Programmes ITV’s decision to screen nine editions of Coronation Street, five episodes of Emmerdale and a week’s worth of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, helped the channel to pull in big audiences. The late night editions of Coronation Street: After Hours boosted ITV’s old News at Ten slot, with the best weekday performance coming… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – November 1999
Shares in Carlton Communications closed up 16p at 573p as the television group emerged as the most likely target for a takeover bid by Granada (see Market Backs Carlton As Most Likely Target For Granada). United News & Media’ shares fell at the news that Granada was planning to scupper its proposed merger deal with… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday A TV Viewing Round-Up for November 1999 will be available on Newsline and in the Television features list later on today.MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Tuesday Digital terrestrial broadcaster, ONdigital, is to release its latest set of subscriber figures. As of September last year, the service had 411,000… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The Guardian is to celebrate its first year on the internet with a week of themed editorial in its newspaper and on the Guardian Unlimited website. From 15-22 January the future of the Net will be explored in a week of dedicated features and supplements.The Guardian will run exclusive extracts from “The New, New Thing”,… Continue reading Guardian Celebrates First Year Online
The Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) and Leo (Burnett) Group agencies have this afternoon confirmed the merger of their respective UK media operations, Motive and Starcom, to form the Starcom Motive Partnership (SMP). The combined group will become the third largest media services company in the UK with estimated annual billings of £440 million.SMP will be… Continue reading Starcom And Motive Confirm Merger
Cable group Telewest Communications has added a further fifteen companies to its interactive TV service. Available from Spring on the group’s Active Digital platform (see Telewest Builds Interactive Service To Rival Open), the service now boasts a total of 29 partners providing content for its interactive outlets, and puts cable at the forefront of interactive… Continue reading Retailers Back Telewest’s Cable Interactive Service
Programmes ITV’s decision to screen nine editions of Coronation Street, five episodes of Emmerdale and a week’s worth of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, helped the channel to pull in big audiences. The late night editions of Coronation Street: After Hours boosted ITV’s old News at Ten slot, with the best weekday performance coming… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – November 1999
The Radio Advertising Bureau has produced a list of the top ten radio advertisers from the last decade. Most of the brands in the list have been in the top ten of each year’s top spenders throughout the decade and each successive year has seen an increase in the amount of money the majority spent… Continue reading Top Ten Radio Advertisers Of The Decade Revealed
Shares in Granada fell as the media and leisure group made a formal submission to the Office of Fair Trading to seek consent to make a bid for either Carlton Communications or United News & Media (see Granada Poised To Bid For Rivals). Prices fell 14˝p to 581˝p.The Daily Mail & General Trust was one… Continue reading Sharewatch
Carlton is emerging as the most likely target for a takeover bid by Granada. Shares in the group rose rapidly as news of Granada’s formal submission to the OFT (see Granada Poised To Bid For Rivals) affected prices.This morning Granada sent a letter to the Stock Exchange confirming its interest in acquiring one of the… Continue reading Market Backs Carlton As Most Likely Target For Granada
