ITV’s bid to bring football to Saturday evenings was shown the yellow card this weekend after its highlights show, The Premiership, was beaten in the ratings by a special edition of the BBC’s The Weakest Link.ITV’s version of Match Of The Day, which was shown for the first time at 7pm on Saturday, failed to… Continue reading ITV’s The Premiership Fails To Score
Rivals.net, the Chrysalis owned sports site, is building on its reputation within football-related media with the launch of its first magazine The Score.The magazine, aimed at “passionate football fans”, will be published every six weeks and will have a cover price of £1.50. Content will be “irreverent, unique football content from a fans perspective that… Continue reading Rivals.net Launch The Score
Standard Media International has today officially suspended publication of The Industry Standard, the weekly magazine that chronicled the dotcom boom.The magazine that monitored internet stocks has itself become a victim of the dotcom downturn and will file for bankruptcy unless a last minute buyer can be found.The Standard will continue to publish its website, The… Continue reading The Industry Standard Suspended
TalkSPORT have signed CIS Insurance as sponsor of its new flagship football phone-in show, in a deal thought to be worth around £1m.The deal will include sponsorship and airtime spots across talkSPORT’s Premiership coverage and will see CIS sponsor the station’s 505 Saturday afternoon phone-in show, which fields calls from football fans travelling back from… Continue reading talkSPORT Signs Football Sponsor
Global advertising and communications group, WPP, has this morning posted interim financials in line with expectations, at the same time confirming a 555p per share offer for UK-based media and communications group Tempus.Pre-tax profit at WPP rose by 80% to £247.6 million, whilst revenues rose by 65% to £1.997 billion for the six months to… Continue reading WPP Posts Strong Interims
Channel 5 has poached three senior programming executives from Channel 4. Andrew Newman, Dan Chambers and Sue Murphy have been all appointed programming controllers at Channel 5.Andrew Newman, currently head of programmes at E4 is to become Channel 5’s new controller of entertainment. As head of programmes at E4, Newman was responsible for shows such… Continue reading Channel 5 Poaches Execs From 4
WPP this morning made clear its intentions regarding Tempus Group, confirming that an offer of 555p-a-share had been made (see WPP Poised To Make Counter Bid For Tempus). This values Tempus at £440 million, an increase on the 541p-a-share offer made by Havas in July (see Tempus Shares Soar On Havas Takeover Reports) which put… Continue reading Tempus Confirms WPP Offer
Global advertising and communications group, WPP, has this morning posted interim financials in line with expectations, at the same time confirming a 555p per share offer for UK-based media and communications group Tempus (see Tempus Confirms WPP Offer). Pre-tax profit at WPP rose by 80% to £247.6 million, whilst revenues rose by 65% to £1.997… Continue reading WPP Posts Strong Interims
Recent months have seen increased consolidation with the media market as the increasing trend towards globalisation leads to one independent after another being snapped up by the ‘big boys’ of the industry. The name in the frame for the past month has been Tempus, which seemed likely to be bought by French advertising agency Havas… Continue reading The Media Agency Landscape, Consolidation And Globalisation
The interest surrounding Tempus at the moment (see WPP Bid Could Prompt Further Consolidation) benefited Cordiant shares, which rose 3p to £1.76. WPP, on the other hand, thought to be the interested purchaser, slipped 2½p to £6.84½.There were few climbers among the media companies on yesterday’s market. One was Granada, part owner of ITV Digital,… Continue reading Sharewatch
