Pearson continued to see shares fall yesterday after releasing its interim financial results on Monday (see Pearson Results Show FT Profits Hit By Ad Downturn). Stock dropped 1.29% to finish at £10.73 for the day, a loss of 14p on the previous day.ITV partners, Carlton and Granada continued to see shares rise in yesterday’s market.… Continue reading Sharewatch
Following the release by BSkyB of Sky+, a new integrated personal video recorder, Datamonitor foresees rapid uptake of new set top boxes across Europe. Datamonitor predicts that by 2005, 48% of set top boxes will include PVR technology. 42% of households with digital TV are also forecast to have more than one set top box… Continue reading A New Era For Set-Top Boxes Dawns, Says Datamonitor
Capital Radio has appointed David Andrews as marketing chief, with responsibility for Capital’s FM music stations and Gold Network.In line with Capital’s intention to build strong brands, Andrews will be responsible for defining and developing the marketing and business strategy for the CHR network (the umbrella brand for Capital’s FM music stations) and the Gold… Continue reading New Marketing Chief At Capital
The NRS figures for the six month period ending June 2001 show national newspaper readership continues to decline. The sector overall was down 3% compared with the same period last year, with all but six titles losing readership.The Daily Express continued to see its readership decline, seeing the largest percentage drop, with readership down 20.9%… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS Round-Up – June 2001
Granada has completed its acquisition of Border Television from Capital Radio for £50.5m, reinforcing the media group’s position as ITV’s leading shareholder.Granada, which agreed to buy Border from Capital last April (see Granada Agrees To Buy Border TV Assets), now owns six of the 14 ITV regional licences and has increased its share of the… Continue reading Granada Completes Border Deal
Go Racing, the consortium which owns the rights to British horseracing, has renamed itself “attheraces” and rebranded with a new corporate identity.The consortium, made up of by BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, was forced to rename itself after discovering that the domain name, ‘Goracing’ was unavailable and could not be used for the company’s… Continue reading Go Racing Rebrands
The completion date for TV’s “digital revolution” may remain unclear, but the democracy that a multi-channel world brings is already in evidence in TV viewing patterns. The audience has not changed much in size, but the traditional strongholds of ITV and BBC1 have seen their share drift downwards in recent years, with the main beneficiaries… Continue reading Feature: Losses And Gains In TV
The events programme for the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) 2001 has been announced. Key speakers will include: ITV’s director of programmes, David Liddiment, who will deliver the MacTaggart Lecture; president of Endemol Entertainment John de Mol, who will give the Worldview Address and Dawn Airey, chief executive of Channel 5, who will give… Continue reading GEITF Announces Events Programme
Bidding for the four-year ITV news contract closes today and ITN will be challenged for the first time by the Channel 3 News consortium.ITN has provided news on the ITV network for 46 years and will face competition for the contract, which begins in 2003 and is thought to be worth in excess of £150m,… Continue reading Bidding Closes For ITV News Contract
Despite a huge potential market, UK firms lack the capability to exploit the B2B online market, according to a new report by Forrester. Online business could be worth £300 billion by 2005 says Forrester but firms will have to work hard to overcome their current organisational and technological difficulties in order to reap the benefits… Continue reading UK Online B2B Commerce Will Be Worth
