Programmes December is usually a month of two halves for viewers and advertisers alike. At the start there is the customary strong line-up of programmes on ITV, then during Christmas week the channel holds back its big guns for the New Year and allows the BBC to outperform it. This is based on the premise… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – December 1999
Programmes December is usually a month of two halves for viewers and advertisers alike. At the start there is the customary strong line-up of programmes on ITV, then during Christmas week the channel holds back its big guns for the New Year and allows the BBC to outperform it. This is based on the premise… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – December 1999
Shares in Reuters jumped 38p to £10.25˝p on rumours that bidders were lining up to make an offer for the information group. Thomson Financial and Bloomberg were seen as the most likely predators.Independent News and Media saw its prices soar by over 12% to an all-time high of £5.25p. Interest in the group, which owns… Continue reading Sharewatch
Invites have now gone out for MediaTel Media Question Time in association with The Economist and Carlton Television. The event will take place at the BBC Radio Theatre, W1, on the evening of Monday 28 February 2000 and follows a very successful launch last year (see Newsline).Media Question Time will be chaired by BBC Radio’s… Continue reading Top Panel Lined Up For Second Media Question Time
Shares in global advertising group WPP surged yesterday after the company announced investments in three new media ventures. Stock closed up 61p at an all-time high of 1,129p.Pay-TV group Flextech has performed very strongly in the last few days. Flextech is a shareholder in Scottish Media Group (up 31˝p at 1,130p) which is itself completing… Continue reading Sharewatch
Fifteen viewers complained to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) about an episode of Brookside which contained a scene of a couple having sex in a shower and another scene featuring a group of white racists.The episode, which was screened on a Saturday tea-time, also featured the word ‘shag’. Channel 4, which broadcasts the soap, notes… Continue reading Brookside Pulled Up For Sex And Racism
The Radio Authority (RA) has awarded the local digital multiplex licence for Liverpool to the sole applicant, EMAP Digital Radio. The licence, which covers Liverpool and the surrounding areas, will broadcast to a potential audience of 1.8 million adults (15+).EMAP Radio plans to broadcast eight programme services to the area drawn from its own station… Continue reading EMAP Wins Digital Radio Licence For Liverpool
The ITV Network’s commercial director, John Hardie, has tweaked his peaktime (7:00-10:30pm) audience share targets for 2000 to take into account the rapid growth in multichannel television viewing. In a presentation to advertisers the Network said its new target is to achieve a 1% increase in real terms in ITV’s average peaktime audience share.Originally Hardie… Continue reading ITV Adjusts Peaktime Target For 2000
Interactive television services platform, Open, has signed a deal with the Asda supermarket chain to sell the store’s goods from this summer. Asda joins a number of other retailers on the service, which launched last October (see Interactive TV Launches In The UK), including Woolworth’s, WHSmith, Domino’s Pizza, Carphone Warehouse, Dixons and Manchester United.Initially Asda… Continue reading Open Signs Asda To Interactive Service
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is inviting public comment on the proposed merger between media companies Carlton Communications and United News & Media (UNM) (see Media Merger May Hit Regulatory Obstacles). Specifically, the Commission is seeking to find out whether the single ownership of the two groups’ businesses might operate against the public interest.Carlton owns… Continue reading ITC Seeks Views On Carlton/UNM Merger
