By close of trade yesterday most media stocks had suffered a bigger drop than the FTSE all share index which was down 2.6% on the previous day.One of the worst hit was Capital Radio which fell 12.8%, a drop of 66p to 451.5p, while two other radio groups were also hard hit. GWR fell 7.8%,… Continue reading Media Shares Hit Hard In Stockmarket Nosedive
Treaty Radio Ltd. has signed a sound broadcasting contract with the Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) for the provision of a local Limerick City and County radio service. The station will begin broadcasting as 95FM on 6th November. It can be received on 95.0FM in Limerick City and East Limerick and 95.3FM in West… Continue reading IRTC Sign Contract With New Limerick Station
Sunday afternoon’s screening of the Formula One Grand Prix from Jerez in Spain attracted a peak ITV audience of 7 million viewers, according to unofficial figures from the Network Centre. The average viewing figure for the race was 5.4 million, which is a viewing share of 49%.ITV Network Centre: 0171 843 8000
The official ABC //electronic audit for the NME online site, nme.com, was announced this week. The site is recorded as receiving 1,012,472 page impressions from 51,669 users. This covers the period 24 June-23 July 1997.nme.com is the third IPC site to receive ABC //electronic certification this month, following uploaded.com and newscientist.com.ABC //electronic: 01442 870 800… Continue reading nme.com Makes A Million Impressions
ITV’s coverage of the 1998 World Cup Finals is to be sponsored by Vauxhall in what is the biggest sports broadcast sponsorship of all time. The deal, negotiated with TSMS for ITV and by Western International Media on behalf of Vauxhall, is worth over £4m. Vauxhall will be both event and broadcast sponsor as it… Continue reading Vauxhall And World Cup 1998
A G Barr has struck a deal with its Tizer brand which sees it sponsoring two music programmes in the same day. Tizer will be endorsing the 1997 MTV Europe Awards and a one-off episode of the music programme The Noise, both to be broadcast on Saturday 8 November. This in addition to Tizer’s weekly… Continue reading Tizer Double Deal Sponsorship
According to agency estimates total terrestrial TV revenue for September came in at £212.54 million. Of this ITV brought in £156.71m and C4 £46.8m.There were relatively substantial year on year losses in impacts across all categories for ITV/C4 in September. Men was the audience hardest hit, with a drop of 7.5% while the category to… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September
Following yesterday’s dramatic fall for the worse in the world’s stock market, traders around the world were bracing themselves for even worse this morning. As expected the crash went global and at one stage this morning more than £76 billion was knocked of British equities. London’s FT-SE index fell steeply first thing this morning hitting… Continue reading FT-SE’s Rocky Ride
Chief executive of Capital Radio, David Mansfield, has appointed Sally Oldham as Capital’s first managing director of group radio. She moves from the post of regional operations director where she was responsible for Capital’s stations in Hampshire, Sussex, Kent and Birmingham. Oldham will now also have responsibility for the London market as well as Capital’s… Continue reading Capital Appoints First Managing Director For Radio
Since the Cinema Exhibitors Association (CEA) agreed to recommend that its members send admissions data to the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA), the industry and advertisers have started to reap the benefits of accurate audience share data.The first ever accurate quarterly cinema admissions figures have been published by the CAA. This report, covering the period July-September… Continue reading Cinema Admissions Data Benefits Advertisers
