Media groups were amongst the highest movers on the FTSE 100 yesterday as news of the world’s biggest corporate deal, between America Online and Time Warner, affected shares in the sector (see AOL And Time Warner Confirm Mega-Merger). Pearson, once rumoured to be interested in a deal with AOL (see Sharewatch), was the highest climber… Continue reading Sharewatch
A recently-launched online advertising rates and data service called Media Online has been forced to withdraw its product from the market after claims of copyright breach.EMAP Business Publications claimed that some of the data held in the Media Online system, which is produced by Media Online Rates and Data Limited, had been taken from its… Continue reading Media Online Withdraws Product Following EMAP Copyright Claim
Monday A TV Viewing Round-Up for November 1999 will be available on Newsline and in the Television features list later on today.MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Tuesday Digital terrestrial broadcaster, ONdigital, is to release its latest set of subscriber figures. As of September last year, the service had 411,000… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The Guardian is to celebrate its first year on the internet with a week of themed editorial in its newspaper and on the Guardian Unlimited website. From 15-22 January the future of the Net will be explored in a week of dedicated features and supplements.The Guardian will run exclusive extracts from “The New, New Thing”,… Continue reading Guardian Celebrates First Year Online
The Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) and Leo (Burnett) Group agencies have this afternoon confirmed the merger of their respective UK media operations, Motive and Starcom, to form the Starcom Motive Partnership (SMP). The combined group will become the third largest media services company in the UK with estimated annual billings of £440 million.SMP will be… Continue reading Starcom And Motive Confirm Merger
Cable group Telewest Communications has added a further fifteen companies to its interactive TV service. Available from Spring on the group’s Active Digital platform (see Telewest Builds Interactive Service To Rival Open), the service now boasts a total of 29 partners providing content for its interactive outlets, and puts cable at the forefront of interactive… Continue reading Retailers Back Telewest’s Cable Interactive Service
Programmes ITV’s decision to screen nine editions of Coronation Street, five episodes of Emmerdale and a week’s worth of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, helped the channel to pull in big audiences. The late night editions of Coronation Street: After Hours boosted ITV’s old News at Ten slot, with the best weekday performance coming… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – November 1999
The Radio Advertising Bureau has produced a list of the top ten radio advertisers from the last decade. Most of the brands in the list have been in the top ten of each year’s top spenders throughout the decade and each successive year has seen an increase in the amount of money the majority spent… Continue reading Top Ten Radio Advertisers Of The Decade Revealed
Internet service provider America Online (AOL) and global media giant Time Warner have this morning confirmed plans to merge operations creating “the world’s first fully integrated media and communications company.” The merger, which will result in an AOL Time Warner Inc. company, is valued at $350 billion (£219 billion).In a joint statement the companies said… Continue reading AOL And Time Warner Confirm Mega-Merger
Programmes ITV’s decision to screen nine editions of Coronation Street, five episodes of Emmerdale and a week’s worth of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, helped the channel to pull in big audiences. The late night editions of Coronation Street: After Hours boosted ITV’s old News at Ten slot, with the best weekday performance coming… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – November 1999
