ITV has said that it will provide advertisers with details of its schedules two months in advance of broadcast following complaints from the industry that schedules were withheld for too long, preventing advertisers from effectively booking campaigns. Also some programmes were dropped from the schedule after ads had been booked around them. ITV has created… Continue reading ITV Offers Advertisers Earlier Schedules
Mirror Group’s embattled chief executive, David Montgomery, has resigned from the company this morning as expected (see Montgomery Expected To Step Down From Mirror Group). Montgomery has stepped down with immediate effect following the breakdown of takeover talks with Trinity International and the rejection of second bid from Regional Independent Media (RIM) (see Mirror Group… Continue reading Montgomery Resigns From Mirror Group
BBC Online is the second most popular UK site after only a year – 42% of UK users have visited the site within 2 weeks. Only Yahoo! UK & Ireland claimed a larger amount of visits, with 61% of UK users having visited the site in the same period. These findings are according to the… Continue reading BBC Online Second Most Popular UK Website
This morning Mirror Group Newspapers lost its CEO, David Montgomery, amidst takeover discussions with regional newspaper publishers, Trinity International and Regional Independent Media (RIM) (see Montgomery Resigns From Mirror Group). He took the decision to step down ahead of a possible ousting by the company’s shareholders and non-executive director, Sir Victor Blank.Montgomery was seen as… Continue reading Possibilities For Mirror Group
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is to carry out an inquiry into the way BSkyB charges for its premium sports and movie channels.Currently, BSkyB’s premium channels are provided at an expensive rate for the first channel supplied, with subsequent channels in the genre offered for just a slight increment in price. For example, the satellite… Continue reading BSkyB To Face ITC Price Enquiry
IPC Magazines is cranking up its marketing drive for the women’s weeklies titles (see IPC Launches £9m Women’s Weeklies Drive), with TV campaigns for Now, Woman and Woman’s Weekly all starting next month. The titles join the campaign for Chat, which launched at the beginning of the year.The £1 million push for Woman, which follows… Continue reading IPC Extends Women’s Weeklies Promo Campaigns
Revenue Estimates from agencies put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £190.27 million for December 1998. ITV saw a 4.2% increase year on year in its total revenue which rose to £131.62 million in December 1998. Channel 4’s total ad revenue rose by 11.8% to £42.5 million, and Channel 5 enjoyed a rise of 39.4%… Continue reading TV Round-Up – December 1998 (Subscribers)
Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers is advising shareholders to reject an offer from Johnston Press, saying it has received approaches from potential rival bidders. Johnston, which made an unsuccessful takeover approach to P&SN last November, announced fresh plans to buy a major stake in the company last week.Edinburgh-based Johnston said it had struck a deal with… Continue reading New Approaches For Portsmouth & Sunderland
The GWR radio group has welcomed the Radio Authority’s announcement last week to replace its Promises Of Performance with Formats as a means of regulating commercial radio output (see Newsline).Chief executive of GWR, Ralph Bernard, commented: “We welcome this announcement as a move in the right direction by the Radio Authority, although it remains to… Continue reading GWR Cautiously Welcomes RA’s New Formats
Monday A TV Round-Up for December 1998 will be available on Newsline and in the Television features list.Tuesday The Mirror Group is to hold a board meeting to discuss its current position in the takeover talks between Trinity International and Regional Independent Media (see Mirror Group Rejects £913m RIM Bid). Reports suggest that either chief… Continue reading The Week Ahead
