TDI Advertising has become the first sales house to launch coverage and frequency services accessible via the Internet. The new databases offer advertisers the chance of accessing all coverage and frequency data relating to London Underground and London Bus advertising in an interactive accessible format. Users can select the audience, site type and campaign duration… Continue reading TDI Launches New Internet Planning Services
Cable operator Telewest has today announced third quarter financial results which show that losses have doubled year-on-year from £29.4m to £59.1m. This is despite revenue increasing 127% to £73.1m.Telewest also said that its network was 61% complete and now had almost 700,000 residential customers, while churn amongst cable viewers declined from 46% to 39.5%. Commenting… Continue reading Losses Double For Telewest
Gilly Batterbee, editor of IPC Magazines’ Family Circle, is moving from the title this month to work on a new IPC project.Editor since 1991 Batterbee steered the magazine through a major relaunch earlier this year which helped the title hit an ABC of over 306,000, an increase of 7%.IPC refused to comment on what the… Continue reading IPC Editor Moves On To New Project
ITV announced plans today for its Winter ’97 schedule, with spending in the region of £210 million. Network Director Marcus Plantin outlined the aim for the coming season which we are promised is ITV’s strongest schedule.Mr Plantin spoke of his six point plan which he believes will keep ITV as “Britain’s favourite button”. More new… Continue reading ITV Announces Winter ’97 Schedule
Barb has said that it is definitely looking at new ways of measuring television viewing, especially for out-of-home special events.Bill Meredith told Newsline that the wide issue of measuring viewing in the increasingly fragmented TV market was being discussed and Barb was “very interested” in monitoring out-of-home viewing for events such as football and boxing… Continue reading Barb Considering Additional Survey
The television sector saw large increases last week in anticipation of the more relaxed cross-media ownership rules which became law on Friday (see Friday’s New Media Ownership Rules Become Law).Grampian TV saw a big rise on Monday, leaping 22p to a record high of 292p, on the back of speculation that STV would make a… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 1/11/96
The £35bn merger between BT and MCI at the weekend will place the UK telecommunications giant in close proximity to BSkyB, raising fears among UK watchdogs.The alliance will occur because MCI, the US telecoms operator, owns a 13.5% stake in Rupert Murdoch’s global media company News Corporation. Oftel however, the telecoms watchdog, only recently censured… Continue reading BT Merger Creates Murdoch Alliance
ITV will today announce its Winter schedule and a full report will appear on Newsline as soon as possible. It is also expected today that a buyer for United Provincial Newspapers, the regional press arm of United News & Media, will be announced though United were unable to confirm this.TeleWest will today announce interim results.… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The cover-price of the Independent ‘s Saturday edition is increasing tomorrow by 10p to 60p. The latest ABC figure for the paper showed its decline is continuing: in September it fell by 9.19% to 266,426 copies.Subscribers can see all the latest ABC and NRS figures in Newsline’s Features section
As reported on Tuesday’s *WBTV Launch May Be Delayed, WBTV, the new Warner Brothers satellite channel, will not launch today.In a sparse joint statement with BSkyB, who is supposed to be carrying the channel, Warner says that it is having “difficulties” with the launch but will look to solve these in the near future. WBTV… Continue reading WBTV Launch Delayed
