The Financial Times has put its weight behind the Labour Party; the paper will be backing Blair from tomorrow. By endorsing Labour, the paper follows the example set by The News of the World, The Sun and The Independent on Sunday.The Mail and The Telegraph remain true blue, while The Times is said to be… Continue reading The Pink Paper Turns Red
Dealing in Cable & Wireless Communications began today. The share price opened at 299p in London.CWC, an amalgamation of Cable & Wireless’s Mercury subsidiary, Bell Cablemedia, Nynex and Videotron, represents the biggest threat yet to BT’s hold on the domestic telecommunications market.The new company is Britain’s second largest telephone company. C&W will hold a 52%… Continue reading Cable & Wireless Open At 299p
The Scottish ITV broadcaster Grampian has this afternoon announced financial results for the year ended 28 February which show pre-tax profits of £11.82 million, up 24% from last year. The figure received a considerable boost however from the sale of Scot FM to the Independent Radio Group for £4.66m. Turnover was up slightly at £23.558m,… Continue reading Record Results For Grampian
The release date for March national newspaper NRS figures has been put back from April 22nd to April 28th. The delay is due to the continuing testing of the new supplements survey, and all subsequent NRS release dates are subject to revision. The new release dates will be publicised when the March NRS figures are… Continue reading NRS Release Date Put Back
http://www.ft.comThe FT’s site is a year old this week, but it doesn’t stand still, new sections and features are continually being added. Like the newspaper, the site doesn’t muck about, there are no abstract clickable links. Every aspect of the site is laid out in a clear and simple way which makes it easy to… Continue reading Web Site Of The Week – FT Com
Broadcast is reporting that United News & Media is poised to buy into S4C’s Digital Networks, the Welsh channel’s digital terrestrial TV bid. However, Newsline sources reveal that UN&M has no immediate plans to invest in SDN, although it is not something to be ruled out altogether.Channel 5 has a guaranteed slot on multiplex A,… Continue reading United In Talks With S4C
Flextech Television’s new media development division, Flextech New Media, has won the Best Software Design category at this week’s Cable and Satellite Industry Awards.FNM entered the prototype of Time Machine, its Internet programme Guide and video-on-demand system. The system allows users to find what they want to watch in a multi-channel environment and watch video… Continue reading Flextech Wins Award
Impact Planning (UK) has created a method whereby media planners can create their schedules for TV commercials over the Internet.The Media Optimiser programme is coded with a specific commercial’s response function and requires either that the Impact and Retention response rates have been derived for the specific commercial via an Impact Adtrack study or any… Continue reading Media Planning Possible Over The Web
MTV has signed three sponsorship deals worth over £2.5 million. The MTV Movie Awards are being sponsored by Pentax in a £500,000 deal. Durex is paying over £1 million to supportMTV Live, a new live music show. While, Suzuki and Fila are jointly-sponsoring MTV’s Top 100 Countdown Weekends in a deal worth over £500,000.MTV: 0171… Continue reading MTV Sponsorship Deals Worth Millions
BPA, the media auditing company, will be releasing an audited figure for the number of visitors to EMAP’s EMAP.com Internet site. A spokesman for BPA told Newsline that the audit was being printed at the moment and would probably be released on Monday. An audit for the Capital Radio website is also near to completion.BPA:… Continue reading EMAP Site Set For Audit
