Talk Radio has suffered a further loss of staff since being bought by Kelvin MacKenzie’s TalkCo, as senior sales executive Rachel McHugh leaves to join GWR sales operation, Opus.McHugh joins Opus on 30 November as Classic FM sales executive working under Classic FM group head of sales, Gerry Boniface, who says: “Rachel is an extremely… Continue reading Talk Loses Sales Executive To Classic
Border TV and Chrysalis Radio have set up a joint venture to bid for regional digital radio licences, it has been announced. Together, the groups will apply for the London and key regional digital licences due to be advertised by the Radio Authority over the next few months. Late last week, the two groups announced… Continue reading Chrysalis And Border Create Digital Radio Venture
Agency estimates for October 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue (including GMTV’s) at £277.28 million. Year on year ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 all show increases in their ad revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s Adults impacts dropped year on year for October, by 5.4% to 26,387; all categories bar Housewives/Children… Continue reading TV Round-Up – October 1998
Med TV, the satellite channel for Kurdish viewers in Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, has been warned by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) that it may have its licence revoked for failure to comply with the Commission Programme Code.The TV watchdog says that the channel has broadcast programmes which are an incitement to crime… Continue reading Satellite Channel Licence May Be Revoked
Revenue Agency estimates for October 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue (including GMTV’s) at ďż˝277.28 million. Year on year ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 all show increases in their ad revenue and GMTV continues to lose advertising income.ITV’s total revenue was up by 6.3% to an estimated ďż˝192.7 million, C4’s rose by 14.2%… Continue reading TV Round-Up – October 1998
Global media services agency, Zenith Media, has released the first edition of its Top UK Media Owners research. Like the company’s Top 50 European Media Owners it has an essay on each owner complete with financial data about the company.Owners are ranked by media-related revenue which makes United News & Media top of the pile… Continue reading UNM Comes Top Of Zenith Media Owners List
News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch has announced the formation of a new company to investigate and manage media investments in continental Europe.News Corp Europe will be based in Milan and chaired by Mrs Letizia Moratti, the former chairman of Italian state broadcaster RAI.Mr Murdoch also announced that News Corp Europe, along with French TV company… Continue reading Murdoch In New Europe Media Move
It is believed that two significant players in the internet industry, America Online (AOL) and Netscape, are on the verge of merging. AOL will reportedly spend around two and half billion pounds to acquire the web browser company.If the deal goes ahead, it would be a significant boost for Netscape as its browser software is… Continue reading Netscape And AOL May Merge
A new web audit by ABC //electronic has confirmed that BBC Online (http://www.bbc.co.uk/) is still the UK’s most-visited site. During October the website recorded 46,779,865 page impressions, the majority of which were accessing the Corporation’s news pages.Head of BBC Online, Mark Frost, said: “These figures demonstrate the enormous demand for a public service BBC Online… Continue reading BBC Online Still Busiest UK Website
Monday Regional newspaper publisher, Southnews, releases interim financial results today.A TV Round-Up for October will be available on Newsline shortly.Wednesday Leisure and television group, Granada, releases its finals. Granada still holds a 4.28% stake in BSkyB which it is expected to dispose of sometime soon as the two groups are strong rivals in the digital… Continue reading The Week Ahead
