ITV has commissioned two new UK-produced soaps from United and Carlton. Trafalgar Road will replace the teatime slot previously held by Home and Away, and Crossroads is to be revived as the centrepiece of ITV’s 2001 daytime schedule.Announcing the deals David Liddiment, director of programmes, said: “This is a major investment by ITV in original,… Continue reading ITV Revives Crossroads To Boost Flagging Daytime Schedule
When Nasty Nick met his downfall in Channel 4’s summer hit Big Brother, net-heads everywhere knew about it long before more than 6 million TV viewers tuned in to the evening programme (see Nasty Nick’s Nightmare Notches Up Record Ratings For Big Brother). The Big Brother website, www.BigBrother.terra.com is an integral part of making the… Continue reading Online As On Screen – The Big Brother Effect Continues On The Web
The possible flotation of ONdigital (see ONdigital Prepares For Float, Denies Detailed Agreement With NTL) and positive broker comment helped shares in Carlton Communications close up 25p at £7.25 yesterday. Joint owners of ONdigital, Granada Media, ended down 6p at £6.70.Jonathon Goodwin, managing director of The Wireless Group, has announced his resignation. The company floated… Continue reading Sharewatch
ITV’s daytime schedule has been attacked by one of its major advertisers. Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Angus McIntosh, European media controller at Mars, said the network had become “stale” and unattractive to advertisers.The complaint was aired at a session at the festival entitled “Advertisers Heaven and Hell”, which sought opinions on what advertisers… Continue reading Advertisers Include Family Affairs And Daytime ITV In Their Idea Of “Hell”
A better-than-expected performance from newly acquired businesses has helped Johnston Press to reach interim pre-tax profits up 36% on last year. The regional newspaper publisher has released results for the six months to 30 June 2000 which reveal pre-tax profit of £35.2 million and like-for-like operating profit of £33.2 million, up 14% on last year’s… Continue reading Johnston Reports Healthy Half Year Profits
Whether the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has any teeth is an ongoing debate in broadcasting, but if it has, it wasn’t showing them to advertisers during July. Three separate television adverts attracted around 100 viewer complaints each, but all were let off the hook by the regulator.An advert for Heinz Salad Cream caused 112 viewers… Continue reading ITC Refuses To Uphold Hundreds Of Complaints Against Adverts
The following is an edited version of the Worldview Address, delivered by Barclay Knapp, President and CEO of NTL, at the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, on Saturday.In 1905 Albert Einstein began the “creative destruction” of classical Newtonian physics with his theory of special relativity, proving that space and time could stretch and bend in… Continue reading “Television Is The Internet, The Internet Is Television”: Barclay Knapp, President Of NTL, Speaks
IPC Media said it expected a 20% increase in its operating profits for this year, after announcing quarterly pre-tax profits of £4.8m. The consumer magazines group said advertising revenues rose almost 10% in the third quarter of 2000.Total revenues for the three months to June 30 were £94 million, a 2.8% increase on the same… Continue reading IPC Media Anticipates 20% Growth In 2000
Terrestrial, free-to-air television channels’ share of viewing is being increasingly cannibalised by the growth of multi-channel, pay-TV in the UK. As Media Track recently showed (see Feature: Pay-TV Channels Account For Almost Half Of All Viewing In Digital Homes), viewing to ITV in digital homes is on the decline, down to 19.6% on average so… Continue reading Feature: Channels With “Mass-Appeal” Slip As TV Market Fragments
ONdigital has been approached by cable group NTL in the hope of forming a marketing alliance to offset competition from BSkyB. The news comes as executives at Granada and Carlton revealed plans to make a decision within the next month on whether to proceed with a flotation of their joint-owned digital terrestrial platform.The UK’s largest… Continue reading ONdigital Prepares For Float, Denies Detailed Agreement With NTL
