Stan Park, former commercial director of Talk Radio, has joined radio news and information provider, MetroNetworks. He will fill the same role, newly-created role at MetroNetworks, and will have a seat on the company’s board.MetroNetworks provides news, sports, traffic and travel information to over 70 commercial and BBC Local Radio Network stations across the country.… Continue reading Former Talk Commercial Director Joins MetroNetworks
Anglo-Dutch publisher, Reed Elsevier, this morning posted a fairly gloomy set of annual financial results and warned that less favourable trading conditions in some markets suggest 1999 will not be a year of any significant profit growth. Pre-tax profits were down by 6% to £773 million whilst turnover grew by 6% to £3.2 billion. The… Continue reading Reed Elsevier Warns Of No Growth In 1999
The first in the planned series of James Bond films, Goldeneye, saw ITV gain an audience of 12.1 million last night, according to unofficial overnight figures from the Network Centre. This represents an average 52% share of all viewing across the film’s two hour slot, from 9pm to 11pm.ITV’s peak-time salvo against the BBC was… Continue reading Goldeneye Nets 52% Share For ITV
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/Empire magazine is, as you all know, shiny colourful and lightweight – a fluffy compendium of Hollywood gossip and glossy pictures of attractive stars. It’s cinema glamour as seen by teenage boys and romance as imagined by girls infatuated with Leonardo Di Caprio (why? Why?).So I was expecting the online version to be full of… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Empire
Pearson suffered an 85p drop in its share price, falling to 1,337p. This follows a fairly positive set of financial results released yesterday, which reported a 19% leap in operating profit (see Newsline). By 10:30am today, the group’s price had fallen a further 13p to 1,324p.Carlton Communications, on the other hand, saw a 7˝p rise… Continue reading Sharewatch
Talk Radio is to launch a promotion for its new breakfast show using scratch cards in the Sun, the Mirror and the Daily Record. The new show, the Big Boys Breakfast, starts next Monday, 15 March (see Newsline).The promotion also begins next week, and runs for a fortnight. It will be backed up by a… Continue reading Talk Radio In Breakfast Prize Giveaway
Regional publisher Northcliffe Newspapers has developed online shopping facilities for its This Is… network of sites through a deal with multimedia retailer Internet Movie and Video Shop (iMVS). Visitors to one of the nine current Northcliffe regional This Is… websites will be able to purchase CDs and videos with a 10% discount until 31 March.Northcliffe… Continue reading Northcliffe Drives Online Shopping Via ‘This Is…’ Sites
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) fielded complaints against Emap Metro’s ad for its Kerrang! publication in Playstation Plus magazine. The watchdog supported the complaints for the ad, which showed four words spelt out in British sign language with a reference key at the bottom to translate the letters. The sentence transpired to read ‘Turn it… Continue reading Advertising Watchdog Clamps Down On Emap Ad
Carlton Communications today has announced the acquisition of Bob Geldof’s production company, Planet 24. The deal is estimated to be worth around £15 million.Carlton’s other television businesses include Carlton Television and Action Time, and the group also owns the ITV franchises Central and West Country and 20% of GMTV, as well as having a 50%… Continue reading Carlton Acquires Planet 24
Advertising agency Cordiant Communications, which demerged from Saatchi & Saatchi just over a year ago (see Cordiant Confirms Demerger Plans), has today posted a strong set of financial results in the face of growing takeover rumours.Pre-tax profits at the group were up by 20% to £25.9 million for the year ended 31 December 1998; earnings… Continue reading Cordiant Stifles Takeover Rumours With Strong Results
