Nigel Reeve has quit his position as managing director of London News Radio. Huge changes in the management of the group, which owns two stations in the capital – LBC 1152 AM and News Direct 97.3FM – have forced him from his position.The changes began when shareholders within the group began to increase their control.… Continue reading Managing Director Of London News Radio Quits
Media group EMAP has given an upbeat forecast on sales at its UK and French consumer magazines businesses, which are set to show good growth in the second half of the year, the group said today.Sales in the first half year for its UK magazine and radio operations and its French publications would be similar… Continue reading EMAP Anticipates Second Half Revenue Growth
Guardian Unlimited, the website for the Guardian, has registered half a million people since its launch nine months ago. With its seven specialist sites including news, film, football and work, it is currently one of the most popular newspaper sites. It also registered 9.75 million page impressions in the first official ABC audit. A new… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Digital channel ITV2 will be available on the Telewest cable network from today. The channel, which launched last December (see ITV2 – Not Entirely A Different View) will be accessible to 850,000 more homes throughout England as a result.From 6pm each day the service will be available in all Telewest homes, the latest figures for… Continue reading ITV2 Gets Carriage Deal With Telewest
A new web-based media trading system that will allow media buyers and sellers to trade inventory online is currently being developed by a company called iMediaPoint.com. The system, which is due for launch in the fourth quarter of this year, will offer a broad range of media space including radio, internet and television.Heading up the… Continue reading Internet Media Trading System Developed By iMediaPoint.com
Information group Reuters continues to sustain losses after a negative meeting with analysts last week caused stock to plummet (see Sharewatch). Shares were down a further 27˝p to 682˝p; in total they have dropped 25%.Shares in Ulster Television rose by over 5% yesterday to 196p. A new managing director, John McCann, who takes over the… Continue reading Sharewatch
Take-up of cable television continued to rise in the second quarter of this year. The latest figures from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) show that 12.6% of all homes in the UK now watch television over broadband cable. This compares to 12.4% in the last report (see Cable TV Take-Up Rises).Of the 12.1 million households… Continue reading Cable Television Growth Continues
Revenue Total terrestrial television revenue for August 1999 (including GMTV) stood at £188.4 million, according to agency estimates. Of this ITV saw a year on year rise of 10.7%; Channel 4 was up 13.6% year on year and Channel 5’s rose by 42.7%. GMTV’s revenue made a 1.3% jump total ad revenue for satellite television… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – August 1999
Freeserve, the UK’s largest internet service provider (ISP), has announced a strong increase in subscriber numbers, alongside deepening losses over the last quarter. In the 16 weeks to 21 August the free ISP saw subscribers increase by 19% quarter on quarter to 1.4 million.The rate of growth in Freeserve’s subscribers increased by 19% over the… Continue reading Subscribers And Losses Rise At Freeserve
Revenue Total terrestrial television revenue for August 1999 (including GMTV) stood at £188.4 million, according to agency estimates. Of this ITV took £131.0 million, a year on year rise of 10.7%; Channel 4 took £39.8 million, up 13.6% year on year and Channel 5’s revenue came in at £13.1 million, up 42.7%.GMTV’s revenue made a… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – August 1999
