Nascent terrestrial broadcaster, Channel 5, has secured a sports coup by winning the rights to three of England’s qualifying games for the Euro 2000 finals. The games, which are all away, will come from Poland, Bulgaria and Luxembourg.The channel also has the rights to broadcast Scotland’s matches in the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Estonia and… Continue reading C5 Shoots And Scores For Euro 2000
http://www.club18-30.co.ukI cannot deny that from a Club 18-30 website I expected plenty of oiled bodies, burgeoning cleavage and loads of wanton nymphs. What you actually get, however, is loads whizzing, full-motion graphics and lots of clever special effects. In fact so many moving words and flashing colours that one could be forgiven for saying, too… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Club 18-30
Reed Elsevier has put together a £200 million recompense plan for advertisers who fell foul of the irregularities in the Reed Travel Group’s circulation claims.Detailed recompense programmes have been developed following an assessment involving independent accountants, legal experts and circulation auditors of the extent of the misstatements over the period 1991 to 1997, which came… Continue reading Reed Announce Travel Group Update
Total terrestrial TV revenue for December (excluding GMTV) reached £172.3 million, according to agency estimates. ITV brought in £126.3m, C4 came in at £38m, while C5 earned £8m. GMTV’s revenue was up 3.3% to £5.68m.As far as the ITV franchises were concerned, Carlton performed well with a year on year increase in its revenue share… Continue reading TV Revenue – December
The Billett Consultancy has launched a tracking service for advertisers which claims to provide greater accuracy in measuring marketing effectiveness. The service, which is called Billetts Sales, Media Tracking (BSMT), is designed to enable advertisers to understand, track and exploit the relationship between business performance, advertising and ‘the rest of the marketing mix’.Billetts claims that… Continue reading Billetts Launch New Service For Advertisers
This Sunday, and for the next three weeks, the Observer will be attaching a free postcard city guide to its Life magazine. One side of the postcard will have a map of the city, with highlights of the best of the city’s bars, sights, shops and restaurants on the reverse. Accompanying the postcards will be… Continue reading Observer Runs Free City Guides
Rumours are currently abound that Pearson New Entertainment is planning to sell off its Future Publishing division. Although Pearson has so far said nothing, a number of speculative reports claim that the company has been in discussion with potential buyers.The position of Future Publishing in the marketplace may provide a clue as to just who… Continue reading Possibilities For Future
Advertising agency Manning Gottlieb Media (MGM) has closed the MGM Brann agency which was a spin-off association with the direct marketing agency, Brann Direct. MGM Brann was set up in December 1996 in an attempt to utilise each of the company’s particular skills and expertise.The business finished trading last December after a decision to close… Continue reading MGM Ends Brann Partnership
DMG Radio has received clearance from the Radio Authority to take over Essex Radio for £20.9 million.DMG previously held a 27% stake in Essex Radio and last September announced that it wished to increase its interest to 41%. Under the City Code a share of this size requires the stake holder to make a formal… Continue reading DMG Overcomes Regulatory Hurdle To Take Over Essex Radio
BSkyB is in danger of losing its powerful position in the pay-TV market when digital television launches later this year, according to a report by broker JP Morgan.Despite the fact that a 20% growth in subscriber revenue is predicted over the next eight years (from £3.6 billion to £16 billion), JP Morgan believes that the… Continue reading BSkyB Could Face Tough Ride In Digital TV Age
