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UK media planning and buying and agency, Tempus, has this morning said that its business outperformed the advertising market in what chairman Chris Ingram described as “one of the most difficult years our industry has faced.” Tempus’ interim results come as global advertising and communications group, WPP, is hovering to seal a takeover of the… Continue reading Tempus Results Show Decent Performance In Tough Conditions, But Jobs Likely To Go

Capital Radio has acquired a 19% stake in Tainside, the company which owns and operates the two Choice FM radio stations in London. The group paid £3.3 million for the interest and has an option to acquire the remaining 81% of the issued share capital of Tainside. The transaction values the entire business at £16… Continue reading Capital Radio Takes Stake In Choice FM

MoreTrans, the transport and point of sale division of More Group has appointed a new head: Andre Coetzee is now sales manager, with responsibility for building the brand, which was recently boosted by More’s acquisition of Foxmark (see Advertising Targets Shopping Malls).Coetzee reports to Adam Butterworth, sales director of Adshel UK, who said: “He’s got… Continue reading MoreTrans Appoints Sales Manager

AOL Time Warner has said that the effects of the slowing advertising industry and the attack on the US two weeks ago are going to cause the company to miss its financial targets. The announcement is a further major indication of the hard times on which media companies are currently falling. The media giant said… Continue reading AOL Time Warner Gives Financial Warning

The ITC is merging its Advertising & Sponsorship and Programmes groups in a move which anticipates the creation of the new communications regulator, OFCOM, in 2003, which will bring five of the current regulators, including the ITC under one roof.Chief executive Patricia Hodgson said: “Given the likelihood of a single content area within OFCOM, there… Continue reading ITC Merges Content Groups

The deterioration of the US hi-tech advertising market is continuing according to analysts at ABN Amro who have today downgraded their forecasts for United Business Media’s hi-tech publishing group, CMP Media, accordingly. Revenues at CMP are now expected to fall by 23% in 2001, with profits down by a huge 72%. In 2002, revenues are… Continue reading ABN Downgrades CMP Media As Hi-Tech Advertising Continues To Fall

‘Deteriorating Prospects’ For Media SectorThe entire media sector has been substantially downgraded by analysts at ABN Amro, following the attacks on the US on Tuesday 11 September. The broker says that the outlook for advertising has deteriorated ‘significantly’ in the two weeks since the tragedy and there will be a negative short-term effect, particularly for… Continue reading ‘Deteriorating Prospects’ For Media Sector

Zenith Slams ITV DigitalZenith Media has launched a damning attack on ITV’s decision to press on with the investment in its digital terrestrial TV service, ITV Digital. According to the MediaGuardian website, the media buying agency – one of ITV’s biggest customers – has said in a report that nothing short of ‘divine intervention’ will… Continue reading Zenith Slams ITV Digital

Two weeks after the terrorist attacks in the US, the cost of the event to the media in Europe and the US is beginning to be calculated. In general the approach to news coverage of the attacks and aftermath have been well thought of, but there was a high cost in the necessary pulling of… Continue reading Terror Attacks: The Media Costs