Talk Radio has announced a two year deal today which gives the station exclusive radio coverage for all of Manchester United’s home games in European competitions. The deal will cover the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons, and will make Talk the only station to broadcast every Manchester United game in European tournaments. The matches will also… Continue reading Talk Secures Broadcast Rights To All European Man Utd Games
Talk Radio has added three members to its sales team to help expand the business and to exploit opportunities created by the station’s increased focus on sports coverage.Jason Trout joins as deputy sales director from TV3 where he is currently sales controller. Trout, who has also worked at BSkyB and Laser, will report directly to… Continue reading Talk Radio Boosts Sales Team
Channel 4’s gay drama Queer As Folk has provoked over 160 complaints from viewers according to the Independent Television Commission’s (ITC) latest report for Programme Complaints and Interventions. The series, which aired from 23rd February – 13 April this year, was based around the life of three young homosexual men in Manchester’s gay village.Most of… Continue reading Channel 4 Gay Drama Receives Over 160 Complaints
The world’s largest online internet service, America Online, has announced it is considering plans to launch a free web access product in Britain. AOL Europe said it was considering a variety of models for Internet access and is likely to announce further details within the next month.David Phillips, managing director of AOL’s UK operation, said:… Continue reading AOL May Launch Free Net Access In Britain
The BBC has secured exclusive broadcasting rights to the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the next five years, it emerged today. The BBC’s association with the tournament goes back 60 years, and the deal ensures that this relationship will continue.The BBC recently lost some of its exclusive sports rights to Channel 4 (see Newsline) and Talk… Continue reading BBC Secures Wimbledon Broadcast Rights For Next 5 Years
Radio group GWR has today announced the launch of a free internet access service which will be offered to Classic FM and GWR listeners across the UK. The company claims that the launch of Classic Freenet will make GWR the first UK radio operator to become a free internet service provider (ISP).The move by GWR… Continue reading GWR Becomes First Radio Group To Offer Free Net Access
Press reports that BSkyB’s digital TV service is signing up customers at the rate of 10,000 a day, caused Granada, owner of rival DTV service, ONdigital, to fall back by 43p to 1,163p. BSkyB closed unchanged at 596p on Friday.Cable & Wireless, which concluded its takeover of Japanese group International Digital Communications last week and… Continue reading Sharewatch
Tuesday The Media Research Group (MRG) Evening Meeting will examine the results of the First Impressions study carried out by Recall and GMTV which investigated the level of recall viewers have for television ads.Questions addressed by the study include: ‘Do longer ads have higher recall?’; ‘Is a centre break better than an end break?’ and… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Haymarket’s new internet title, The Net, hit the newsstands at the end of last week, adorned with the gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones. This clearly demonstrates that a pretty face sells, as the only mention of Zeta-Jones in this issue is in a review of her movie. The magazine aims to show people around the ‘world wide… Continue reading First Issue Review – The Net
Consumer publisher Future Network has revealed investors will be able to snap up its shares for £3.85 each when it makes its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week. This values the group at £577.5 million. 30% of Future will be offered in the flotation this Friday, with 38 million new shares expected to… Continue reading Price Set For Stake In Future
