http://www.sky.co.ukIf there is one overriding factor in Sky’s commercial success since its broadcasting inception in 1989, it is probably the high quotient of sports coverage. With the extraordinary growth in the popularity of football, Sky is cashing in on this formula more than ever before. Fittingly, then, the Sky Online website adheres to the sports-heavy… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Sky Online
The move by Capital Radio to acquire Xfm (see today’s Capital To Buy Xfm) will be dependent on approval from both the Radio Authority and the Office of Fair Trading.Capital plans to buy 90.1% of the London alternative music station for £15.9 million, though under the 1996 Broadcasting Act a company cannot hold two licences… Continue reading Capital’s Xfm Move Dependent On Watchdogs
Reed Business Information (RBI) has this morning announced the acquisition of the controlled circulation computer titles of Dennis Publishing for an undisclosed sum.The group of titles is a six strong line-up of magazines including Microscope , The Var and Business & Technology. RBI publishes over 60 titles including Computer Weekly, Flight International, Estates Gazette and… Continue reading Reed Buys Dennis Computer Titles
The Times and Sunday Times websites have received an ABC //electronic audit which shows that during March they received combined impressions of 10.321 million. This is compared to just over 11 million last November (see Usage Grows At Times’ Websites).Individually, the Times site proved slightly more popular, with 5.2 million impressions, while the Sunday Times… Continue reading Usage Drops At Times Websites
Executives at ITV have said that they will not allow BSkyB to carry ITV’s channels on the digital satellite service scheduled to be launched by Sky in June.This represents a significant blow to the value of Sky’s digital service as users of it will have to switch out of the digital receiver equipment back to… Continue reading Sky’s Digital Service Will Go Without ITV Channels
Sky One’s Hot Summer Down Under series is to be sponsored by Castlemaine XXXX. The series begins on Sunday 3 May at 10:00pm and runs for eight weeks.…Paramount Comedy Channel’s Gayle’s World has secured a sponsorship deal with Diet Tango after the show’s star, Gayle Tuesday, apparently said she liked the drink. The association begins… Continue reading Sponsorship News
The ITC’s new website has been launched at http://www.itc.org.uk/. It is aimed at providing easy access to ITC material for licensees, the TV industry and the viewing public. It includes latest news from the Commission, a licensees database and on-line versions of the ITC’s codes.Watch out for a review of the site in a forthcoming… Continue reading ITC Launches New Website
Commercial radio continued to pull away from the BBC in terms of share of listening for RAJAR Q1 1998: all commercial achieved a share of 50.1% (up from 49.4% last year) while the BBC’s share stood at 47.7% (down from 48.4% last year). Overall, all national commercial stations had a listening share of 10.2% (up… Continue reading Commercial Radio Grows At BBC’s Expense
The local commercial radio stations have returned very mixed results for the first quarter of 1998 with some stations improving dramatically, others declining dramatically and a few remaining fairly stable. All Local Commercial radio showed a 0.2% drop in weekly reach and a 0.5% points increase in share of listening.The biggest success story in this… Continue reading Q1 RAJAR – Local Stations
Associated New Media’s Soccernet website achieved over 12 million page impressions in March according to the latest audit by ABC //electronic. The site, at http://www.soccernet.com/, recorded 12,617,704 page impressions for the audit period 1 March – 31 March 1998.Soccernet editor, Greg Hadfield, claims that this audit demonstrates that the site is one of the busiest… Continue reading Soccernet Audience Grows By 60% In 3 Months
