Telewest Communications has appointed Philip Jansen, Dunlop Slazenger’s group marketing director, to the same position at the cable company. Jansen, who has marketed products with Proctor & Gamble as well as Dunlop, will have overall responsibility for Telewest’s Group marketing and brand strategies.Telewest yesterday posted its year-end financial results and announced 90,000 new customers in… Continue reading Telewest Appoints Marketing Director
CE Digital, the digital radio alliance set up by Capital Radio and EMAP Radio at the end of last year (see Emap And Capital Join Forces To Bid For Digital Licences), was the sole bidder for the Birmingham area digital licence according to the Radio Authority (RA). The licence covers a broadcast area with an… Continue reading EMAP And Capital Bid For Birmingham Digital Radio Licence
The regional and local newspaper industry has all but halted its decline in sales according to the latest ABC figures and the Newspaper Society (NS). In the July-December 1998 audit period, 65% of all regional titles increased sales compared to 56% for the same period in 1997 and 45% the year before that.The figures show… Continue reading Regional Press Halts Sales Decline In Latest ABCs
UK companies are increasingly using the internet to conduct business, rather than merely as a communication tool, according to the UK Internet Survey 1999 by Fletcher Research. The survey has found that 41% of sites are now using the web to raise or save money online; this compares to 35% in 1998.Advertising is the dominant… Continue reading Business Usage Of The Net Is On The Increase
ITV today unveiled its first full schedule since the untimely demise of News at Ten. The £170 million schedule, which ITV is hoping will give it a significant lead over the BBC, is packed full of new factual programming, entertainment shows, comedies and drama and film premieres. Over the course of the new schedule there… Continue reading ITV Promotes Factual Programmes In Spring/Summer ’99 Schedule
Reed International continues to strengthen after Reed Elsevier’s trading statement released last week caused the share price to tumble (see Sharewatch). Reed closed yesterday up by 20źp at 546p.Telecoms companies Cable & Wireless and Telewest both held steady yesterday following a slip in shares caused by the surprise sale of 10% of C&W stock (see… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Mirror Group has today sold its old headquarters in Holborn, London to former publisher Lord Hamlyn, for £40 million. The Mirror Group is hoping to reduce its debt to in order to force any prospective new owners to increase their bids for the company.Mirror Group has received and rejected bids from both Trinity International… Continue reading Mirror Group Nets £40m For Former Holborn Headquarters
Cable telecommunications company, Telewest, this morning announced that it gained almost 90,000 new television, telephone and business subscriptions by the end of the fourth quarter of 1998. Of these new customers, 51,000 subscribed to the company’s cable television service which, although still analogue, is competing directly with the new offerings being heavily promoted by Sky… Continue reading New Customers Lift Telewest
According to a report in this morning’s Independent, News International has decided to ditch plans to launch a free daily newspaper for London. Much speculation has recently centred around the company’s plans to reincarnate the Today newspaper in order to combat Associated Newspaper’s just-launched London Metro, which is given away each morning on the capital’s… Continue reading News International May Drop London Freesheet Plans
Magazine publisher Highbury House Communications has created a joint venture with Internet Advertising in order to publish magazines on the Net. The company says that it has acquired the rights to use certain ‘high-profile’ internet domain names including www.fishing.co.uk, www.gardening.co.uk and www.shooting.co.uk.Highbury has acquired Internet Advertising, which produces internet publishing software and website management services,… Continue reading Highbury House Creates Internet Venture
