Ahead of today’s shareholder’s annual meeting BSkyB has announced three month figures to the end of September which show profit rising 31% to £66 million. Turnover also showed good growth, rising 24% to £266m.Subscribers to the company’s satellite service increased slightly, up 2.6% to 5.65 million. The strong figures gave BSkyB a much-needed boost on… Continue reading BSkyB Profits Rise 31%
Chrysalis Radio Sales has promoted two of its sales group heads to local sales managers. Tara Norveil and Andrew McCutcheon will now head the team selling airtime for Heart 106.2 in London.…In another radio move Radio Trent has recruited Steve Mayall to the position of sales manager. He was previously sales controller at Invicta.…Julian Downing,… Continue reading Sales Appointments Announced
The Department of Trade and Industry is set to announce measures which will effectively curb BSkyB gaining a monopoly in the UK digital television market.The regulations would ensure that manufacturers of set-top boxes, the hardware which will allow TVs to receive digital broadcasts, would have access to and share the relevant technology. If a manufacturer,… Continue reading DTI May Act Over Set-Top Boxes
The Food Advertising Unit is holding its first Annual Conference entitled “Food and Drink Advertising to Children: Developing Public Policy” on November 7th at the Old Town Hall in Stratford.Speakers in attendance include George Bull, chairman of Grand Metropolitan plc and president of the AA, and Uisdean Maclean the head of Advertising Clearance at the… Continue reading Conference News
The men’s monthly magazine sector is now firmly established in the market with titles now reflecting various different target audiences, and most still showing good growth. With Arena, Face, I-D, and FHM all now celebrating at least ten years of publication more recent competition from Loaded, Maxim and Eat Soup has brought notice from both… Continue reading Men’s Magazine Market Round-Up
The liberalisation of cross-media ownership rules became law today, effectively meaning that the key industry players will have more freedom to realise their expansion ambitions.The key plank of the new Schedule to the Broadcasting Act 1996 is that numerical limits on the holding of radio and television licences has been abolished to be replaced by… Continue reading New Media Ownership Rules Become Law
According to the latest Establishment Survey many more ITV Households have 3+ sets in their homes compared to last year – just over 4.5m, up 14.82%. Most homes now have 2+ sets (13,445,000). Following in the same vein ownership of 2+ videos has shown the largest increase amongst all equipment – up 15.20% to nearly… Continue reading More TVs, More Videos – Establishment Survey June 96
The CIA Group has said that it wants its dispute with Laser *YTTV And Granada Issue Writs Against CIA put before an independent body such as the ITC for arbitration.CIA is proposing to put £832,453, the amount which Laser is claiming it is owed, into an account from which it would pay the sales house… Continue reading CIA Looks To ITC For Arbitration
Bringing its recent investment in new media to $10m, WPP Group has entered into a corporate partnership with Media Technology Ventures (MTV) – a US investment company specialising in information and entertainment technology start-ups. Other investors in MTV include Motorola Multimedia Group (broadband communications and cable modems provider), STET (telecommunications holding company), Justsystems Inc (applications… Continue reading WPP Partners Interactive Investment Company
According to the latest CIA MediaLab survey, Good Housekeeping is the brand that adults would most like to see being turned into a TV show. This comes as the ITC is considering relaxing its rules on “masthead programming”: at the moment a TV show can be turned into a magazine but a magazine cannot be… Continue reading Support Shown For Good Housekeeping TV Show
