Pearson, which announced in December that 2001 profits at the FT Group could fall by as much as 40% on 2000 (see Pearson Warns On Profits), saw shares rise 2.84% yesterday to finish at £8.13, an increase of 22˝p on Monday’s closing price.BSkyB, which was recently awarded the contract to produce the successor to Channel… Continue reading Sharewatch
Multi-channel viewing has grown dramatically over the past five years acheiving 20% of veiwing share in 2001, according to data from BARB, twice the share it had in 1996. Over the same period of time, ITV’s share has decreased from 35% to 27% and BBC’s from 44% to 38%. UK Share Of Viewing Trends, 1996… Continue reading UK Viewing Trends Show Gains For Pay TV
The BBC’s Top Of The Pops went interactive for the first time on Christmas Day drawing an audience of 4.7 million and achieving a 46% share of viewing.The festive special, which was shown at 2pm on Christmas day, featured a series of interactive services allowing TOTP‘s digital viewers to sing along with their favourite hits,… Continue reading Interactive Top Of The Pops Is A Hit
The Conservative Party is calling on the Government to amend the existing media ownership regulations and pass emergency legislation that will enable the establishment of a single ITV.The Shadow Media Secretary, Tim Yeo, has said that he plans to publish a bill proposing urgent amendments to the 1990 broadcasting act that will liberalise the “excessively… Continue reading Tories Call For ITV Consolidation
Recruitment advertising revenue represented 26.1% of the £1.8bn spent on classified ads in the regional press during 2000 (Advertising Association Yearbook). With over 50% of UK residents now in the online habit (Office of National Statistics), increasing numbers of online recruitment sites are poised to claim a cut of this revenue.Several of the UK’s web… Continue reading Feature: Recruitment Websites
For the first time in over 40 years the BBC is claiming victory over ITV in the annual ratings war with figures for 2001 showing that across all hours more people watched BBC1 than ITV1.Early figures from BARB show that during 2001 BBC1 had an overall audience share of 26.8% compared with 26.7% for ITV1.… Continue reading BBC Claims Ratings Victory Over ITV
Terry Mansfield, managing director of the National Magazine Company (Natmags) has been included in the New Years’ Honours list. He will receive a CBE for services to the publishing industry.Mansfield has been MD at Natmags since 1982, having begun his career in advertising management in 1961 at Condé Nast. He joined Natmags in 1969 and… Continue reading Natmags MD In Line For CBE
The year began with good news for the cinema industry. Research from CIA showed that, while the medium remains one of the smallest in terms of share of UK advertising revenue, the amount of money spent by advertisers on the silver screen had continued to rise steadily over the decade. The biggest revenue source was… Continue reading End Of Year News Round-Up: Cinema
” ‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked. ‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’ “ Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926.And so it was in 2001 that we inched towards recession month by month until the events of 11th September. Media giants who had previously boasted that their size and diversity of… Continue reading The Media Financial Year In Review
” ‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked. ‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’ “ Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926. And so it was in 2001 that we inched towards recession month by month until the events of 11 September. Media giants who had previously boasted that their size and diversity… Continue reading 2001: The Year In Brief
