‘Tis the season to be jolly and so ITV reveals its Christmas presents and turkeys (and there are quite a few of the latter and not so many of the former). ITV unveiled its Christmas and Winter 99 programme schedules at a packed Fashion Café in the heart of London’s West End. A nice surprise… Continue reading ITV Christmas/Winter Schedule 1998-99
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
The cost of Southnews’ aborted takeover of Home Counties Newspapers (HCN) (see Southnews Launches £59m Home Counties Bid) was £500,000 the group has announced in its first half financial results today. Southnews’ bid for Home Counties was toppled at the last minute by Eastern Counties Newspapers with bough HCN for £58.3 million (see Home Counties… Continue reading Profits Up At Southnews
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
Associated New Media (ANM), the online arm of Associated News & Media, is to launch a personal finance website, www.thisismoney.co.uk/, early in the new year. This follows in its This Is… series of sites which have been developed across the country.The website is to target the same middle market of consumers as the group’s Daily… Continue reading Associated New Media Launches Personal Finance Website
The South African Health Minister has presented a bill to the Parliament’s health committee proposing a ban on all forms of tobacco advertising and sponsorship, plus a ban on smoking in any public area including the workplace. Enforcement measures have not yet been defined.
