Granada fell back by 40p on Friday, after two major announcements rocked the UK’s television industry. Firstly, BSkyB announced that it is to give away the £200 decoder boxes needed to receive its Sky Digital television service (see Digital TV War Intensifies). This will impact on Granada and Carlton’s (down 2˝p) digital terrestrial television service,… Continue reading Sharewatch
Tuesday Radio group, GWR, releases its final financial results.The Media Research Group (MRG) is holding an Evening Meeting beginning 6pm at Leo Burnett. The evening will focus on the issues of marketing to kids. Leo Burnett’s Denise Gardiner will give a preview of her Kid Power ’99 Conference paper, entitled The World Is A Small… Continue reading The Week Ahead
BSkyB is the least trusted company in Britain as far as the country’s youth is concerned, although 48% of people feel that digital television is a must. These are some of the findings of the Spring ’99 Survey by Right of Admission Reserved (ROAR), which is a consortium including Carlton Screen Advertising, the Guardian/Observer, Kiss… Continue reading ‘BSkyB Least Trusted British Company’ Says ROAR Survey
Later, the new men’s title from IPC Magazines, joined the men’s lifestyle magazine market last week in a flash of controversial publicity as two of its ads were withdrawn by the Advertising Standards Authority (see IPC’s Later Poster Campaign Censured By ASA).The majority of titles in this sector are aimed at men in their late… Continue reading Later Looks For An Older Lad
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has commissioned an annual research study into its performance and value across all of its business and media sectors. Gilmour Research is to carry out the study which will involve 450 publishers, media agencies and marketing departments.The ABC is hoping that the research will identify the value of the… Continue reading ABC Commissions Study Of Its Performance
Cable and telephony company, NTL, has acquired Cablelink, Ireland’s largest cable television provider, for I£535 million (£445 million). The acquisition is NTL’s first broadband venture outside the UK, will make NTL the largest cable and telephony provider in the United Kingdom and Ireland.With an existing customer base of over 360,000 subscribers, Cablelink currently has an… Continue reading NTL Acquires Irish CableLink For £445m
Future Publishing has acquired US magazine and internet publisher, Imagine Media. The combined business will be the world’s largest computing and games magazine and internet publisher. Metro Networks founder and managing director, Ben Budworth, has left the company. For the immediate future, Tim Vestey, chairman, will assume Budworth’s role at the company. Metro Networks provides… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Former BSkyB chief executive, Sam Chisholm, has resigned his post as non-executive director of the satellite broadcaster. His departure follows hot on the heels of BSkyB’s current chief executive, Mark Booth, who is leaving the company within the next few weeks to start an internet and interactive venture called e-partners (see Mark Booth Leaves BSkyB… Continue reading Chisholm Steps Down From BSkyB Board
ITV has achieved its highest share of television viewing for two years (Q1 1997) during the first quarter of 1999, according to the latest Trends In Television report from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA).The new ITV evening schedule, which launched on Monday 8 March (see First ITV Evening News Gains 7.2m ViewersEven better… Continue reading New ITV Schedule Boosts Q1 Viewing Share
Keith Young, publisher of the national Sunday sports newspaper, Sport First, is leading consortium of sports fans, broadcast professionals and investors that plans to launch a music and sport radio station for London.Called Fan FM, the station would broadcast 24-hour sports news and features, along with music, to the North and West of the capital.… Continue reading Sport First Publisher Bids To Launch Sports Radio Station
