Shares in broadcaster BSkyB dropped 5˝p yesterday to 581˝p. Open, the group’s joint interactive television venture with BT, HSBC, and Matsushita launches today.Shares in WPP rose as the advertising group announced its acquisition of The Brand Union (see WPP Buys The Brand Union). Prices closed up 20p to 620p.Reuters fell by 5p to 678p. The… Continue reading Sharewatch
Carlton Communications emerged as the FTSE’s best performer on Friday with shares in the broadcaster rising by over 4% to 444p. The surge in its prices came after sales figures for ONdigital, the group’s joint digital venture with Granada, broke previous records (see ONdigital Sales Up By 66%). Both Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers gave… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel’s weekly industry focus, Media Track, is featured in Campaign Media Business.Interactive television company, Open, this week launches its service on the Sky Digital platform.Tuesday The Retail Prices Index for September is released by the Office For National Statistics. Last month underlying inflation stood at 2.1%, below the Government’s current target of 2.5% for… Continue reading The Week Ahead
EMAP Online, the new media division of media group EMAP, has announced a partnership with Cybuy, a new e-commerce subsidiary from NatWest, to offer transactional banner ads on its websites. The deal will make EMAP Online the first internet publisher in Europe to use the Cybuy-developed service.The system has been designed to remove the barriers… Continue reading EMAP Online And NatWest Pioneer Transactional Advertising
BSkyB has announced today the appointment of John Swingewood as director of new media content and technologies. The former director of internet and multimedia services at BT, who quit his position last week, will head the new division from November 1. Capital Radio has appointed a new marketing executive for Capital Gold. James Fairclough, who… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Launched last week, handbag.com is the first in a recent wave of internet portals targetting women (see Telegraph And Boots Target Women With New Internet Service). A joint venture between Hollinger Telegraph New Media and Boots, its aim is to provide the modern woman with everything she needs, from relationship advice to gardening tips.A marketing… Continue reading Web Review: handbag.com
Reuters has signed a deal to supply news bulletins to ft.com. From today the information group will provide 26 news services to the Financial Times web site which will be a mixture of online business, technology and sports reports and specialist reports from individual financial markets.Pearson recently announced a revamp of its ft.com web site… Continue reading Reuters To Supply News To ft.com
Carlton Communications is understood to be planning to close three of its pay-TV channels – Carlton Select, Carlton World and Carlton Kids – as part of a broader restructure of the group’s pay-TV and digital operations.According to trade press magazine, Broadcast, Carlton’s managing director of programmes, Lord Waheed Alli, has been considering axing the stations… Continue reading Carlton Expected To Axe Pay-TV Channels
EMAP has promoted Tom Moloney to chief executive of the media group’s US magazine publishing division, EMAP Petersen. Moloney, previously chief operating officer, takes charge of the company after a period of poorer than expected ad revenues which have caused EMAP’s stock price to drop dramatically in recent weeks (see Sharewatch).Despite this EMAP describes Moloney’s… Continue reading Management Changes At EMAP Petersen
The Independent Television Commission has embarked on a review of the digital points system, the results of which will be announced on October 11. It is believed the system, which was designed to prevent one broadcaster dominating the platforms, will be overhauled and the Sky Sports 2 problem (see Digital TV Wrangles Continue Over Sky… Continue reading Newsline Brief
