Revenue Agency estimates put year on year growth in terrestrial television revenue (including GMTV) at 19.6%, with the total now at £245 million. This comprised ITV revenue’s 20% rise, Channel 4’s growth of 15.3%, Channel 5’s revenue rise of 33.8% and GMTV’s 7.5% year on year increase.Total satellite revenue increased by 12.5% year on year.Carlton… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – June 2000
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
United News & Media has announced that it has agreed to sell the European business of its Miller Freeman subsidiary to Reed Elsevier for £360m in cash. The group sold off the US arm of the business last week (see United Disposes Of Miller Freeman USA) and today’s sale completes the divestment programme announced in… Continue reading United Completes Divestment As Rivals Prepare For Carve-Up
Daily Mail was the best performer in the FTSE 100 yesterday, gaining nearly 78p to end £10.81. This followed the group’s acquisition of Australian Trade Exhibitions.NatMags is set to become more of a rival to Emap, thanks to its recent acquisition of Gruner & Jahr (see NatMags Grabs Gruner and Jahr). However, Emap did not… Continue reading Sharewatch
Jon Florsheim, Sky TV’s sales and marketing director, has been appointed managing director of Open. He replaces James Ackerman, who has been appointed president and chief operating officer of Open TV, the US-based company which provides the software, services and applications that enable digital interactive television. The change of staff comes in the wake of… Continue reading Appointments Brief
UK cinema admissions showed a 30% drop in year-on-year admissions for June this year. The witholding of releases due to the Euro 2000 football tournament and the particular success of films including Notting Hill and The Matrix last year (see Cinema Achieves Best June Admissions In 27 Years) are being blamed. In June 1999, admission… Continue reading Cinema’s Gladiators Can’t Compete With Last Year’s Sci-Fi And Londoners
A new chief executive officer has been appointed at Carlton Communications. Gerry Murphy, the former chief executive of freight distribution group NFC, will take up the position with immediate effect as the TV company prepares for the final round in the bidding war for consolidation within ITV.He will take the place of Steven Cain, who… Continue reading Carlton Appoints New CEO, Looks For Partnership With Granada
IPC Connect’s women’s weeklies have become the first mass-selling UK magazines in the UK to employ the sense of smell in advertisements. Innovative technology allows the readers to apply fragrance to be sampled by rubbing their hand across the advertisement itself.The full-page ad campaign, for Lever Bros new mint flavour Jif Bathroom Mousse is running… Continue reading IPC Adds Fragrance To Ads
More than one in three internet home users in the UK are visiting financial websites, with Egg.com being the most popular. These findings from NetValue show that the UK is ahead of France but behind Germany in the percentage of users going to financial sites and has seen lower growth than either of those countries… Continue reading Figures Show Online Banking Taking Off Across Europe
