Following VNU’s mag.net website audit last month (Newsline 9/4/97), Microsoft (MSN-UK) have registered with ABC //electronic to receive an audit and certification.MSN-UK’s advertising sales manager, Tom Bowman, said of the move; “We are pleased to be working with ABC //electronic to create honesty in the UK Internet market. Auditing to openly agreed criteria will help… Continue reading Microsoft Ask For Web Audit
Results for the nine months ending 31/03/97 show BSkyB with pre tax profits up 21% to £215 million – an increase of £38 million. Turnover now stands at £913 million, up 24% on the same period last year – 84% of this total coming from subscription revenues, with advertising now contributing 11%.Total paying subscribers were… Continue reading BSkyB Profits Up 21%
A new system of addresses for the Internet has been given the go ahead by a group of international representatives meeting in Geneva. The agreement means that the current single US company that can register Internet addresses will be replaced by an unlimited number of companies from across the globe. The number of names that… Continue reading Web Round Up – W/E 9/5/97
BSkyB has today announced the creation of British Interactive Broadcasting Ltd (BIB) in a bid to push towards an early launch of digital satellite television. The venture owned by BSkyB (32.5%), BT (32.5%), Midland Bank (20%) and Matsuchita (15%) will finance the production of a million set top boxes with full capability to run interactive… Continue reading BSkyB Launches Digital Services Company
Investment Week carried off awards for editorial and publishing excellence at the PPA Magazines 97 Awards held last night. Picking up ‘Business & Professional Magazine of the Year’ and ‘USM Publisher of the Year’ (for companies with less than 25 employees) for Tim Weller, the title’s publisher.Other winners included:FHM (EMAP Metro) – COMAG Consumer Magazine… Continue reading PPA Magazines 97 Awards
According to Buckingham Palace the Queen’s internet site has received 12.5 million hits since its launch on March 6th, with more than a million accesses made in the first 24 hours. Yesterday saw the site extended by 85 pages, holding further profiles, royal history and speeches. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the most frequent visitors are Americans!The official… Continue reading Royal Internet Site – Gets Public Approval
As the weather begins to turn for the better, so do our soap writers attempt more and more little twists to keep their audiences glued to the screen. Still, with an audience figure of 17.40 million for Monday’s Coronation Street being the high of the week, and the rest of the soaps chasing, it looks… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 27/04/97
NYNEX CableComms Group PLC today released its unaudited operating statistics and financial results for the quarter ended 31 March 1997.Total revenue increased by 43% to £46.5 million for the quarter, with residential telephony revenue increasing 43% to £21.2 million, cable television revenue increasing 34% to £19.1 million and business telephony increasing a massive 92% to… Continue reading NYNEX Results Show Continued Growth
Revenue Agency estimates put terrestrial TV revenue for March at £192.070m, which is an increase of 5.83% on the previous year. Of this, ITV brought in £148.070m (up 10.05%) and Channel 4 £44m (up 11.39%). This puts the ITV:C4 ratio at 77:23. GMTV’s revenue was put at £6.4m, up 6.3%, and total cable/satellite reached £17m.Among… Continue reading TV Round-Up – March
The board of Cordiant has announced the appointment of Kevin Roberts as chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Worldwide.Roberts, 47, will take over from Ed Wax on 21 May. Mr Wax will relinquish his position as chief executive but will remain as chairman until the end of the year. From January 1998 he will… Continue reading New Chief Executive For Saatchi
