Pearson, which announced in December that 2001 profits at the FT Group could fall by as much as 40% on 2000 (see Pearson Warns On Profits), saw shares rise 2.84% yesterday to finish at £8.13, an increase of 22˝p on Monday’s closing price.BSkyB, which was recently awarded the contract to produce the successor to Channel… Continue reading Sharewatch
The BBC’s Top Of The Pops went interactive for the first time on Christmas Day drawing an audience of 4.7 million and achieving a 46% share of viewing.The festive special, which was shown at 2pm on Christmas day, featured a series of interactive services allowing TOTP‘s digital viewers to sing along with their favourite hits,… Continue reading Interactive Top Of The Pops Is A Hit
GWR ended 2001 in positive fashion, seeing a rise of 17½p or just under 7.5% during the last day’s trading of the year. Pearson was also on the up, ending at £7.91, up 13p on Friday’s closing price.Emap closed the year on a less positive note, closing at £7.30, 18½p down on the previous day.The… Continue reading Sharewatch
Recruitment advertising revenue represented 26.1% of the £1.8bn spent on classified ads in the regional press during 2000 (Advertising Association Yearbook). With over 50% of UK residents now in the online habit (Office of National Statistics), increasing numbers of online recruitment sites are poised to claim a cut of this revenue.Several of the UK’s web… Continue reading Feature: Recruitment Websites
For the first time in over 40 years the BBC is claiming victory over ITV in the annual ratings war with figures for 2001 showing that across all hours more people watched BBC1 than ITV1.Early figures from BARB show that during 2001 BBC1 had an overall audience share of 26.8% compared with 26.7% for ITV1.… Continue reading BBC Claims Ratings Victory Over ITV
Terry Mansfield, managing director of the National Magazine Company (Natmags) has been included in the New Years’ Honours list. He will receive a CBE for services to the publishing industry.Mansfield has been MD at Natmags since 1982, having begun his career in advertising management in 1961 at Condé Nast. He joined Natmags in 1969 and… Continue reading Natmags MD In Line For CBE
The year began with good news for the cinema industry. Research from CIA showed that, while the medium remains one of the smallest in terms of share of UK advertising revenue, the amount of money spent by advertisers on the silver screen had continued to rise steadily over the decade. The biggest revenue source was… Continue reading End Of Year News Round-Up: Cinema
” ‘How did you go bankrupt?’ Bill asked. ‘Two ways,’ Mike said. ‘Gradually and then suddenly.’ “ Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926.And so it was in 2001 that we inched towards recession month by month until the events of 11th September. Media giants who had previously boasted that their size and diversity of… Continue reading The Media Financial Year In Review
The NewsLine team and all of us at MediaTel Group would like to wish our readers a very happy Christmas and peace and prosperity in 2002.NewsLine will be taking a break over the holiday period, but will return on 2 January with the latest media news and comment. Early in the New Year we will… Continue reading Merry Christmas From All At NewsLine
Every year has its winners and losers, its new faces and its has-beens. Below are just a few of the fresh contenders and the spent forces from 2001: Hello! InStyle Glamour Wellbeing TV Femail.co.uk Home & Away …again Spruce ITV Digital Your Life ITV on Sky Digital Crossroads…again Richard & Judy on Channel 4 The… Continue reading Hello! Goodbye!
