BBC Worldwide has recruited a marketing manager for “Project Urma” from IPC Media. Janneke Diemel, who was senior marketing information executive for Marie Claire and Marie Claire Health and Beauty will work on an autumn launch of the new women’s magazine, the title of which is yet to be revealed. Reuters has succeeded in nabbing… Continue reading Appointments Brief
London Metro, the free morning daily launched by Associated Newspapers last year (see Associated Newspaper Delays Launch Of London Daily), has broken into profit but the launch of its sister titles around the UK knocked profits of its parent company Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT). Pre-tax profits before exceptionals and goodwill for the six-month… Continue reading Metro Success Eats Into DMGT Profits
Reed International continued to do well on the strength of its chief executive Crispin Davies’ positive comments at the Merrill Lynch conference (see Sharewatch). Prices rose 26p to finish at £5.26 at the close of yesterday’s trading. Ulster Television also had a good day, gaining 20p to end at £2.92½.BSkyB shares continued to slump following… Continue reading Sharewatch
Confidence in the future of dotcoms may be wavering on the stock exchange but it has not put Matthew Wright, showbiz editor at the Mirror, off leaving Fleet Street for net-based journalism. Wright has been appointed editorial director for www.mykindaplace.com, the on-line magazine for teenage girls due to launch this summer.Commenting on his decision to… Continue reading Mykindaplace.com To Target Girl Power On The Net
The large television audiences gained by international football matches and competitions are a key bargaining tool for commercial TV networks to squeeze more revenue out of advertisers. Top home nation games can achieve by far the highest viewing figures of the whole year’s schedule, with an audience that is larger than average across the men,… Continue reading Feature: Advertisers Line Up As Euro 2000 Kicks Off
Babies. They’re the new lads, or perhaps the new decorating and gardening. It seems that when Natmags closed its year-old parenting title M last July and integrated Having a Baby into Good Housekeeping (see Natmags Gives Parenting Magazine The Chop), or when Emap Elan folded Parents in August and blamed the absence of a market… Continue reading Feature: Print And The New Media Generation
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) published proposals today relating to the future of regional programming on ITV. They form part of the programme of research and consultation on the future of public service broadcasting on commercial free-to-air channels launched last month (see ITC To Launch Public Service Broadcasting Debate).Despite the fact that more programmes for… Continue reading ITC Proposes Protection For ITV Regional Programming
Local digital radio was born today as the first local multiplexes launched in the UK. CE Digital, the digital broadcasting consortium comprising Capital and Emap, rolled out its multiplexes across London, Birmingham and Manchester.A total of 23 radio services will begin broadcasting to a potential audience of 14 million listeners. In London the first digital… Continue reading Local Digital Radio Launches In The UK
News that European media groups Kirch and Vivendi were getting rid of large amounts of their shares in BSkyB caused the share price of the satellite broadcaster to fall yesterday, by 86p to £12.85.There was more bad news for Emap, which has just lost its finance director, David Grigson, to Reuters. Share prices slumped 55p… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold at 6% for the fourth consecutive month. Although there have been some signs of sterling weakening recently, UK industry is likely to want a further evidence of a slow down before rates go up again.
