Stadium Radio has signed a five year deal with Clear Channel Radio Sales to sell advertising on the group’s stadium based soccer radio stations.Rebecca Merchant has been appointed sales manager to handle Clear Channel’s access to the 70 clubs included in the Stadium Radio portfolio.Stadium Radio was established in 1998, and broadcasts to football fans… Continue reading Stadium Radio Signs Clear Channel
OXM, a subsidiary of Future Network, is to release an advanced edition of its Official UK Xbox Magazine to tie in with the launch of Microsoft’s game console.The preview magazine will come in a flip-top hard card carton and include a glossy brochure-style magazine and a 30 minute video showing clips of games which are… Continue reading Future Promotes Xbox Launch
Scot FM Sale Boosts Wireless GroupThe £25.5 million sale of Scot FM to the Guardian Media Group (GMG) in June (see Wireless Group Sells Scot FM For £25.5m) has helped push Wireless Group into profit for the six months ended 30 June 2001. The £22.5 million profit from the disposal nudged pre-tax profit up to… Continue reading Scot FM Sale Boosts Wireless Group
Adshel is launching a research service for the outdoor industry to assess the effectiveness of poster advertising.The service, which launches in October, will be available to advertisers using the Adshel Research Monitor and aims to show whether outdoor campaigns should be “acclaimed or shamed.”Managing director of Adshel, Julie France, said: “We want to be able… Continue reading Adshel To Launch Research Service
ITV partners, Carlton and Granada, continued to see shares fall yesterday after Zenith Media downgraded its global forecasts on Friday (see Zenith Cuts Ad Forecasts Again), casting a shadow over the advertising industry. Carlton was down 0.98% to finish at £3.02, a loss of 3p on the previous day, while Granada saw stock drop 1.55%… Continue reading Sharewatch
The number of UK homes with multi-channel TV has reached the 10 million mark according to the latest figures from the British Audience Research Bureau (BARB).The figures show that 41% of the UK’s 24,458,000 TV households now have multi-channel TV and that almost 28 million individuals throughout Britain have access to multi-channel services.The news comes… Continue reading 10 Million Homes Have Multi-Channel TV
The Sunday Times is to close Doors its weekly internet supplement.The final issue of the magazine, which launched last October to provide consumers with an easy guide to the web, will be published this Sunday, after which it will be scaled down to form an eight page section of the Culture supplement.Editor of The Sunday… Continue reading Doors Close On Sunday Supplement
Independent News & Media Sees Profits Fall 17%Independent News & Media (INM) this morning reported that its pre-tax profits fell by 17.2% to E56.6 million during the six months to 30 June. The group, which publishes the Independent national newspaper, says that the drop is due to adverse currency movements, exceptional start-up costs, investment in… Continue reading Independent News & Media Sees Profits Fall 17%
Granada has poached Graham Duff from media buying agency Zenith UK to head up its advertising sales division.Duff, former chief executive of Zenith UK, will become the CEO of Granada Enterprises with responsibility for advertising sales across Granada’s broadcasting franchises. He replaces Mick Desmond who has been promoted to managing director of Granada Broadcasting and… Continue reading Granada Poaches CEO From Zenith
When Zenith downgraded its media forecast for 2001 once again at the end of August the doom-merchants intoned “ad revenue recession” even more gloomily. If Zenith’s -3%, or even ABN AMRO’s -5.4% UK ad growth prediction comes to pass, it will be the worst since the recession at the start of the last decade. But… Continue reading Feature: Future Predictions
