.5% year on year.Carlton… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – June 2000
UK cinema admissions showed a 30% drop in year-on-year admissions for June this year. The witholding of releases due to the Euro 2000 football tournament and the particular success of films including Notting Hill and The Matrix last year (see Cinema Achieves Best June Admissions In 27 Years) are being blamed. In June 1999, admission… Continue reading Cinema’s Gladiators Can’t Compete With Last Year’s Sci-Fi And Londoners
A new chief executive officer has been appointed at Carlton Communications. Gerry Murphy, the former chief executive of freight distribution group NFC, will take up the position with immediate effect as the TV company prepares for the final round in the bidding war for consolidation within ITV.He will take the place of Steven Cain, who… Continue reading Carlton Appoints New CEO, Looks For Partnership With Granada
IPC Connect’s women’s weeklies have become the first mass-selling UK magazines in the UK to employ the sense of smell in advertisements. Innovative technology allows the readers to apply fragrance to be sampled by rubbing their hand across the advertisement itself.The full-page ad campaign, for Lever Bros new mint flavour Jif Bathroom Mousse is running… Continue reading IPC Adds Fragrance To Ads
More than one in three internet home users in the UK are visiting financial websites, with Egg.com being the most popular. These findings from NetValue show that the UK is ahead of France but behind Germany in the percentage of users going to financial sites and has seen lower growth than either of those countries… Continue reading Figures Show Online Banking Taking Off Across Europe
Digital One has announced the launch of a ninth station on its digital radio platform, the first national digital multiplex in the UK. TalkMoney, a collaboration between Bloomberg and the Wireless Group (see Wireless Group And Bloomberg Unite In Business Radio Station Deal), began transmission on Friday.The station will broadcast business programming 24 hours a… Continue reading TalkMoney Launches On Digital One
