The lead enjoyed by Capital 95.8 FM among the London stations was retained for this quarter, despite slight declines for the station in both reach and share, period on period. Meanwhile the fight for second place continues, with the heavy marketing campaigns of Heart and Magic beginning to bear fruit.Capital remains a dominant force when… Continue reading Capital Continues London Domination Despite Falls In Share And Reach
Political, business and current affairs title, the Economist, part of the Pearson group, has undergone its first major redesign since 1987, which includes the introduction of full colour to all its pages.At over 150 years old, the title’s circulation shows no sign of needing a facelift, however, editor Bill Emmott pointed out that new readers… Continue reading Economist Goes Full Colour In Latest Redesign
The March 2001 RAJAR figures for local commercial radio show that weekly reach has decreased quarter on quarter from by 1%. Local commercial radio’s share of listening has risen for the same period, by 0.4 percentage points.The following tables show the best and worst performers, in terms of weekly reach and share of listening, of… Continue reading March 2001 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
As the latest RAJAR figures revealed that commercial stations continue to slip in share and reach (see Newsline), radio owners’ share prices took a dive. Capital was the worst affected, slipping over 5.5% or 47½p to £8.10 by the end of the day. Emap dropped 5p to £8.35 while GWR lost 12½p to end at… Continue reading Sharewatch
Cable giants NTL and Telewest are to merge their sales operations after NTL announced that it will be signing up to Flextech, the sales arm of Telewest, for all its internet, interactive and broadband advertising sales.Launching on July 1st, advertisers will for the first time be able to buy a single campaign across the entire… Continue reading NTL Signs Up With Flextech Sales
The costs of investing in internet development are showing at Chrysalis Group, as interim financial results for the six months to 28 February, show a group-wide pre-tax loss of £5.6 million.Chrysalis spent £9.1 million on new media activities, giving an operating loss of £4.8 million (compared to a £1.1 million profit for the same period… Continue reading New Media Costs Push Chrysalis Into The Red
The Radio Authority has received two applications for a re-advertised local licence for North London and three for another in South East London. The licences both run for a period of eight years from 1 January 2003 and the deadline for applications was 8 May. In a reflection of the capital’s diverse ethnic community, most… Continue reading Applications For London Radio Licences Reflect Diverse Ethnic Community
RAJAR’s latest figures, released this morning, showed that while All BBC managed to inch up another 0.4 percentage points quarter on quarter , All Commercial radio remained static in its share.All BBC Network Radio went up 0.2 percentage points, as did BBC Local and BBC Local/Regional. Local commercial radio saw percentage point gain of 0.4,… Continue reading BBC Local Stations Make Gains In Q1 2001 RAJAR Figures
ITN’s pan-European news channel, EuroNews, has extended its service distribution to cover the UK and Ireland by broadcasting via the Eurobird satellite. The arrangement is unusual in that the Sky Digital will be used to broadcast the free-to-air service at the same time as Sky is battling, as part of a consortium, to oust ITN… Continue reading ITN European News Channel Launches UK Version On Sky Digital
BSkyB’s interim results, which revealed subscriber numbers lower than analyst expectations and consequently affected profit and revenue figures (see BSkyB To Cease Analogue Broadcast This Summer), brought the broadcaster’s share price down by the close of yesterday’s trading. Shares finished down 52p at £8.04.Worse hit was Highbury House, which held its AGM yesterday and warned… Continue reading Sharewatch
