Hotels and television group, Granada, has this morning denied a report in today’s Guardian that it plans to split its two main operations by listing the television and hotels holdings separately.Following an interview with Granada’s group chief executive, Charles Allen, the paper reported that he was hoping to realise the ‘true value’ of the company… Continue reading Granada Says Media/Hotels Split Is ‘Not On The Agenda’
A talented and powerful panel of leading media figures has accepted invitations to take part in MediaTel’s inaugural Media Question Time to be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House on the evening of Monday 24 May.Presented in association with the Economist, the event will be chaired by BBC Radio media correspondent, Torin Douglas.… Continue reading First Media Question Time Attracts Powerful Panel
Sky Digital and Panasonic announced today that they are launching the first idTV (integrated digital television) early next year. The new televisions will be the first to contain both digital satellite and digital terrestrial integrated tuners, and will enable customers to access the two DTV services on the same television without separate set-top boxes. Andrew… 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
After a soar in the share price of BSkyB on Wednesday following the announcement of an aggressive marketing drive in the form of set-top box giveaways (see Newsline), the broadcaster’s value fell off by the close of trading yesterday, dropping 28p to 579p.At the same time, digital terrestrial TV competitor ONdigital mounted its own offer… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Bank of England has put interest rates on hold amid signs that the current round of reductions is at or near an end. After seven cuts in the last eight months, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to leave rates unchanged at 5.25%.The decision came as a bitter blow to manufacturers and unions who… Continue reading Interest Rates On Hold
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
