Launched last week, handbag.com is the first in a recent wave of internet portals targetting women (see Telegraph And Boots Target Women With New Internet Service). A joint venture between Hollinger Telegraph New Media and Boots, its aim is to provide the modern woman with everything she needs, from relationship advice to gardening tips.A marketing… Continue reading Web Review: handbag.com
Reuters has signed a deal to supply news bulletins to ft.com. From today the information group will provide 26 news services to the Financial Times web site which will be a mixture of online business, technology and sports reports and specialist reports from individual financial markets.Pearson recently announced a revamp of its ft.com web site… Continue reading Reuters To Supply News To ft.com
Carlton Communications emerged as the FTSE’s best performer on Friday with shares in the broadcaster rising by over 4% to 444p. The surge in its prices came after sales figures for ONdigital, the group’s joint digital venture with Granada, broke previous records (see ONdigital Sales Up By 66%). Both Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers gave… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Interactive television company, Open, this week launches its service on the Sky Digital platform.Tuesday The Retail Prices Index for September is released by the Office For National Statistics. Last month underlying inflation stood at 2.1%, below the Government’s current target of 2.5% for… Continue reading The Week Ahead
EMAP Online, the new media division of media group EMAP, has announced a partnership with Cybuy, a new e-commerce subsidiary from NatWest, to offer transactional banner ads on its websites. The deal will make EMAP Online the first internet publisher in Europe to use the Cybuy-developed service.The system has been designed to remove the barriers… Continue reading EMAP Online And NatWest Pioneer Transactional Advertising
Carlton Communications is understood to be planning to close three of its pay-TV channels – Carlton Select, Carlton World and Carlton Kids – as part of a broader restructure of the group’s pay-TV and digital operations.According to trade press magazine, Broadcast, Carlton’s managing director of programmes, Lord Waheed Alli, has been considering axing the stations… Continue reading Carlton Expected To Axe Pay-TV Channels
EMAP has promoted Tom Moloney to chief executive of the media group’s US magazine publishing division, EMAP Petersen. Moloney, previously chief operating officer, takes charge of the company after a period of poorer than expected ad revenues which have caused EMAP’s stock price to drop dramatically in recent weeks (see Sharewatch).Despite this EMAP describes Moloney’s… Continue reading Management Changes At EMAP Petersen
The Independent Television Commission has embarked on a review of the digital points system, the results of which will be announced on October 11. It is believed the system, which was designed to prevent one broadcaster dominating the platforms, will be overhauled and the Sky Sports 2 problem (see Digital TV Wrangles Continue Over Sky… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Hull-based telecoms operator Kingston Communications is set to launch Europe’s first interactive television service to run over normal telephone lines.Kingston Interactive Television will use ADSL (asymmetrical digital subscriber line) technology to transform ordinary phone lines into high-speed digital lines and the service will include up to 55 digital channels, video-on-demand, internet access and email through… Continue reading Kingston Communications To Launch Interactive Television Service
Shares in digital partners Granada and Carlton Communications dropped yesterday despite reporting a 66% rise in subscription figures for their ONdigital service yesterday (see ONdigital Sales Up By 66%). Carlton fell by 7źp to 426p; Granada was down 6˝p to close at 526p.Shares in Reuters rose 3˝p after the Lehman Brothers set its December 2000… Continue reading Sharewatch
