The GWR group has announced the first, free, interactive radio initiative, CoreControl, through its national digital station Core. From next week listeners will be able to log into the Core music database to request the songs they would like to hear.CoreControl will be available at www.core.musicradio.com from Monday. Listeners will choose the song they want… Continue reading GWR’s Core Goes Interactive
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) announced today that the proposed mergers between United News & Media and either Carlton or Granada “would not operate against public interest”. The decision follows two separate public consultations on the cross media aspects of the proposals.United News & Media owns several newspapers, including the Express titles and the Daily… Continue reading ITC Says Proposed Mergers Pass Public Interest Test
Emap released full year results this week which showed a normalised pre-tax profit of £184.3m (see EMAP And Channel 4 Unite In Digital Venture). Share prices duly rose during yesterday’s trading (see The company began its 1999/2000 financial year by teaming up with Capital Radio in a consortium which bid for the Manchester digital radio… Continue reading Sharewatch Focus – Emap
Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son, James, is to take on the role of chairman and chief executive of the News Corporation pan-Asian TV empire, Star TV. Last month another of the media mogul’s offspring, Elisabeth, quit her post at Sky to pursue other projects (see Elisabeth Murdoch To Quit Sky), including, it has recently emerged, the… Continue reading Appointments Brief
Consumers are confused by dotcom advertising and need help and guidance when dealing with new technology, rather than patronising complex imagery. This is according to a new report commissioned by OgilvyInteractive which showed that despite a massive adspend by dotcom brands, unprompted awareness of their products was negligible.A total 1000 adults were surveyed from which… Continue reading Dotcom Ads Confuse The Public, Says Ogilvy Report
Rumours arose yesterday that Cinven is considering the sale of IPC instead of flotation. Emap has been suggested as having an interest, but no official comment has been made. Shares in Emap yesterday finished up 8p at £11.53.Bright Station appears to be recovering from the recent TMT crisis and rose 5½p to 74½p yesterday. Telewest… Continue reading Sharewatch
Bright Station has stepped forward to help save the fate of two recent internet failures. The web solutions and e-commerce company formerly known as Dialog, is to buy the technology side of online sports retailer boo.com and is part of a consortium rescue package for technology news service Netimperative.Boo.com collapsed last week through lack of… Continue reading Bright Station To Buy Boo Infrastructure
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) today published the first of two consultation documents on the future role for public service broadcasting on commercial television. The commission announced its intention to debate the subject earlier this month (see ITC To Launch Public Service Broadcasting Debate) as part of a major programme of work into the expectations… Continue reading ITC Publishes Consultation Paper On Public Service Broadcasting
NTL has made the highest bid for the broadcasting rights to live Premier League matches, according to recent press reports. The cable giant is said to have bid £1.75bn for the games, a higher price than those put forward by its rivals BSkyB and ONdigital.A report in the Sunday Business this weekend claimed that NTL… Continue reading NTL Outbids Sky For Premiership Rights
Dixons plans to auction its stake in UK internet service provider, Freeserve, according to reports today. The group, which owns an 80% stake in the ISP, is believed to have allowed bidders up to ten days to place offers for the company, which it expects to be valued at £6bn.Cable group NTL is expected to… Continue reading Dixons To Auction Freeserve
