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United Business Media (UBM) delivered a positive trading statement yesterday for the second half of 2004, showing particularly strong performance in new product investments. Revenue from publications and events businesses in Asia and the UK is ahead of the same period last year. UK classified revenues are in line with last year, with increased levels… Continue reading United Business Media Delivers Positive Trading Statement

Newspaper giant Trinity Mirror continued its upward trend yesterday, seeing a 4.8% rise in share price, to close at 666˝p on Wednesday. Despite a positive trading statement last week Trinity share prices have been in decline recently, however, private equity group CVC Capital Partners is said to be analysing the company to see how much… Continue reading Sharewatch: Trinity Mirror Continues Upward Trend

IPC Media had cause for celebration with the release of the latest National Readership Survey results, as its weekly men’s offering Nuts came out ahead of rival Emap’s Zoo Weekly.Nuts has clocked up an adult readership of 1,174,000 in the six months to September, compared with a total of 910,000 for Zoo. The statistic builds… Continue reading Nuts Ahead Of Zoo In Readership Survey

The legal battle between Kelvin MacKenzie’s Wireless Group and RAJAR ended in victory for the radio ratings body this morning, with Mr Justice Lloyd striking out TWG’s claims of an abuse of market power under competition laws.The move brings to an end months of bitter claims and counter-claims between the two organisations, with the court… Continue reading RAJAR Exonerated As Wireless Court Case Struck Out

Walt Disney’s recently launched ABC1 entertainment channel has announced that it will soon begin to carry advertising, adopting an American format with no breaks between programmes, instead favouring breaks in the middle of its shows to achieve increased standout for advertisers.Advertising sales on the channel will be handled by DMS (Digital Media Sales). John De… Continue reading ABC1 Appoints DMS To Handle Unique Ad Structure

Online media heavyweight MSN has announced further growth in its UK Revenue Team, recruiting seven new members, to help drive digital marketing revenues throughout 2005.The sales team consists of 43 people in four teams; Agency Sales, Direct Client; Business Operations and Sales Strategy and Planning. The company expansion sees Kathryn Shannon join as Agency Sales… Continue reading MSN Restructures To Drive Digital Marketing Revenues

Video Networks Ltd, owners of broadband and digital TV providers HomeChoice, has announced that it is working with 7 Digital Media to launch the first ever television service enabling viewers to download music as they watch.The service will allow HomeChoice customers to buy tracks through their mobile phones as they watch them on Video Networks’… Continue reading HomeChoice To Launch TV Based Music Download Service

Satellite giant BSkyB has announced plans to launch its digital text service on Freeview, hoping to tempt potential subscribers away from the free-to-air system with a further demonstration of its own-brand satellite content services.Sky Text will be available in December to all digital terrestrial viewers and will add a further 3.7 million Freeview households to… Continue reading Sky To Launch Text Service On Freeview

The BBC has asked the government to extend its plans to review the progress of DAB digital radio for three years, saying that the digital radio market, industry and country are not yet ready for the digital switchover.Sales of digital radio sets are set to soar past one million units in Janurary, exceeded predictions earlier… Continue reading DAB Digital Radio Review Extended

The rising costs of fuel, coupled with increases in airfares, helped to push UK inflation to a five-month high during November, according to figures released today by the Office for National statistics.According to the ONS, the consumer prices index was up by 0.3% in November to 1.5 compared with 1.2 in October. Meanwhile the underlying… Continue reading Rising Fuel Costs Drive Inflation To Five-Month High