Pearson continued to see shares fall yesterday after releasing its interim financial results on Monday (see Pearson Results Show FT Profits Hit By Ad Downturn). Stock dropped 1.29% to finish at £10.73 for the day, a loss of 14p on the previous day.ITV partners, Carlton and Granada continued to see shares rise in yesterday’s market.… Continue reading Sharewatch
Capital Radio has appointed David Andrews as marketing chief, with responsibility for Capital’s FM music stations and Gold Network.In line with Capital’s intention to build strong brands, Andrews will be responsible for defining and developing the marketing and business strategy for the CHR network (the umbrella brand for Capital’s FM music stations) and the Gold… Continue reading New Marketing Chief At Capital
Granada has completed its acquisition of Border Television from Capital Radio for £50.5m, reinforcing the media group’s position as ITV’s leading shareholder.Granada, which agreed to buy Border from Capital last April (see Granada Agrees To Buy Border TV Assets), now owns six of the 14 ITV regional licences and has increased its share of the… Continue reading Granada Completes Border Deal
Go Racing, the consortium which owns the rights to British horseracing, has renamed itself “attheraces” and rebranded with a new corporate identity.The consortium, made up of by BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, was forced to rename itself after discovering that the domain name, ‘Goracing’ was unavailable and could not be used for the company’s… Continue reading Go Racing Rebrands
The completion date for TV’s “digital revolution” may remain unclear, but the democracy that a multi-channel world brings is already in evidence in TV viewing patterns. The audience has not changed much in size, but the traditional strongholds of ITV and BBC1 have seen their share drift downwards in recent years, with the main beneficiaries… Continue reading Feature: Losses And Gains In TV
The events programme for the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) 2001 has been announced. Key speakers will include: ITV’s director of programmes, David Liddiment, who will deliver the MacTaggart Lecture; president of Endemol Entertainment John de Mol, who will give the Worldview Address and Dawn Airey, chief executive of Channel 5, who will give… Continue reading GEITF Announces Events Programme
Following the release by BSkyB of Sky+ (see BSkyB Launches New Set Top Box), a new integrated personal video recorder, Datamonitor forsees rapid uptake of new set top boxes across Europe. By 2005, Datamonitor predicts that 48% of set top boxes will include PVR technology. 42% of households with digital TV are also forecast to… Continue reading New Era Dawns For Set Top Boxes
National commercial speech station talkSPORT is to be allowed to provide a separate football programme for Scotland and Northern Ireland. The station asked to establish the “split” service in order to provide phone-ins and coverage which covered the Scottish Premier League rather than the English one.The station is capable of broadcasting in this way due… Continue reading TalkSPORT Allowed To Split Scottish Football
Channel 4 is launching 4 Creative, a new commercial venture specialising in TV related cross-platform marketing.4 Creative has been set up in response to the increasing demand for Channel 4’s creative services department to take on projects that fall outside the day to day requirements of programme promotion. It will take over from the creative… Continue reading Channel 4 Gets Creative
Pearson, which released its interim financial results yesterday (see Pearson Results Show FT Profits Hit By Ad Downturn), saw shares rise 4.72% to finish at £10.87, an increase of 49p on the previous day.Trinity Mirror, which last week announced that its pre-tax profit was down 9.7% for the six month period to 1 July 2001… Continue reading Sharewatch
