RAJAR’s latest figures, released this morning, showed that while All BBC managed to inch up another 0.4 percentage points quarter on quarter , All Commercial radio remained static in its share.All BBC Network Radio went up 0.2 percentage points, as did BBC Local and BBC Local/Regional. Local commercial radio saw percentage point gain of 0.4,… Continue reading BBC Local Stations Make Gains In Q1 2001 RAJAR Figures
News Corp, parent to News International and BSkyB in the UK, released its financial results last night, showing a net profit after tax of $127 million, down slightly on the $193 million of last year. The fall was principally due to a weaker Film market, according to analysts at ABN Amro. Newspaper revenues, however, were… Continue reading Newspapers And BSkyB Strong For News Corp
The following tables show the performances of each of the main UK radio groups in the latest RAJAR figures for the one year period to March 2001. BBC Radio Stations Weekly Reach (000s) Year On Year Comparisons Station Survey Period Ending Mar 2000 Ending Mar 2001 % Ch BBC 3 Counties H 175 142 -18.9… Continue reading March 2001 RAJAR – Performance By Ownership
Cable group NTL has this morning announced a quarterly revenues increase of 6% to £622 million, for the three months ended 31 March. At the same time EBITDA increased by 32% quarter on quarter to £86 million. Earlier in the week the group’s wholly-owned subsidiary, NTL Communications Corp, placed $1 billion worth of Convertible Notes;… Continue reading NTL Raises Cash For The Future
ITN’s pan-European news channel, EuroNews, has extended its service distribution to cover the UK and Ireland by broadcasting via the Eurobird satellite. The arrangement is unusual in that the Sky Digital will be used to broadcast the free-to-air service at the same time as Sky is battling, as part of a consortium, to oust ITN… Continue reading ITN European News Channel Launches UK Version On Sky Digital
WPP’s wholly-owned global branding, identity and consulting group, The Brand Union, has acquired UK-based Marketing & Communication Agency (“MCA”), an internal communications consultancy, for an undisclosed sum. MCA has offices in London, New York and Stockholm and specialises in providing multinational clients with brand-building tools, on both a corporate and employee level, through the creation… Continue reading WPP Acquires UK Communications Consultancy
RAJAR’s latest figures, released this morning, showed that while All BBC managed to inch up another 0.4 percentage points quarter on quarter to reach a 52.1% share of listening, All Commercial radio remained static with a 46% share.All BBC Network Radio went up 0.2 percentage points, as did BBC Local and BBC Local/Regional. Local commercial… Continue reading BBC Local Stations Make Gains In Q1 2001 RAJAR Figures
—> According to the latest figures from Neilsen NetRatings, about 379 million people around the world now have Internet access from home, and 211 of those are described as ‘active’ Internet users. These figures represent a growth rate of seven million new home users in March and ‘active’ use began growing again after February’s drop.… Continue reading Global Home Net Use Latest From Nielsen NetRatings
BSkyB’s interim results, which revealed subscriber numbers lower than analyst expectations and consequently affected profit and revenue figures (see BSkyB To Cease Analogue Broadcast This Summer), brought the broadcaster’s share price down by the close of yesterday’s trading. Shares finished down 52p at £8.04.Worse hit was Highbury House, which held its AGM yesterday and warned… Continue reading Sharewatch
According to a recent Oftel study of around 700 small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), a net connection is still a desirable asset and one which many have already invested in. 92% of medium businesses and 59% of small businesses are already connected to the internet
