The television sector saw large increases last week in anticipation of the more relaxed cross-media ownership rules which became law on Friday (see Friday’s New Media Ownership Rules Become Law).Grampian TV saw a big rise on Monday, leaping 22p to a record high of 292p, on the back of speculation that STV would make a… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 1/11/96
The £35bn merger between BT and MCI at the weekend will place the UK telecommunications giant in close proximity to BSkyB, raising fears among UK watchdogs.The alliance will occur because MCI, the US telecoms operator, owns a 13.5% stake in Rupert Murdoch’s global media company News Corporation. Oftel however, the telecoms watchdog, only recently censured… Continue reading BT Merger Creates Murdoch Alliance
ITV will today announce its Winter schedule and a full report will appear on Newsline as soon as possible. It is also expected today that a buyer for United Provincial Newspapers, the regional press arm of United News & Media, will be announced though United were unable to confirm this.TeleWest will today announce interim results.… Continue reading The Week Ahead
TDI Advertising has become the first sales house to launch coverage and frequency services accessible via the Internet. The new databases offer advertisers the chance of accessing all coverage and frequency data relating to London Underground and London Bus advertising in an interactive accessible format. Users can select the audience, site type and campaign duration… Continue reading TDI Launches New Internet Planning Services
The liberalisation of cross-media ownership rules became law today, effectively meaning that the key industry players will have more freedom to realise their expansion ambitions.The key plank of the new Schedule to the Broadcasting Act 1996 is that numerical limits on the holding of radio and television licences has been abolished to be replaced by… Continue reading New Media Ownership Rules Become Law
According to the latest Establishment Survey many more ITV Households have 3+ sets in their homes compared to last year – just over 4.5m, up 14.82%. Most homes now have 2+ sets (13,445,000). Following in the same vein ownership of 2+ videos has shown the largest increase amongst all equipment – up 15.20% to nearly… Continue reading More TVs, More Videos – Establishment Survey June 96
The cover-price of the Independent ‘s Saturday edition is increasing tomorrow by 10p to 60p. The latest ABC figure for the paper showed its decline is continuing: in September it fell by 9.19% to 266,426 copies.Subscribers can see all the latest ABC and NRS figures in Newsline’s Features section
As reported on Tuesday’s *WBTV Launch May Be Delayed, WBTV, the new Warner Brothers satellite channel, will not launch today.In a sparse joint statement with BSkyB, who is supposed to be carrying the channel, Warner says that it is having “difficulties” with the launch but will look to solve these in the near future. WBTV… Continue reading WBTV Launch Delayed
Ahead of today’s shareholder’s annual meeting BSkyB has announced three month figures to the end of September which show profit rising 31% to £66 million. Turnover also showed good growth, rising 24% to £266m.Subscribers to the company’s satellite service increased slightly, up 2.6% to 5.65 million. The strong figures gave BSkyB a much-needed boost on… Continue reading BSkyB Profits Rise 31%
Chrysalis Radio Sales has promoted two of its sales group heads to local sales managers. Tara Norveil and Andrew McCutcheon will now head the team selling airtime for Heart 106.2 in London.…In another radio move Radio Trent has recruited Steve Mayall to the position of sales manager. He was previously sales controller at Invicta.…Julian Downing,… Continue reading Sales Appointments Announced
