Classic FM is to launch a £45,000 awareness campaign with Swiss chocolate brand Lindt Swiss Tradition. Starting next week the GWR station will run themed competition throughout the day beginning with Henry Kelly’s 8am show.Listeners are challenged to identify the classic tunes yodelled by Mary Schneider and answer questions about Switzerland, with the chance to… Continue reading Classic FM Gets Swiss Treatment
Reed International jumped 19žp as investors speculated on the follow-through from the proposed merger of Carlton and United News & Media. Prices closed at 920˝p.Shares in Capital Radio were up 87˝p to 1,360p amid talk of a bid from a larger rival.And Cable & Wireless shed 76p to 805p after it was rejected from the… Continue reading Sharewatch
The breakfast period between 7am and 9am is the most lucrative time for commercial radio broadcasters. Figures for the last year, ending August, have found that ad revenue was over £110 million for this block, or more than 20% of all commercial radio ad revenue. This is a growth of 7% on last year.The latest… Continue reading Breakfast Is Best For Radio Ads
The music group EMI has sold its 13.3% stake in GWR, it was announced yesterday. The stake, worth £81.4 million, was sold to institutional buyers in London to allow the group to concentrate fully on its music business.Henry Meakin, GWR chairman said: “EMI has been a supportive shareholder in recent years. However, we recognise that… Continue reading EMI Sells Stake In GWR
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has awarded a non-exclusive local delivery service licence to the NTL group, allowing it to provide television services over broadband cable, telephone and, in some areas, microwave radio networks.The new licence will replace the group’s existing licence on January 1 2000 and will allow the group to offer a full… Continue reading NTL Awarded Local Delivery Licence
IPC is to launch a television listings guide on the internet. The group’s new free website, unmissabletv.com, will feature TV Times, TV & Satellite Week and What’s On TV as well as cinema listings for the whole of the UK.The news comes a week after the magazine group appointed Caroline Ward as managing director of… Continue reading IPC To Launch Television Website
The proposed merger between Carlton Communications and United News & Media continued to affect shares as talk of a possible bid by Granada for United emerged (see Consolidation A Threat To Granada And BSkyB). Shares in United rose at the news, climbing 30˝p to 799˝p, while Carlton took a tumble, dropping 21˝p to 555p.Shares in… Continue reading Sharewatch
Border TV’s radio division reported a 58% increase in turnover yesterday, mostly due to the successful launch of the group’s third and biggest Century station, Century 105, in the North West just over a year ago.The results, for the year on year period which followed the station’s launch in September 1998, were welcomed by the… Continue reading New Century Station Boosts Border
As further news of the United/Carlton merger emerged over the weekend, the two groups most likely to lose out as a consequence of the deal made moves to prevent it. BSkyB and Granada have both said they want the merger referred to the Competition Commission before it is given the go-ahead and there have been… Continue reading Consolidation A Threat To Granada And BSkyB
The race to corner the free morning newspaper market heightened last week as three more Metro newspapers were launched. After a circulation war broke out in Manchester recently when Associated Newspapers and the Guardian Group launched free morning newspapers in the city on the same day with the same name (see Manchester In Local Newspaper… Continue reading Three More Metros Hit Britain
