Stephen Byers, the new Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, is to face possibly his toughest decision yet when the Monopolies and Mergers Commission (MMC) hands over its report on the BSkyB bid for Manchester United Football Club today. The MMC has been investigating the matter since October last year (see Newsline).BSkyB, 40% of… Continue reading MMC Submits Report On BSkyB Man Utd Bid To DTI
MediaTel will be donating £1 to Comic Relief for every individual user signing into the main MediaTel database, the JICRIT radio system, Media Village or MediaTel Newsline during the course of Friday March 12th. Get clicking…www.mediavillage.co.uk www.jicrit.co.uk
Carlton Communications has announced that it is establishing a one-stop-shop for retailers and publishers of home entertainment products that want to sell via the internet.DHE, a Carlton subsidiary, is offering retailers and mail order companies an opportunity to link their web sites to a dedicated DHE sales site which will handle orders, credit card payments,… Continue reading Carlton Launches Internet Transaction Service For Retailers
Disgusting, filthy, obscene. I don’t care if Channel 4 screened the programme late, this sort of filth has no place on British screens. But enough about that ‘flea joke’ on last week’s Ally McBeal. C4’s Queer As Folk bounds onto screens with a pretty impressive 2.37 million on its first showing and a further 1.15… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 28/02/98
The latest round of national newspaper circulation figures, released by the ABC this afternoon, shows that the Financial Times is still performing stronger than the rest of the market year on year. Between the six months to February this year and the same period last year, the FT gained 39,689 in sales. Most other papers… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – February 1999
The first in the planned series of James Bond films, Goldeneye, saw ITV gain an audience of 12.1 million last night, according to unofficial overnight figures from the Network Centre. This represents an average 52% share of all viewing across the film’s two hour slot, from 9pm to 11pm.ITV’s peak-time salvo against the BBC was… Continue reading Goldeneye Nets 52% Share For ITV
http://www.empireonline.co.uk/Empire magazine is, as you all know, shiny colourful and lightweight – a fluffy compendium of Hollywood gossip and glossy pictures of attractive stars. It’s cinema glamour as seen by teenage boys and romance as imagined by girls infatuated with Leonardo Di Caprio (why? Why?).So I was expecting the online version to be full of… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Empire
Pearson suffered an 85p drop in its share price, falling to 1,337p. This follows a fairly positive set of financial results released yesterday, which reported a 19% leap in operating profit (see Newsline). By 10:30am today, the group’s price had fallen a further 13p to 1,324p.Carlton Communications, on the other hand, saw a 7˝p rise… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Radio Authority this week advertises the local digital radio multiplex licence for South Yorkshire. This is the fifth licence of its sort to be advertised by the RA which is releasing the ads at the rate of one per month. Licences for Birmingham, Manchester, Greater London and Glasgow have already by advertised (see RA… Continue reading Radio Authority Advertises South Yorkshire Digital Multiplex
The Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown are to give a joint live interview this morning on Talk Radio, from 9am onwards. This marks the first time in broadcast history that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have shared a studio to take calls and questions direct from the public. BBC News Online… Continue reading Newsline Brief
