The Financial Times is launching a new weekly tabloid supplement for the fund management industry called FTfm.The supplement, which launches on 4 February, will be distributed with the FT on Monday’s and will feature news, analysis and market trends. The FT‘s sales manager, Jeremy Baulf, said: “We have always offered comprehensive coverage of this industry… Continue reading FT To Launch New Weekly Supplement
News International has called on the Government to reform the media ownership regulations claiming that the current system is “highly discriminatory” and “too rigid to allow organic growth.”In its response to the DCMS’s consultation on media ownership rules, which currently prevent any newspaper owner with more than a 20% share of the market from owning… Continue reading News International Calls For Ownership Law Reform
Cable company NTL has confirmed that it has appointed a number of banks and brokers to undertake a recapitalisation of the company in order to reduce debt. Credit Suisse First Boston, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley will advise the broadband cable group on a recapitalisation structure and reduction of its $12 billion debt burden. CEO Barclay… Continue reading NTL Confirms Recapitalisation Moves
Casino-on-net was the top online advertiser for men during December 2001. The online gambling site gained exposure among 4,149,000 individual male users throughout the month and achieved 27.9% reach of the total at-home internet universe. Amazon.co.uk held on to a strong mid-table position and was the fourth most popular online advertiser for men during December.… Continue reading New Media Round-Up
There has been much talk in the advertising community recently about the threat to television advertising revenues from personal video recorder (PVR) technologies, such as Tivo. These digital recorders are able to hold large of amounts of programming on hard disk and can ‘learn’ which types of programme the viewer would like to have recorded.… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Should Advertisers Fear Digital Video Recorders?
The following tables show the best and worst performers, in terms of weekly reach and share of listening, of the local commercial stations broadcasting outside London.The following stations were reporting on revised TSAs this period (New TSA in brackets): Peak 107 FM (405,227); Fresh AM (173,545); Kingdom FM (271,384); Q102.9FM/Q97.2FM (244,327); FM107.6 The Fire (289,671);… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q4 2001: Local Commercial Stations
The period ending December 2001 was one of mixed fortunes for London’s commercial radio stations. Kiss 100 FM added 6% to its weekly reach period on period and Capital FM saw a rise of 1.7%, bringing its reach to just below 3 million. At the other end of the scale, Jazz FM 102.2 saw a… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q4 2001: Mixed Fortunes For London’s Commercial Radio Stations
RAJAR Results Q4 2001- Overall SummaryToday’s RAJAR listening figures for the 3 month period to December 2001 show that BBC Radio has retained a larger share of listening than Commercial Radio.While Commercial Radio’s losses were spread across both local and national stations, the BBC only saw share of listening increase period on period for its… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q4 2001-
Overall Summary
Year on year, the largest percentage increase in weekly reach among national stations was at BBC Radio 2, which put in a strong performance again, increasing 15.5% year on year to achieve an average weekly reach of 12.3 million.In the commercial sector Classic FM managed an increase of just under 11% year on year. Meanwhile… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q4 2001- National Stations
Capital, which is eagerly awaiting the release of the latest RAJAR data this morning, was one of the best media performer’s in yesterday’s market. Shares were up 1.58% to close at £6.75˝, an increase of 10˝p on the day before.At the other end of the scale Cordiant was the worst performer in yesterday’s media market.… Continue reading Sharewatch
