Condé Nast and Ministry Of Sound have moved to deny rumours that their joint lifestyle title, Trash, is set to fold after just one issue and are claiming the magazine had a strong sales debut.Ministry insists the pilot issue recorded strong sales and is already outselling many of its competitors in the music and style… Continue reading Condé Nast And Ministry Declare Faith In Trash
Following an extensive bidding process, the satellite broadcaster BSkyB has secured exclusive live television rights to Premiership football for a further three years in separate deals totalling £1.024 billion.The free to air highlights package has been awarded to the BBC for £105 million, paving the way for the return of Match Of The Day on… Continue reading BSkyB And BBC Big Winners In Premiership Bidding Contest
Consumers are catching on to the benefits of digital radio and new research from Dixons suggests the revolution is rapidly gathering pace with digital radios now accounting for half the sales of all portable radio sets.The electronics retailer, which made around 50% of its radio set revenues from digital devices, claims the increasing range and… Continue reading Consumers Catch On To Digital Radio As Sales Increase
Strategy Analytics questioned 525 US broadband households on which kinds of services they would be interested in and whether they would be willing to subscribe to them. The response was that a significant majority of people are still unwilling to pay for online content.Also On MediaTel Insight Today… Demand For Integrated Digital TV Sets To… Continue reading MediaTel Insight: Broadband Users Want Premium Content
ITV’s Pop Idol is expanding its interactive applications to enable viewers to vote for contestants via their remote controls for the first time.Fans of the reality-TV talent show will be able to access a range of interactive content and a number of games created by Littlewoods Game On. The new services will be available on… Continue reading Pop Idol Expands Interactive Applications
Following an extensive bidding process, the satellite broadcaster BSkyB has secured exclusive live television rights to Premiership football for a further three years in separate deals totalling £1.024 billion. The free to air highlights package has been awarded to the BBC for £105 million, paving the way for the return of Match Of The Day… Continue reading BSkyB And BBC Big Winners In Premiership Bidding Contest
Trinity Mirror is on track to achieve its objective of £25 million of annualised savings by 2005, following a spate of cutbacks throughout the company, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. The broker asserts that Sly Bailey’s appointment as chief executive (see Bailey Leaves IPC To Replace Graf At Trinity Mirror) has stimulated activity at… Continue reading Trinity To Reap Rewards Of Cost-Cutting, Says Merrill Lynch
Radio station operator and production company, UBC Media, said that it has managed to boost commercial airtime revenues in June and July, after taking ‘remedial action’ earlier in the year. In June, UBC said that airtime sales for the first two months of its financial year were below expectations (see UBC Moves Into Profit In… Continue reading UBC Sees Radio Revenue Turnaround After Weak Start
Reed Elsevier today reported a 3% increase in pre-tax profits for the first half of 2003 and expressed confidence that full year revenue growth targets will be reached. The Anglo-Dutch publisher outperformed analysts’ expectations and the market as a whole partly as a result of a 4% rise in revenues at the science and medical… Continue reading Reed On Target As Profits Rise In H1
ITV partners, Carlton and Granada, were in focus again yesterday after a note from leading brokers, Morgan Stanley, reiterated an underweight rating for the two groups.According to analysts, there are likely to be incremental costs if Carlton and Granada’s sales houses are spun off to enable their merger to go through. These are expected to… Continue reading Sharewatch: ITV Partners Fall On Negative Guidance
