Hotels and television group, Granada, has this morning denied a report in today’s Guardian that it plans to split its two main operations by listing the television and hotels holdings separately.Following an interview with Granada’s group chief executive, Charles Allen, the paper reported that he was hoping to realise the ‘true value’ of the company… Continue reading Granada Says Media/Hotels Split Is ‘Not On The Agenda’
A talented and powerful panel of leading media figures has accepted invitations to take part in MediaTel’s inaugural Media Question Time to be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House on the evening of Monday 24 May.Presented in association with the Economist, the event will be chaired by BBC Radio media correspondent, Torin Douglas.… Continue reading First Media Question Time Attracts Powerful Panel
Sky Digital and Panasonic announced today that they are launching the first idTV (integrated digital television) early next year. The new televisions will be the first to contain both digital satellite and digital terrestrial integrated tuners, and will enable customers to access the two DTV services on the same television without separate set-top boxes. Andrew… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Granada fell back by 40p on Friday, after two major announcements rocked the UK’s television industry. Firstly, BSkyB announced that it is to give away the £200 decoder boxes needed to receive its Sky Digital television service (see Digital TV War Intensifies). This will impact on Granada and Carlton’s (down 2˝p) digital terrestrial television service,… Continue reading Sharewatch
Tuesday Radio group, GWR, releases its final financial results.The Media Research Group (MRG) is holding an Evening Meeting beginning 6pm at Leo Burnett. The evening will focus on the issues of marketing to kids. Leo Burnett’s Denise Gardiner will give a preview of her Kid Power ’99 Conference paper, entitled The World Is A Small… Continue reading The Week Ahead
BSkyB is the least trusted company in Britain as far as the country’s youth is concerned, although 48% of people feel that digital television is a must. These are some of the findings of the Spring ’99 Survey by Right of Admission Reserved (ROAR), which is a consortium including Carlton Screen Advertising, the Guardian/Observer, Kiss… Continue reading ‘BSkyB Least Trusted British Company’ Says ROAR Survey
After a soar in the share price of BSkyB on Wednesday following the announcement of an aggressive marketing drive in the form of set-top box giveaways (see Newsline), the broadcaster’s value fell off by the close of trading yesterday, dropping 28p to 579p.At the same time, digital terrestrial TV competitor ONdigital mounted its own offer… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Bank of England has put interest rates on hold amid signs that the current round of reductions is at or near an end. After seven cuts in the last eight months, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted to leave rates unchanged at 5.25%.The decision came as a bitter blow to manufacturers and unions who… Continue reading Interest Rates On Hold
Later, the new men’s title from IPC Magazines, joined the men’s lifestyle magazine market last week in a flash of controversial publicity as two of its ads were withdrawn by the Advertising Standards Authority (see IPC’s Later Poster Campaign Censured By ASA).The majority of titles in this sector are aimed at men in their late… Continue reading Later Looks For An Older Lad
The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) has commissioned an annual research study into its performance and value across all of its business and media sectors. Gilmour Research is to carry out the study which will involve 450 publishers, media agencies and marketing departments.The ABC is hoping that the research will identify the value of the… Continue reading ABC Commissions Study Of Its Performance
