BSkyB has acquired a 20% stake in Medical Information and Broadcasting Limited (MIB) which operates The Medical Channel. The channel is to broadcast via digital satellite to doctors and medical professionals and will go fully live on 1 June this year.The Medical Channel will air on Sky Digital channel 902 from 7am to 10pm every… Continue reading BSkyB Buys Into Medical Broadcasting
UK radio listening is performing strongly according to the RAJAR audience figures for the first quarter of this year, with the whole industry adding more than 33,000 hours’ listening quarter on quarter. Commercial radio’s share of listening has increased, on a national and local level, helping the commercial sector to close the gap slightly between… Continue reading Feature: Radio Groups Show Improvements In Latest RAJAR Report
Granada Group is to be split into two divisions following its merger with contract caterer Compass Group (see Sharewatch). The group’s media division will be renamed Granada Media as a result of the separation, and will float on the stock exchange later this year.The hospitality and media divisions are to be split within 12 months… Continue reading Granada Group To Float Media Arm
A TV sponsorship deal will be extended to radio for the first time in a deal between EMAP, Channel 4 and Malibu. Flava, a youth programme on C4 will be turned into a weekly radio show on EMAP’s Kiss and Big City stations in the deal, which is believed to be worth around £500,000.The radio… Continue reading Channel 4 And EMAP Unite In Sponsorship Deal
Shares in Granada fell by over 6% yesterday as the market responded to the news that the group was to purchase contract caterer Compass Group and split its hospitality and media arms into two separate businesses. Prices closed at 600p yesterday. This morning Granada confirmed that the deal was going ahead.Highbury House Communications saw a… Continue reading Sharewatch
A Clint Eastwood film which averaged 3.1m viewers when it aired on Channel 5 helped give the station its second best ever weekly audience share. Unofficial overnight figures showed that when Absolute Power went out on Tuesday it achieved a 17% share. This helped give the channel an 8.4% share for the day, beating Channel… Continue reading Eastwood Thriller Has Absolute Power Over Channel 5 Ratings
Internet access is now available to 45% of the UK adult population, giving a total of 21 million potential users. Of these, 14 million (30%) use the internet at home, work or college at least once a month. Research published by Continental Research in its Internet 2000 Quarter 2 Report has revealed that this level… Continue reading Internet Access Now Available To Nearly Half Of UK
Commercial radio revenue for the first quarter of 2000 reached £120 million, the highest ever spend for a first quarter. This included an increase of almost 29% from national advertisers, compared to the same period last year.The figures are the latest to be released by the Radio Advertising Bureau and show total revenue for the… Continue reading Radio Adspend Highest Ever In First Quarter
Virgin Radio has been given a £75,000 fine, the largest ever imposed by the Radio Authority, for breaching impartiality rules in a broadcast during the London Mayoral Elections. The broadcast by Chris Evans went out nationally and locally and therefore could have earned a fine of up to £1m, 5% of revenue gained from advertising… Continue reading Chris Evans Earns Virgin A Record Radio Authority Fine
BBC News Online is to supply content to Yahoo! UK. No money is exchanging hands in the deal, whereby Yahoo! will be supplied with top stories from the BBC’s UK, British politics, world, business, sport and science and technology news service sections. In return the BBC will introduce more people to its service, which is… Continue reading BBC News Online Signs To Supply Content For Yahoo!
