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The recent explosion in the telecoms technology market, coupled with the the steep price decline in services has led to the emergence of a healthy bandwidth exchange market which is set for continued growth. “The sizable investment into leading online exchange operations, the growing member list, and the use of leading online exchange operations are… Continue reading Bandwidth Exchange Market Will Continue To Grow

The creation of Emap’s internal advertising sales house, Emap Advertising, caused enough disruption to have an adverse effect on consumer magazine advertising revenues, according to the company’s first half results, released today. The company stated that “the disruption created by the formation of Emap Advertising resulted in consumer magazine advertising under-performing in a reasonably buoyant… Continue reading Disruption Of Creating Emap Advertising Shrinks Magazine Revenue During First Half

Shares in Future Network have plummeted after the company issued a profits warning to the stock market this morning. The company has indicated that underlying profits for the year to December 2000 will be around £40m, around £6m lower than analysts’ estimates published earlier in the year.Future has given a number of reasons for this,… Continue reading Future Shares In Freefall As True Cost Of Accounting Errors Is Revealed

Channel 4 learned the hard way about the dangers of live broadcasting this summer, and recieved a slap on the wrist from TV regulators the Independent Television Commission (ITC) this month as a consequence. The live broadcast in question was Capital Radio’s “Party in the Park” concert, which was broadcast in the early afternoon on… Continue reading Channel 4 Rapped By Regulators For Swearing Incident During Live Broadcast

The creation of Emap’s internal advertising sales house, Emap Advertising, caused enough disruption to have an adverse effect on consumer magazine advertising revenues, according to the company’s first half results, released today. The company stated that “the disruption created by the formation of Emap Advertising resulted in consumer magazine advertising under-performing in a reasonably buoyant… Continue reading Disruption Of Creating Emap Advertising Shrinks Magazine Revenue During First Half

Granada Media claims that ITV is winning the ratings battle against the BBC, which has escalated since it was announced that BBC1’s 9pm news bulletin would move to the controversial 10pm slot (see BBC To Broadcast News At Ten).Before the autumn schedules kicked off, ITV claimed an 8.6% share point lead over the BBC. Since… Continue reading ITV May Be Winning In Autumn’s Ratings Battle

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is to lift the prohibition on the advertising of services offering to diagnose, advise, prescribe or treat medical or health matters by correspondence. However, in order for licensees to accept such advertising material, staff who provide the remote services must be subject to regulation by statutory of recognised parties, including… Continue reading ITC Makes Changes To Rules On Medical Advertising

Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch publishing company of which Reed International is a part, announced the launch of a £70m internet investment venture last week (see Reed Elsevier Announces £70m Venture Fund). The news may have been a contributing factor in Reed International being one of the best media performers during the week. Despite falling 2p… Continue reading Sharewatch

Monday MediaTel’s weekly media focus and analysis, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.EMAP releases interim results for the six months ending 30 September 2000.Tuesday The consumer retail prices index for October is released by the Office for National Statistics.Wednesday Full year results released by Scottish Radio, while interim results are made available by… Continue reading The Week Ahead

Future Network will launch its Official PlayStation2 Magazine 2 today ahead of the launch of the new games console later in the month. Future will no doubt hope the new title enjoys the same success of its stablemate Official Playstation Magazine. In the meantime, a new appointment has been made, in the form of Karen… Continue reading Appointments Brief