Premiership football club Newcastle United says it has received a takeover approach worth up to £157.6 million. The club, which has not named the possible bidder, said a “preliminary approach” had been made at no more than 110p a share.However, no formal offer will be lodged until monopoly regulators have reported on BSkyB’s controversial bid… Continue reading Takeover Bid For Newcastle United
Regional newspaper publisher, Adscene, has sold Flair Press, which comprises the substantial part of the Commercial Printing Division, to Spectrum Press for approximately £1.3 million. Adscene describes Flair’s operations as non-core and a drain on the Group’s management resources.Adscene says that its publishing operation is showing improvement on the previous year and that advertising is… Continue reading Adscene Disposes Of Non-Core Assets
BSkyB announced a deal with Wilcon Homes today that will give Sky guaranteed access to 5,000 more homes. During 1999, the house-building company will build homes which come complete with a SkyDigital minidish.The deal makes Wilcon the first developer to make a policy decision to install SkyDigital capability in all of its houses. Sky, however,… Continue reading BSkyB To Be Built In To Homes
Quality MarketTotal broadsheet circulation fell year on year by 3.5%, resulting in a total circulation of 5,633,201 for the June-November period. The Financial Times was the only title to show a substantial rise in circulation, showing a growth of 11.5% to 363,525. The Sunday Times has the highest circulation of all the quality newspapers, currently… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Round-Up – November 1998
Inflation has hit the Government’s target rate for the fourth month in succession, according to official figures. The Office for National Statistics put underlying inflation for November unchanged at 2.5%.The headline rate of inflation, which includes mortgage interest payments, continued to fall, dropping from 3.1% year-on-year to 3.0%.Subscribers can access RPI trends by selecting “Encyclomedia”… Continue reading Inflation On Target Again
Publishing giant, EMAP, is making a bid to move into the US publishing market in a deal that could see the company become the largest magazine publisher in the world. EMAP has made a £720 million bid for The Petersen Companies, the US special interest publisher which produces Guns & Ammo and Teen. Teen, a… Continue reading EMAP Makes £720m US Move
IPC Magazines is launching a £9 million marketing drive for its women’s weeklies magazines, what it calls “the lifeblood of the magazine industry”. In alliance with IPC’s newstrade distributor, MarketForce, a series of roadshows has been organised, along with national TV campaigns for five of the six IPC women’s weekly titles.IPC’s big sellers in this… Continue reading IPC Launches £9m Women’s Weeklies Drive
London Electricity has signed a deal to sponsor LWT’s local weather service. The deal, which starts this week, will be the first time that London Electricity has moved into the television market.Granada Media: 0171 396 6161
According to weekend press reports, ITV is still undecided about the structure of its weekly 60-minute news programme. It is thought that the problem centres around the format and content of the new show.Granada television, the winner of the news contract, is said to be in disagreement with the ITV network centre about whether the… Continue reading ITV Companies Undecided About News Programme
Panasonic is to again sponsor ITV’s Christmas schedule, following the success of last year’s campaign. The £1/2 million deal will cover 35 hours of programming and will run from 21 December till 28 December. ITV has found a sponsor for its Saturday morning entertainment programme SMTV:Live. Nesquik will start a sponsorship tie-in with the programme… Continue reading Newsline Brief
