A new magazine for the radio industry has been launched. Airplay will be the sister publication to Broadcaster’s Bulletin and will cover all aspects of radio broadcasting.Establishing itself as a quality magazine for the developing radio market, it will contain features and industry news. It will be distributed to station managers, managing directors and other… Continue reading Radio Market Gets New Magazine
It is just three months since the UK cinema industry celebrated its most successful weekend in history and already the record has been broken again. Over the weekend of 11-13 February, box office admissions reached a new high of £14.2 million, pushed by the release of computer-animated film Toy Story 2 and The Beach, starring… Continue reading Feature: Advertisers Respond To Changing Cinema Audience
The planned women’s magazine from Dennis Publishing (see Dennis To Promote ‘Project Denise’ With £1.5m Campaign) will hit the newsstands on 24 Febuary. PS is a bi-monthly title targeting 30-something women and concentrating on the home shopping market. EMAP is to relaunch Select magazine in March. Its circulation was down in the latest ABC audit… Continue reading Magazines Brief
Global advertising and PR group, WPP, says that the real cost of advertising on network television, the primary media medium, is continuing to rise by as much as 5-10% a year on both sides of the Atlantic. WPP says that this is caused partly by increased pricing by an oligopoly of media owners and partly… Continue reading Network Inflation Drives Advertisers Away From TV, Says WPP
HSBC bank has renewed its sponsorship of all ITV drama premiere’s in a deal worth around £3 million. The contract will see HSBC associated with ITV’s drama premiere one-offs and mini-series for the duration of 2000 and kicks off with a feature-length edition of Poirot this Saturday.It has also been reported that NTL has won… Continue reading HSBC Renews ITV Drama Premiere Sponsorship
Radio group GWR rose 52˝ to a record 790p after announcing the launch of its internet arm, Ecast Ventures (see GWR Group Launches New Internet Company).Telewest jumped almost 9% to close at 456ź as bid rumours pushed the stock.Granada, however, continued to shed after a poor recommendation earlier in the week (see Sharewatch).The closing prices… Continue reading Sharewatch
The Word, a one-stop-shop regional press sales house, is set to close its business at the end of the month. The demise of the company follows the resignation of its chief executive, Gavin Caldwell, in October last year (see Newsline Brief). It was understood that Caldwell was frustrated at not being able to expand the… Continue reading The Word Set To Close
GWR announced today the launch of a new internet business, Ecast Ventures. Investing £6.5 million in the business, it aims to target the radio group’s 10 million weekly radio listeners with local and national sites.A local portal, koko.co.uk, will eventually be developed into a national network of locally orientated websites providing news and information. The… Continue reading GWR Group Launches New Internet Company
Granada shed 37p to 601p yesterday after Charterhouse Securities said that last week’s boost to the stock (see Sharewatch) – which saw it rise by 16% – had been overdone.BSkyB also saw losses after a recent run of high prices. It was one of the worst performers on the FTSE yesterday, losing 119˝p to £16.87˝p.The… Continue reading Sharewatch
An official value has been placed on Channel 5 for the first time since its inception, almost three years ago, as an 18% stake held by Warburg Pincus was sold last night to three existing shareholders for £172 million. At this price the whole of the terrestrial broadcaster is worth more than £1 billion.Warburg put… Continue reading Channel 5 Valued At £1bn By Sale Of Warburg Stake
