BSkyB has expanded its online division with the appointment of two new senior executives. Meirion Alcock will join the group as head of retail commerce and Simon Green has been named as general manager for Sky Sports Online.Alcock joins the group from Flextech and will be responsible for developing a uniform strategy for e-commerce within… Continue reading BSkyB Strengthens Online Interests
Programmes December is usually a month of two halves for viewers and advertisers alike. At the start there is the customary strong line-up of programmes on ITV, then during Christmas week the channel holds back its big guns for the New Year and allows the BBC to outperform it. This is based on the premise… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – December 1999
Programmes December is usually a month of two halves for viewers and advertisers alike. At the start there is the customary strong line-up of programmes on ITV, then during Christmas week the channel holds back its big guns for the New Year and allows the BBC to outperform it. This is based on the premise… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – December 1999
Fifteen viewers complained to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) about an episode of Brookside which contained a scene of a couple having sex in a shower and another scene featuring a group of white racists.The episode, which was screened on a Saturday tea-time, also featured the word ‘shag’. Channel 4, which broadcasts the soap, notes… Continue reading Brookside Pulled Up For Sex And Racism
The Radio Authority (RA) has awarded the local digital multiplex licence for Liverpool to the sole applicant, EMAP Digital Radio. The licence, which covers Liverpool and the surrounding areas, will broadcast to a potential audience of 1.8 million adults (15+).EMAP Radio plans to broadcast eight programme services to the area drawn from its own station… Continue reading EMAP Wins Digital Radio Licence For Liverpool
The ITV Network’s commercial director, John Hardie, has tweaked his peaktime (7:00-10:30pm) audience share targets for 2000 to take into account the rapid growth in multichannel television viewing. In a presentation to advertisers the Network said its new target is to achieve a 1% increase in real terms in ITV’s average peaktime audience share.Originally Hardie… Continue reading ITV Adjusts Peaktime Target For 2000
Interactive television services platform, Open, has signed a deal with the Asda supermarket chain to sell the store’s goods from this summer. Asda joins a number of other retailers on the service, which launched last October (see Interactive TV Launches In The UK), including Woolworth’s, WHSmith, Domino’s Pizza, Carphone Warehouse, Dixons and Manchester United.Initially Asda… Continue reading Open Signs Asda To Interactive Service
Shares in global advertising group WPP surged yesterday after the company announced investments in three new media ventures. Stock closed up 61p at an all-time high of 1,129p.Pay-TV group Flextech has performed very strongly in the last few days. Flextech is a shareholder in Scottish Media Group (up 31˝p at 1,130p) which is itself completing… Continue reading Sharewatch
Shares in satellite broadcaster BSkyB surged on Friday to close up 145p (12.9%) at 1,266p. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is currently investigating the company’s position as a broadcaster and channel provider in the pay-TV market (see OFT To Review BSkyB’s Position In Pay-TV Market). Sky is hoping that the OFT’s review will lead… Continue reading Sharewatch
Chief executive of Katz, Simon Lynds, is to leave the company ahead of the group’s planned merger with Clear Channel (see Clear Channel And Katz Radio Sales Houses Set To Merge Following US Deal). Jay Conroy has been appointed managing director of Clear Channel Radio Sales from February when Katz’s staff are relocated to CCRS’… Continue reading Appointments Brief
