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Chrysalis Group’s radio business has outperformed the market in the year to 31 August 2001, with revenues rising by 18.3% to £44.0 million, according to the company’s year-end financial results released this morning. This growth compares to a more or less flat performance of the radio market as a whole over the same period. Operating… Continue reading Strong Radio Performance Aids Chrysalis Results

Following months of negotiations (see ITV Close To Securing Sky Digital Carriage, Says FT), ITV has finally secured carriage for its flagship and entertainment channels on the Sky Digital platform. The conditional access agreement reached late yesterday means ITV1 will be available on channel 103 giving the Network access to Sky Digital’s 5.5 million subscribers,… Continue reading ITV Finally Agrees Satellite Carriage Terms With BSkyB

Shares in WPP rose to 686½ this morning as Lehman Bros reiterated its buy rating following an ad agency seminar yesterday. ABN AMRO reports that WPP may still see marginal improvements next year despite the ‘dull’ ad market. WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrel believes that the current climate indicates a structural/fundamental shift in the ad… Continue reading WPP Acquires Global Sportnet But Sees No Ad Upturn In 2002

News of ITV’s carriage deal with Sky Digital (see Digital Truce For ITV And Sky) came too late in the day to influence shares in either the ITV major shareholders, Granada and Carlton, which dropped 8.4% and 6% respectively, or BSkyB, which ended down 12p at £8.18.The largest losses were at radio owner Chrysalis, which… Continue reading Sharewatch

Advertising Association The latest long term figures from the Advertising Association forecast that for the period to 2013, UK consumer magazine advertising revenue will grow in real terms by between 28% and 50% rising to between £841 million and £989 million. The Long Term Advertising Expenditure Forecasts report also predicts that during the same period,… Continue reading Insight Sector Report: PRESS – 22.11.01

Chrysalis Group’s radio business has outperformed the market in the year to 31 August 2001, with revenues rising by 18.3% to £44.0 million, according to the company’s year-end financial results, released this morning. This growth compares to a more or less flat performance of the radio market as a whole over the same period.Operating profits… Continue reading Strong Radio Performance Aids Chrysalis Results

BlowUp Media has signed a deal with Thistle Hotels allowing it to use the group’s properties as giant advertising sites.The three-year contract covers all of Thistle’s 56 properties in the UK, providing BlowUp with the same number of sites. BlowUp will be responsible for installing and maintaining the posters and Thistle will receive a percentage… Continue reading BlowUp Signs Deal With Thistle Hotels

Dell.com, was the top online advertiser during October gaining exposure among 6,134,000 individual at home users. The corporate communications site commanded 41.6% digital reach of the total UK internet universe and averaged 7.9 page impressions per user. Freshstartloans.co.uk ousted Yahoo.com to become the sixth most popular online advertiser during October, the site was visited by… Continue reading New Media Round-Up

Leicester could become a testbed for subsidised digital radio if Emap’s application to the Radio Authority for the local digital radio licence is accepted. The company proposes making digital radio sets available for £49 if the bid, its first in an area where it does not run the local incumbent analogue radio service, is successful.Shaun… Continue reading Emap Proposes Subsidised Digital Radio

ITV’s deal with BSkyB to secure carriage on Sky’s Digital service is thought to be costing ITV £13m. Neither party would comment on the figure today, which is thought to have been the major sticking point in the long-running negotiations which led up to yesterday’s agreement (see Digital Truce For ITV And Sky). The money… Continue reading £13m Price Tag Put On ITV’s Sky Carriage