Revenue Total terrestrial TV revenue came in at £184.44 million in January, according to agency estimates. Of this ITV earned £130.21m (up 1.6% year on year), C4 earned £39.55m (up 2.7%) and GMTV brought in £4.8m (down 13.5%). C5’s revenue appears pretty static with a figure of £9.8m.January ITV Franchise Revenue Share Comparisons Jan-97… Continue reading TV Round-Up – January
The BBC has reversed a previous prediction that it would face a large fall in its audience share in the face of increased competition from non-terrestrial TV.Patricia Hodgson, BBC policy and planning director, speaking at a Financial Times conference on new media and broadcasting, said the Corporation expected to maintain a 40% share of viewing… Continue reading BBC Confident Of Future Viewing Share
Commercial radio in the UK appears to be set for an advertising boom in 1998. According to the Radio Advertising Bureau, which conducted a survey of 307 advertisers and marketing directors, 63 per cent plan to increase their spending on radio advertising. Commercial radio advertising revenue reached £100 million for the last quarter of 1997,… Continue reading UK: Radio Spend To Increase
Nkosazana Zuma, health minister, has said that the government is considering introducing legislation to ban smoking in public places and places of work, and also to ban tobacco advertising, sponsorship and promotions.
Venture capital group Candover is rumoured to be the favourite bidder for United News & Media’s northern titles, which have been up for sale since December (subscribers see UPN Titles Up For Sale – Again). According to reports in the weekend broadsheets a deal for the titles, which include the Yorkshire Post , is set… Continue reading Candover Favourites To Buy Northern UNM Titles
“Healthy” advertising growth of 5.3% is expected at the Mirror Group in 1998, according to a report published by Merrill Lynch.The firm has also put an Accumulate rating on the media group’s shares, due to its current low value and projected solid earnings growth of 7.5% per annum to the year 2000. However, Merrill Lynch… Continue reading Good Ad Growth Expected At Mirror
The ITC has today published the revised Channel 4 licence which extends and clarifies the channel’s remit and its public service commitments.Many of the changes arise from the decision by the Government to phase out the C4 Funding Formula (subscribers see C4 Funding Formula To End) which allows increased resources to be deployed in programming… Continue reading ITC Revises C4 Licence
The Modern Review has allegedly been put up for sale by its shareholders. According to a report in the Sunday Business private investors are in discussion with a number of publishing companies who are interested in the magazine, which was relaunched in September last year (subscribers see Relaunch First Issue Review – Modern Review).Those involved… Continue reading Modern Review “Up For Sale”
“Local marketing is set to grow”, according to a report from the Henley Centre.‘The Future of Local Marketing’ highlights two key issues: the way in which growing levels of convenience when shopping for goods and services are reflected by shrinking catchment areas, which results in improved efficiency of cover for local media, and marketers should… Continue reading ‘Local Marketing Set To Grow’ Predicts Henley Centre
British Digital Broadcasting, the UK consortium which will be launching digital terrestrial television in the Autumn, has chosen SECA to provide the set-top box encoder which will allow viewers access to its channels.This is a blow to Rupert Murdoch who hoped BDB would choose the News Datacom system, which is owned by his News Corporation… Continue reading BDB Snubs Murdoch In Decoder Choice
