BSkyB made something of a recovery, after speculation about its losses on Tuesday (see Sharewatch) turned out to be overly negative when its annual results were released yesterday (see BSkyB Reports Losses As Digital Subs Reach Record High). Shares rose 10p to £12.47Emap fell 25p to £11.80, but elsewhere in publishing Reed International gained 11p… Continue reading Sharewatch
IPC has formed a partnership with Virgin mobile to offer customers access to its unmissabletv website via Virgin’s WAP phones. This is the second WAP deal involving the group’s TV and entertainment website, which is also available on BT Cellnet WAP phones.Andrew Horton, business development manager of unmissabletv, said: “Unmissabletv is a proven WAP application… Continue reading IPC Allows Access To TV Listings Via WAP
Internet news services may be causing controversy between the BBC and ITN (see BBC Makes Promises, ITN Makes Threats) but most of the UK public have no intention of replacing TV or newspapers with online news as their first source of information. What’s more, if they do go online, they won’t pay for their news.News… Continue reading Web Report – UK Public Still Prefer Print To Pixels For Their News
British Sky Broadcasting today reported record annual growth in its subscription base, but the cost of its transition to digital continued to create an overall loss. In its full-year results, the group said that over 1 million new subscribers had signed up to its digital satellite service in the last 12 months.This takes the total… Continue reading BSkyB Reports Losses As Digital Subs Reach Record High
Radio stations that offend listeners by treating ‘phone-in guests badly or featuring offensive language and topics risk having their audience turn off or tune in to another station, according to new research.A recent study into radio listening habits undertaken by BRMB International for the Radio Authority and the Broadcasting Standards Commission found that 40% of… Continue reading One Third Of Offended Radio Listeners Will Turn Off, Says Survey
All three bids proposals for Regional Independent Media have now been passed to the Competition Commission. The Guardian Media Group joined Gannett and Johnston Press last week when it too asked the department for trade and industry for consent to make a bid for the regional newspaper group, the sixth largest in the UK (see… Continue reading Competition Commission Invites Evidence On RIM Bids
United News & Media announced yesterday that its divestment will be completed with the sale of the European business of its Miller Freeman subsidiary to Reed Elsevier (see United Completes Divestment As Rivals Prepare For Carve-Up). The company, thought of as favourite to merge with Granada Media, could not better the all-time high price achieved… Continue reading Sharewatch
RTL Group has floated on the London Stock Exchange today with a market capitalisation of £16.6bn. This figure is well above the price of £14bn anticipated when the listing date was announced earlier in the month (see Pan-European Broadcaster Announces London Listing Date).A surge in the shares of Audiofina is thought to account for the… Continue reading RTL Lists On Stock Exchange With Value Of £16.6bn
British Sky Broadcasting is expected to announce an early switch-off date for its analogue services in its annual financial results tomorrow. The satellite broadcaster is believed to planning to turn off its analogue signal in August 2001, a year and a half earlier than expected.The group launched its digital service in October 1998 and has… Continue reading BSkyB Seeks Early Analogue Switch-Off
A new radio consortium has been formed to bid for regional digital radio businesses in England and Wales. Guardian Media, Capital Radio, Chrysalis and Jazz FM have joined forces under the name MXR to bid for digital multiplexes in the West Midlands, North West, Yorkshire, North East and Severn Estuary/South Wales.Between them the four shareholders… Continue reading New Digital Radio Consortium Targets Regions
