BSkyB has expanded its online division with the appointment of two new senior executives. Meirion Alcock will join the group as head of retail commerce and Simon Green has been named as general manager for Sky Sports Online.Alcock joins the group from Flextech and will be responsible for developing a uniform strategy for e-commerce within… Continue reading BSkyB Strengthens Online Interests
Fifteen viewers complained to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) about an episode of Brookside which contained a scene of a couple having sex in a shower and another scene featuring a group of white racists.The episode, which was screened on a Saturday tea-time, also featured the word ‘shag’. Channel 4, which broadcasts the soap, notes… Continue reading Brookside Pulled Up For Sex And Racism
The Radio Authority (RA) has awarded the local digital multiplex licence for Liverpool to the sole applicant, EMAP Digital Radio. The licence, which covers Liverpool and the surrounding areas, will broadcast to a potential audience of 1.8 million adults (15+).EMAP Radio plans to broadcast eight programme services to the area drawn from its own station… Continue reading EMAP Wins Digital Radio Licence For Liverpool
The ITV Network’s commercial director, John Hardie, has tweaked his peaktime (7:00-10:30pm) audience share targets for 2000 to take into account the rapid growth in multichannel television viewing. In a presentation to advertisers the Network said its new target is to achieve a 1% increase in real terms in ITV’s average peaktime audience share.Originally Hardie… Continue reading ITV Adjusts Peaktime Target For 2000
Interactive television services platform, Open, has signed a deal with the Asda supermarket chain to sell the store’s goods from this summer. Asda joins a number of other retailers on the service, which launched last October (see Interactive TV Launches In The UK), including Woolworth’s, WHSmith, Domino’s Pizza, Carphone Warehouse, Dixons and Manchester United.Initially Asda… Continue reading Open Signs Asda To Interactive Service
Shares in global advertising group WPP surged yesterday after the company announced investments in three new media ventures. Stock closed up 61p at an all-time high of 1,129p.Pay-TV group Flextech has performed very strongly in the last few days. Flextech is a shareholder in Scottish Media Group (up 31˝p at 1,130p) which is itself completing… Continue reading Sharewatch
Capital Radio has poached MediaVest’s commercial director, Linda Smith, to become the new managing director of the group’s sales division, Capital Radio Advertising. Smith fills the role left by Fru Hazlitt who was lured away from the radio group by internet portal company Yahoo Europe at the end of last year (see Yahoo Swipes Capital… Continue reading MediaVest Commercial Director To Head Capital Advertising
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is inviting public comment on the proposed merger between media companies Carlton Communications and United News & Media (UNM) (see Media Merger May Hit Regulatory Obstacles). Specifically, the Commission is seeking to find out whether the single ownership of the two groups’ businesses might operate against the public interest.Carlton owns… Continue reading ITC Seeks Views On Carlton/UNM Merger
United Advertising Publications (UAP) has added 31 free, pick-up magazines to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) Bulk Distribution survey, vastly increasing the number of titles audited under this category. Twenty-two of the titles are being transferred from Verified Free Distribution (VFD) and the remaining nine are new to the ABC.“The launch of ABC Bulk… Continue reading UAP Adds Bulk Distribution Titles To ABC Survey
Month On MonthAccording to the latest figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC), released today, all but four of the national newspapers showed falling circulations in the last two months of 1999, with the overall sector dropping just under 890,000 copy sales (3.2%) between November and December.Only the Financial Times, Sunday Business, Sunday Express… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – December 1999
