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UKTV has announced the new channel brands for three of its key channels as Watch, GOLD and Alibi, which will launch on Tuesday 7th October.As announced in NewsLine in June, UKTV Gold is being rebranded as GOLD (see All UKTV Channels To Be Rebranded), which will stand for Go On Laugh Daily. It will become… Continue reading Watch, Alibi and GOLD: UKTV Rebrands Channels

BT Vision has tied up with Setanta to offer its premium sports channel for free with certain BT viewing packages.Its Bronze, Silver and Gold packages will now include Setanta Sports 1 as part of its offering – viewers will simple need to pay the one-off viewing card cost of £10 to Setanta.The tie-up brings Premiership… Continue reading BT Vision Ties Up With Setanta

Centaur Media plc has seen profits grow over the past year, due to double digit growth in online revenues. In its pre-close trading update for the year ended 30 June 2008, it stated that results were anticipated to be in line with market expectations. Online revenue increased by 24% in the year and were coupled… Continue reading Double Digital Online Growth Boosts Centaur

GfK are reported to be in talks with private equity firm Cinven to make a joint bid for TNS. The battle for UK research group is developing following last weeks competing bid from WPP at £1.08 billion forcing GfK and TNS to cancel their planned nil-premium merger last week (see TNS And GfK In Merger… Continue reading GfK Aiming For Joint Bid for TNS

After a bad day in the stock market today, Trinity Mirror shares plunged down 18% in one day, taking the shares down to just 55.5p. According to reports on Brand Republic, the publishing company has lost 90% from its share price during the last year. Shares in July last year were up to ten times… Continue reading Trinity Shares in New Low

Bowmark Capital has published its second Entrepreneurs’ Index with the outlook becoming distinctly gloomy during the past six months. The Index is a survey of small to medium-sized businesses in the UK with tracks respondent’s levels of optimism, financial performance and prospects together with corporate activey and cattitudes tot eh canllenges and opporuties they face… Continue reading Bowmark’s Entrepreneurs Index Distinctly Gloomy

ITV’s shares rose this morning by 8% to 41.4p following reports in the weekend papers linking Endemol to ITV. John de Mol, co-founder of Dutch production company Endemol, responded to weekend reports that Endemol might be interested in ITV by saying that a combination with ITV could make sense, but all would depend on the… Continue reading ITV Shares Rise On Back Of Speculation

The Q2 2008 Bellwether Report was released today, with the third consecutive quarter of cuts and to the greatest extent since 2001. Disappointing sales, rising costs and growing economic gloom were cited as reasons for companies cutting marketing budgets and it expects further cuts later in the year. All sectors within marketing have seen cuts,… Continue reading Largest Marketing Budgets Cuts Since 2001

ITV’s shares rose this morning by 8% to 41.4p following reports in the weekend papers linking Endemol to ITV.John de Mol, co-founder of Dutch production company Endemol, responded to weekend reports that Endemol might be interested in ITV by saying that a combination with ITV could make sense, but all would depend on the numbers.This… Continue reading ITV Shares Rise On Back Of Speculation

Despite the saturation of mobile phones in the UK market, a new survey has disclosed that most people take a dim view of mobile marketing.The research, conducted by G2 Data Dynamics, via its ViewPoint online panel of 30,000 UK consumers, revealed that only 9%t of individuals are more receptive to receiving marketing messages direct to… Continue reading Dim View Taken Of Mobile Marketing