Music channel The Box has won another sponsorship deal with high street retailer Woolworths. It is understood that the new deal involves a significantly increased sum, but an exact figure is not being released.The Box, which airs for free on cable, digital and satellite platforms, allows viewers to request music videos via the telephone. The… Continue reading Box Secures Continued Woolworths Sponsorship
An announcement from WPP on Friday kept the market guessing when it revealed that talks were on again for a potential merger with US advertising agency Young & Rubicam. The first rumours regarding the deal were confirmed when initial talks were announced nearly a fortnight ago (see WPP Confirms Discussions With Y&R). However, a few… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.The PPA Magazines & B2B Conference begins today, featuring speeches by Chris Smith and Kevin Hand, from EMAP. The two-day event will be covered by Newsline.Tuesday Capital Radio announces interim financial results.Wednesday British Sky Broadcasting announces third quarter financial results.The deadline… Continue reading The Week Ahead
This week sees the launch of the Daily Telegraph‘s new supplement focusing on e-commerce. The first issue of dotcom.telegraph, to replace Connected, will appear in Thursday’s edition of the paper.Including three pages of e-commerce news, with the latest launches and share tips, the 12-page broadsheet supplement will also feature interviews with leading figures in the… Continue reading Telegraph To Launch Dotcom Supplement
Kiss 100 FM will launch a new marketing campaign on Monday featuring a female body builder called Andrulla. The campaign will target the station’s core audience of 15-24-year-old males with the message “We’ve pumped up the power”.A run of 1,100 six-sheets and 1,200 posters featuring Andrulla in a number of poses will appear over a… Continue reading Female Bodybuilder To Market Kiss 100
NTL launched the rollout of its digital cable services yesterday, saying it hoped to attract 300,000 digital customers by the end of this year. Digital Plus is now available in NTL’s franchises in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Customers will be offered digital TV and NTL internet and telephony services in the form of a… Continue reading NTL Launches Digital Cable Services
BSkyB has entered an exclusive long-term partnership with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to manage its worldwide broadcast and internet rights. The deal will see Sky become the board’s exclusive net partner with immediate effect and broadcast host from 2004.Sky will revamp, develop and manage the official WICB internet service over an 8-year period… Continue reading Sky Bags West Indies Cricket Deal
The Mirror and Sunday Mirror have put on 5% in year on year advertising revenues in the first four months of 2000. These figures were announced by Trinity Mirror chairman Sir Victor Blank at the group’s AGM yesterday.Blank also said that the Racing Post had achieved double digit growth in advertising revenues, while the regional… Continue reading Trinity Mirror Announces Advertising Revenue Growth In First Quarter
BSkyB’s stake in German pay-TV group Kirch has received clearance. The deal will see the satellite broadcaster take a 24% stake in the group and Dieter Hahn, vice-president of KirchGruppe, will become non-executive director of BSkyB.The deal was announced, subject to clearance, at the end of last year, following months of discussions (see BSkyB Moves… Continue reading BSkyB/Kirch Deal Receives Clearance
There has been a further increase in the overall decline in national newspaper readership, according to the latest figures from the National Readership Survey (NRS). A year-on-year analysis shows the whole sector falling 4.4% – or 3.2m readers – for the six month period ended March 2000.The largest falls came from the Sunday People (down… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS Round Up – March 2000
