According to estimates for February, Total ITV net revenue has come in at £123,896,000. The figure represents a continuation of the recent downward trend, falling 2.8% on last month, but is an increase of 3.8% on the same period last year. ITV’s share accounts for £103,521,000 of the total, leaving Channel 4 with a revenue… Continue reading TV Round-Up – February
Pre-tax losses for the HTV Group for the year ending December 31 1992 are as follows:Pre-tax Loss: £5.83m (+£0.44m)Loss per share: 2.7p (-0.5p)Turnover: £133.03m (£171.7m)Final dividend: 0pTotal dividend: 0p (3.75p)Extraordinary Debit: £17.55m (£21.82m)Operating Profit (TV only): £6.08m
Sky Sports, Sky One and Sky News may screen three Premier League games simultaneously on May 9 if the current championship race goes to the last week. The League has agreed the transmission arrangements but BSkyB has yet to finalise a kick-off time for the matches.The triple bill would include Middlesbrough v Norwich, QPR v… Continue reading Sky Splits League Final In Three
MTV Europe has struck up a deal with Omegaland Racing to be title sponsor of a Formula 3000 racing team, due to take part in nine races throughout five different European countries. The contract will enable MTV to display its ‘racing’ logo in a prominent position on the two cars entered and on the team-wear.
The BBC and US television venture, ABC, have struck up a partnership which will enable them to create one of the largest international news gathering services in the world. The two companies plan to exchange news coverage and to share broadcasting facilities, while also making ABC news available to BBC World Service Television. The partnership… Continue reading BBC & ABC In Joint News Venture
According to estimates for February, Total ITV net revenue has come in at £123,896,000. The figure represents a continuation of the recent downward trend, falling 2.8% on last month, but is an increase of 3.8% on the same period last year. ITV’s share accounts for £103,521,000 of the total, leaving Channel 4 with a revenue… Continue reading TV Round-Up – February
Sky Sports, Sky One and Sky News may screen three Premier League games simultaneously on May 9 if the current championship race goes to the last week. The League has agreed the transmission arrangements but BSkyB has yet to finalise a kick-off time for the matches.The triple bill would include Middlesbrough v Norwich, QPR v… Continue reading Sky Splits League Final In Three
MTV Europe has struck up a deal with Omegaland Racing to be title sponsor of a Formula 3000 racing team, due to take part in nine races throughout five different European countries. The contract will enable MTV to display its ‘racing’ logo in a prominent position on the two cars entered and on the team-wear.
Pre-tax profits for United Newspapers soared to £109.9m from £48.8m for the year to December 31 1992. Turnover rose to £831.5m and earnings per share also saw growth, increasing from 10.9p to 40.1p. Final dividends stand at 14p bringing the total to 21.5p.The publishing group recently acquired titles from Northern & Shell including Rock CD… Continue reading United Newspapers Profits Soar
… Peter Overy, previously research manager at J Walter Thompson, is joining BJM Research in April as an associate director, working principally with their advertising tracking department…… Belinda Beeftink is joining Telmar as client services director. She was previously in the research departments at DMB&B and Media & Airtime Sales……Leagas Shafron Davis Chick and Ayer… Continue reading Industry Snippets
