Agency estimates for February 1999 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue (including GMTV) at £204.01 million. Year on year ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 all show increases in their ad revenue whilst GMTV shows a loss of revenue.ITV’s total revenue was up by 16.7% to an estimated £141.1 million, C4’s rose by 8.9% to… Continue reading TV Revenue – February 1999
Future Publishing is planning a raft of new magazine launches in the coming weeks starting with the dirt bike magazine, MXUK, on 14 April. This will be followed by a number of launches from the publisher’s large stable of computing titles: Internet Advisor, Windows Answers and Computer Publishing are all expected to launch in April/May.MXUK… Continue reading Magazine Launches For Future
Chronos Publishing, publisher of the two weekly gay magazines Pink Paper and Boyz, is to launch a new music and clubbing title called Fluid. The monthly, which launches on 22 April, will target the ‘burgeoning gay crowd’ involved in club dance nights.Fluid will be edited by the Evening Standard‘s Hot Tickets gay correspondent, David G.… Continue reading Gay Publishers Launch New Music And Clubbing Title
The Guardian is expected to announce a new look next week, including editorial changes and a different typeface. This would be the first redesign in over a decade for the national newspaper. The Daily Mail has appointed John Teal as advertisement director. He replaces Mike Ironside who became MD of the Mail On Sunday in… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Dialog Corporation, the online information company formed by the merger of MAID and Knight Ridder in 1997 (see Maid Acquisition To Go Ahead), is aiming to reduce its £155 million debt burden in order to invest in new internet-based products.Michael Mander, chairman of Dialog, admitted that revenues from Knight Ridder had taken longer to turn… Continue reading Dialog Focuses On Debt Reduction And New Net Products
Business magazine publisher, Reed Business Information, is to become the latest in a lengthening line of companies to offer free access to the internet. The new service, called Reed Connect, will target the readers of its business titles in four initial markets: property, science, agriculture and IT. RBI, a division of Reed Elsevier, will promote… Continue reading Reed Business To Offer Free Internet Access
Dialog Corporation’s first full-year financial results, which showed that the company has moved into profitability for the first time (see Dialog Focuses On Debt Reduction And New Net Products), pushed shares up by 9˝p to close at 94˝p yesterday.The Daily Mail continued to strengthen following the announcement of an internet tie-in with Dixons’ Freeserve (see… Continue reading Sharewatch
FilmFour, the subscription film channel launched by Channel 4 (see Film Four On Air), is planning a £2 million campaign to promote another free trial of the channel for cable and satellite viewers during Easter Weekend. The campaign, by Rapier and WWAV Rapp Collins will run on Channel 4, ONdigital, Sky TV and national press… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Channel 5 is continuing its jibes at ITV’s early evening news coverage with a campaign on perimeter boards at Chelsea’s away leg of the European Cup Winners’ Cup match against Valerenga. The boards at the game, which is to be screened on C5, will read: “ITV: You’re late and you know you are”, referring to… Continue reading Channel 5 Puts The Boot In To ITV News
Internet fever hit the Daily Mail & General Trust yesterday when its internet division, Associated New Media, announced a content deal with Dixons’ free service provider, Freeserve (see Freeserve And ANM Sign Web Content Deal). Shares rocketed following the news, closing 128źp up at 3,231źp.Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph report that the Monopolies and Mergers Commission has… Continue reading Sharewatch
