The ABC Council has announced the members of the Audit Review Working Party, established last week to review the ABC auditing and inspection process after the discovery of false circulation reports (see ABC Creates Working Party To Tighten Audit Procedures).Chairman of ABC John Mayhead will chair the party and the other members will be as… Continue reading Members Of ABC Working Party Announced
Trinity Mirror is hoping to resolve advertisers’ cases for compensation following the discovery of false reporting of circulation figures at its Birmingham Post & Mail (BPM) division in November last year (see ABC Suspends Birmingham Titles). Three titles in the BPM group were found to have issued inflated circulation figures, through the Audit Bureau of… Continue reading IPA And Trinity Mirror To Settle Dispute Over False Circulations
Greg Dyke has backtracked on his promise to secure sports rights for the BBC. On his first day in his new position as director-general of the corporation he has said that it is highly unlikely that the BBC will bid for the live coverage of Premier League football.This is contrary to promises he made on… Continue reading BBC Unlikely To Bid For Premier League Rights, Says Dyke
Shares in BSkyB jumped 11% on Friday as French group Vivendi denied reports that it planned to sell it stake in the group (see Sharewatch). Prices closed at £13.09˝, making it the best performer on the FTSE 350.Pay-TV group Flextech climbed almost 10% to £14.25 as the terms of its merger with Telewest were confirmed… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Thursday The latest radio audience listening figures are released by RAJAR. The data covers the period to December 1999. Some stations report quarterly, some every six months and some annually. A series of sector Round-Ups will be available on Newsline and in the… Continue reading The Week Ahead
UK cable company Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) is about to announce that it has signed up over 100,000 customers to its digital television service. The digital cable service is gradually being rolled out around the country, with the launch taking place last July in Manchester (see Cable & Wireless Communications Rolls Out Digital TV… Continue reading CWC Takes 100,000 Digital Subscribers
Online advertising group Real Media has announced that it has doubled the size of its sales team in order to accommodate the company’s growth. The expanded team, headed by Jonathan Bill, now comprises ten account managers with the added support of two new telesales executives.Bill said: “This expansion allows us to maintain and enhance the… Continue reading Real Media Doubles Sales Team
Mobile data will have a U.S. population penetration rate of nearly 60% by 2007, up from its current 2%, according to a new report released by The Strategis Group. This better-than-expected growth is attributed to aggressive deployment of high-speed services in the U.S. In the study, US Mobile Data Marketplace, The Strategis Group examined wireless… Continue reading Forecasts by The Strategis Group say Mobile Data Penetration to Be Nearly 60% By 2007
Trinity Mirror was one of the best performers on the FTSE 350 yesterday; shares jumped 71˝p to a record 705p as several brokers boosted the stock. The group is now the largest regional publisher in the UK, according to the latest figures from the Newspaper Society (see Trinity Mirror Heads Regional Press League).Advertising group WPP… Continue reading Sharewatch
Guardian Unlimited has signed agreements to distribute its content on three new digital platforms. The Guardian’s network of websites will be available via mobile phone, digital interactive television and handheld computing devices.A deal with BT CellNet’s WAP mobile phones gives users access to content from News Unlimited and the ability to follow the day’s news… Continue reading Guardian Unlimited Embraces Multi-Platform Distribution
