On Monday evening this week ITV unveiled its new evening schedule replacing over 30 years of the News at Ten. According to unofficial overnight figures, the new ITV Evening News, at 6:30pm, slightly outperformed the previous Monday’s edition of News at Ten. The first, brightly-coloured ITV Evening News had an audience figure of 7.2 million,… Continue reading First ITV Evening News Gains 7.2m Viewers
Granada showed a substantial rise in its share price of 47p to 1293˝p yesterday. Granada Television owns a number of franchises in the ITV Network, which this week launched its new schedule after the removal of its News At Ten bulletin (see Newsline).BSkyB’s shares rose 18źp yesterday to 560źp. It emerged this week that the… Continue reading Sharewatch
Newsline will provide coverage of the key developments in this afternoon’s Budget as it is delivered by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Newsline‘s Budget page will be set to automatically refresh every few seconds ensuring a full, rolling coverage throughout the Chancellor’s speech which is expected to begin around 3:30pm.
Talks between the French group Canal Plus and BSkyB about the possibility of an alliance to create a European pay-TV group (see Newsline) have been suspended.Following disagreements over the arrangement concerning management, where Canal Plus insisted that it have a dominant position in the management of the alliance (see Newsline)other problems have also come to… Continue reading Canal Plus And BSkyB Talks Suspended
The Scottish Media Group (SMG), which yesterday announced a 15% increase in turnover as part of its annual financial results (see Newsline), lost 34p from its share price, which dropped to 848p.Pearson showed another substantial rise in its price by the close of trading yesterday, rising 30p to 1431p. Yesterday’s Sharewatch saw the group climbing… Continue reading Sharewatch
IPC Magazines has appointed Chris Arrowsmith as marketing and promotions manager for Loaded, Uploaded and the six-monthly spin-off, Loaded Fashion. He has been at the publisher since 1996, previously working on Country Life and the equestrian titles.“This new role will help me concentrate my efforts on Loaded and associated brand extensions including Uploaded, Loaded Fashion,… Continue reading New Marketing Manager For Loaded
The Chancellor rose at 3:30pm.Inflation forecast to be 2.5% this year, next and the year after.The growth estimate for 1999 of 1% to 1.5% will grow to up to 2.75% in 2000 and between 2.75% and 3.25% in 2001.Current surplus forecast for 1999 is £2 billion.Public sector borrowing surplus is £1 billion.In the next five… Continue reading Budget Line – The Chancellor’s Speech As It Unfolds
Emap has appointed two UK directors to head up its its recently acquired US operation, Emap Petersen (see Newsline). Tom Moloney has been named Emap Petersen’s president and chief operating officer. He is currently chief executive of Emap Consumer Magazines. John Baillie, currently Emap’s director of finance and treasury, will be chief financial officer.Emap announced… Continue reading Emap Sends UK Staff Out To US Interests
More Group, the outdoor advertising arm of Clear Channel Communications (see Newsline), is to expand to India. The formation of More Group India is a joint venture between the More Group, Ogilvy & Mather and the Bombay based outdoor company Aaren.The early focus of the venture will be on India’s top-ten cities, and will develop… Continue reading More Group Expands To India
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) has today announced the acquisition of Scottish-based outdoor advertising contractor, Trainer Outdoor Advertising for £27.5 million. This represents SRH’s first development into the outdoor advertising industry which is currently enjoying a period of strong growth.SRH is planning to inject money into Trainer in order to expand the former’s cross-media offering to… Continue reading Scottish Radio Moves Into Outdoor With £27.5m Trainer Acquisition
