The election campaigning is beginning in earnest this week. Newsline is covering the leaders broadcast debate controversy and will be reporting on the story as it unfolds. ITN announces its election schedule on Tuesday, Newsline will run a full report. Lookout for the web review special, Newsline will be looking at all the main General… Continue reading The Week Ahead
AMRA Ltd has appointed two new staff to work in its display and classified divisions and to support its drive for increased advertising revenue for the regional press. Ian Page, currently a recruitment agency executive with The Daily Telegraph, joins the company on April 1 as its classified manager. Matthew Swift, previously advertisement manager at… Continue reading AMRA Expands
It was a good week for Abbott Mead Vickers. The advertising group put on 25.5p to reach 771.5p on Thursday after it announced strong profit and revenue growth for 1996. So far AMV’s shares have put in a good performance this year, bolstered by winning Campaign‘s Agency of the Year awards in January and topping… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 21/03/97
Revenue According to agency estimates, total TV revenue for February reached £159.81m, up 4% on the previous year. Of this, ITV came in at £121.81m, up 3.46%, and Channel 4 brought in £38m, up almost 6% year on year. This puts the ITV/C4 ratio at 76:24.Carlton boosted its revenue by almost 2% points year on… Continue reading TV Round-Up – February
MTV is going to broadcast its first ever travel programme, MTV’s World Tour on 14 April 1997. Debuting with six, half-hour episodes this globetrotting weekly series aims to reinvent the classic travel show format, with each episode designed to reflect the genuine and uncensored travel experiences and aspirations of young people.This is the first programme… Continue reading Go On Tour With MTV
Cable & Wireless Communications plc has announced the formal terms of the Offers to be made for Bell Cablemedia plc and NYNEX CableComms. The terms of the Offers are as follows:Each BCM ordinary share will be equivalent to 0.69389 CWC ordinary shares.Each NYNEX CableComms UK ordinary share will be equivalent to 0.330714 CWC shares.The Offers… Continue reading C&W Formalise Deal
Mohammed Al-Fayed has threatened to shut-down Liberty Radio, the London station he launched last November *963 Liberty Radio Launch Date Announced. A report in The Sunday Times claims that the Harrod’s chairman has told the Radio Authority that he will take drastic action unless it permits him to use more powerful transmitters or a more… Continue reading The End Of The Line For Liberty
Ulster TV reported financial results for the year ended December 31 1996, which showed that pre-tax profits reached £9m (up from £8.2m last year) on the back of turnover up from £34.2m to £34.5m.Ad revenue however only increased by 2.4% to £33.2m, compared with television operating profit which increased 9.4% to £7m. UTV said that… Continue reading UTV Disappointed With Ad Revenue
WPP Group has introduced a stock option programme for all its people around the world with the first grants being made this month. WPP plans to make annual grants of fair market value stock options to all full-time people in the Group with two years service who work in wholly-owned operating companies. This will enable… Continue reading WPP Announces Share Option
A report, commissioned by the Radio Advertising Bureau, has found that the top twenty agencies more than doubled their radio expenditure over the last four years and that radio billings now outstrip revenue growth.For the fourth consecutive year commercial radio’s share of advertising revenue has risen. In 1993 commercial radio revenue stood at £178 million… Continue reading Radio Billings Outstrip Revenue
