Shares in Flextech gained in price yesterday closing up 4˝p to 919˝p. The cable and satellite company is believed to be planning to sell a stake in its holiday bookings channel, TV Travel Shop. Travel companies are in line for the 25% stake, said to be worth £25 million.Meanwhile shares in BSkyB rose slightly after… Continue reading Sharewatch
BSkyB has responded to a study of its subscriber base by launching a number of new services for children. Its research has highlighted the importance of children in multichannel programming and revealed that 62% of Sky Digital households contain children, a figure which is above the national average of 54%.Included in the launch is Nick… Continue reading BSkyB Research Shows Importance Of Children In Multi-Channel Homes
Carlton Communications is to become the first ITV company to rename its franchises under the one brand name when, as from 6 September, Central Television and West Country Television become Carlton Central and Carlton West Country.The move is part of a wider strengthening of the Carlton brand, announced in the company’s ten-point plan earlier in… Continue reading Carlton To Rebrand Central And West Country Franchises
Consumer magazines and internet group, Future Network, has this morning announced a partnership agreement with AOL’s new free internet service provider, Netscape Online, which launched last week (see AOL Moves In To Free ISP Market). Future is the UK’s largest publisher of consumer computer magazines and its new media division, FutureNet, produces a number of… Continue reading Future And AOL Sign Advertising And Content Partnership
New research from Datamonitor finds that people living in the south of Britain are much more likely to have a PC and internet access at home than those in the north of England and Northern Ireland.Its study sees a large north-south divide with almost 50% of people living in the southeastern regions of Britain having… Continue reading North-South Divide In PC Ownership
Satellite broadcaster, BSkyB, has this morning taken a 9.08% stake in Leeds United in a £13.8 million deal with the club’s owner, Leeds Sporting Plc. It has been expected for some time that a deal would be struck between the two groups (see BSkyB In Talks To Buy Football Stakes), although this is the first… Continue reading BSkyB Takes £13.8m Stake In Leeds United
Shares in magazine publishing group, EMAP, continue to fall back, after Deutsche Bank last week warned that the group is in danger of falling out of the FTSE-100 in September’s review – one of the last of such reviews to be conducted under the existing FTSE rules (see Sharewatch). Shares in EMAP fell slightly on… Continue reading Sharewatch
The UK’s major radio broadcasters have formed an alliance to drive forward the development of advertising-supported interactive data services, available across digital radio. The Commercial Digital Implementation Group, or C-Dig, comprises Capital Radio, Digital One (joint-owned by GWR Group and NTL), EMAP Radio, GWR Group, Scottish Radio Holdings and NTL.C-Dig is keen to introduce advertising-supported… Continue reading Commercial Radio Companies Combine To Drive Digital Radio Services
Toby Constantine, marketing director of Times Newspapers, is leaving the company to pursue ‘other career opportunities’, the group announced yesterday. It is understood that he has joined up with former general manager of CurrantBun.com, Ellis Watson (see Newsline Brief), to launch a new e-commerce project.Constantine has been at News International, Times Newspapers’ parent company, since… Continue reading Times Newspapers Loses Marketing Director
The Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) has announced plans to join forces with media agency Universal McCann to launch the first major study into the effectiveness of radio advertising. Beginning in September, its initial phase will last for six months but will lead onto an ongoing project to provide benchmarks for measurements within the radio advertising… Continue reading RAB To Launch First Major Radio Ad Study
