Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli has been named in today’s press as another potential candidate to take over as chief executive of Channel 4 following the departure of Michael Jackson.Alli was one of the co-founders of Planet 24, which created former Channel 4 success story Big Breakfast. Channel 4 today refused to confirm rumours about… Continue reading Alli Tipped For Channel 4 Chief
The Newspaper Society (NS) is stepping up its national advertising drive with the creation of a new marketing committee and the appointment of a new marketing chairman and director.Jim Brown, chairman of Newsquest Media, will head up the marketing committee, which has been set up to increase the regional press’ share of national advertising business.David… Continue reading Newspaper Society Steps Up Ad Drive
BBC Worldwide is closing Star, its fortnightly teenage title, just a year after its launch.The celebrity magazine for 12-19 year old girls (see First Issue Review: Star), will fold at the end of October after failing to attract readers in the increasingly competitive teenage market.Head of publishing for BBC Wordwide’s teenage titles, Lyndsaye Fox, said:… Continue reading BBC’s Star Burns Out
ITV Digital has welcomed the launch of the Government’s Digital Action plan as a clear statement that it intends to make the digital switchover possible by the 2006-2010 deadline.Commenting on the initiative, ITV’s chief executive, Stuart Prebble, said: “Swift implementation of the digital action plan should significantly speed up the roll out and take up… Continue reading ITV Welcomes Digital Action Plan
Only 12% of digital viewers have ever interacted with an advert, according to the latest Digital Viewers Survey carried out by BMRB.The survey, which examined the viewing habits of almost 1000 digital subscribers, shows that of those that had interacted with adverts, over 50% found that the information they had accessed was “very uninteresting.”The younger… Continue reading Interactive Ads Flop With Digital Viewers
Virgin Radio is to run its first DAB visual text advertising campaign, it was announced today. A campaign supporting the National Geographic Channel’s Sunday evening quiz show National Geo Genius will run for ten weeks, scrolling across the programming messages screen instead of the usual Virgin Radio programming message.Lee Roberts, commercial development director at SMG… Continue reading Virgin Premieres DAB Text Ads
German pay-TV group, Kirch Media, is in discussions with the BBC and ITV to sell the broadcasting rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup competitions. Kirch owns the global broadcasting rights to the next two World Cup tournaments and will sell on these on a regiona by region basis. It has already reached an… Continue reading Kirch In Talks With BBC And ITV Over 2002/2006 World Cup Rights
Recent news-flow suggests that the telecoms sector is set to experience a raft of job cuts, as companies seek to reduce debt and costs and boost revenues. NTL Cable company, NTL, has cut its workforce from 23,200 in October last year to 18,500 in October 2001. Further cuts are planned to take the headcount down… Continue reading Flurry Of Job Losses Set For Telecoms Sector
US retail sales dropped sharply last month, adding to fears that the economy there may be slipping into a full recession. According to figures from the Department of Commerce (DOC), retail sales were down by 2.4% month on month in September, much worse than had been expected. The DOC altered the way it calculates seasonal… Continue reading Full Recession Looms As US Retail Sales Fall 2.4% In September
The Government has launched a Digital TV Action Plan which it says will help to increase the quality, reliability and geographical coverage of digital TV, as well as making switchover possible by the 2006-2010 deadline.The plan was outlined today by Douglas Alexander, e-commerce minister and Kim Howells, broadcasting minister, and includes the launch of a… Continue reading Government Launches Digital TV Action Plan
