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
The Department of Trade and Industry is set to announce measures which will effectively curb BSkyB gaining a monopoly in the UK digital television market.The regulations would ensure that manufacturers of set-top boxes, the hardware which will allow TVs to receive digital broadcasts, would have access to and share the relevant technology. If a manufacturer,… Continue reading DTI May Act Over Set-Top Boxes
The Food Advertising Unit is holding its first Annual Conference entitled “Food and Drink Advertising to Children: Developing Public Policy” on November 7th at the Old Town Hall in Stratford.Speakers in attendance include George Bull, chairman of Grand Metropolitan plc and president of the AA, and Uisdean Maclean the head of Advertising Clearance at the… Continue reading Conference News
The men’s monthly magazine sector is now firmly established in the market with titles now reflecting various different target audiences, and most still showing good growth. With Arena, Face, I-D, and FHM all now celebrating at least ten years of publication more recent competition from Loaded, Maxim and Eat Soup has brought notice from both… Continue reading Men’s Magazine Market Round-Up
Bringing its recent investment in new media to $10m, WPP Group has entered into a corporate partnership with Media Technology Ventures (MTV) – a US investment company specialising in information and entertainment technology start-ups. Other investors in MTV include Motorola Multimedia Group (broadband communications and cable modems provider), STET (telecommunications holding company), Justsystems Inc (applications… Continue reading WPP Partners Interactive Investment Company
According to the latest CIA MediaLab survey, Good Housekeeping is the brand that adults would most like to see being turned into a TV show. This comes as the ITC is considering relaxing its rules on “masthead programming”: at the moment a TV show can be turned into a magazine but a magazine cannot be… Continue reading Support Shown For Good Housekeeping TV Show
September’s cinema admissions show a 22.4% decrease year-on-year, averaging 1.85 million per week. This brings the third quarter average to 2.62 million per week, a 1% increase on last year. The monthly total for September was 7.925 million.Top grossing film of the month was once again Independence Day, taking £7.7m, followed by a relatively strong… Continue reading September Cinema Admissions Fall
Southern Newspapers has this afternoon announced a major review of its operating regions, structures and costs which effectively means its Bournemouth-based Central and Southampton-based Eastern publishing regions will merge.Titles in the new Southern region include the Southern Daily Echo, the Evening Echo Bournemouth, the Southampton Advertiser Series and the Dorset Advertiser Series. The review also… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Merges Regions
Media group EMAP has announced that it will be buying The Box, the cable TV music channel, for £8.3m.The Box is an interactive music channel playing videos selected by cable audiences from a specified playlist. It is available to over 90% of the UK’s 1.5 million cable homes where it has a weekly reach of… Continue reading EMAP Buys Into Youth Market
