The eve of the turn of the millennium was characterised, in the media industry, by a flurry of mergers, takeovers and consolidations; by internet start-ups and new media millionaires; by a scrabble to grab the new Premier League football broadcasting rights contract and, tragically, the demise of Live TV and the News Bunny… JanuaryAs 1998 began… Continue reading A Look Back At 1999…
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has imposed a £20,000 fine on the Christian Channel, which broadcasts to the UK via cable and satellite. The channel faces the penalty for a number of breaches of the Advertising Code in relation to political impartiality and denigration of other beliefs, as well as a number of further infringements… Continue reading Christian Channel Fined £20,000 By ITC
The last Christmas Day of the century saw ITV take the majority of peak-time television viewing as BBC1 lost the battle for the first time in fifteen years. The commercial network’s decision to broadcast three editions of the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? gameshow paid off, with two of the three programmes appearing in… Continue reading ITV Wins Christmas Day Peak-Time Battle
Greg Dyke, the incoming director general of the BBC, is set to take up his post full-time at the end of January, two months earlier than had originally been planned (see Dyke To Be Next BBC Director General).The Corporation’s current director general, Sir John Birt, has decided to step down on 28 January after receiving… Continue reading Dyke To Take Control Of BBC Two Months Early
Worst performing media company of the year was Reed International which opened trading on New Year’s Eve down 15p at 463˝p. The publisher failed to respond quickly enough to the internet in 1999 and spent most of the year trying to find a new chief executive.Granada entered 2000 on a good footing, rising 28p over… Continue reading Sharewatch
Music and radio group Chrysalis surged up 217˝p (17.2%) yesterday after announcing a partnership with US group rivals.com to develop Europe’s largest online network of sports team websites. Chrysalis closed yesterday at 1,480p.Shares in United News & Media were boosted by the announcement that the company has appointed advisors to dispose of its non-core businesses… Continue reading Sharewatch
Revised forecasts by CIA MediaLab for 2000 set the rise in total adspend at 5%, 1% higher than previously expected. Media inflation, however, will remain unchanged at 3.7%, with a 0.5% increase in audience.The highest year-on-year change for advertising expenditure will come from online ads, which the group predicts will rise by 106% to a… Continue reading Total Adspend Will Rise By 5% In 2000
Scott and Clare, along with all the Newsline contributors, would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Christmas and a top 2000…Newsline will be taking a break over the holidays, so in the meantime we have put together a look back at the key events of 1999 which will be online throughout the… Continue reading A Merry Christmas And Millennium From Newsline
UK cinema admissions rose by 27.4% year on year for November 1999 according to the latest figures released by the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA). During November films including The Sixth Sense and The World Is Not Enough contributed to the 13.1 million admissions.Average weekly admissions for the month were 3.1 million, 27.0% higher than November… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Up 27% In November
US magazines national advertising spending is set to grow by 7.5% in 2000 according to forecaster Robert Coen, senior VP and director of Forecasting at Universal McCann, a unit of McCann Erickson Worldwide.US Magazines, which saw national ad spending rise to more than $11 billion in 1999, a 5.5 per cent increase, should do even… Continue reading US Magazines National Adspend Set To Grow By 7.5% In 2000
