The Guardian Media Group has confirmed that it plans to launch a new morning newspaper in Manchester. Although still in its initial stages it is believed to be based on local models such as Trinity’s Daily Post & Echo in Liverpool which publishes a morning sister paper for its evening title.The group, which publishes the… Continue reading Guardian To Launch Manchester Morning Paper
The Daily Mail & General Trust has reaffirmed that its Associated New Media (ANM) division will focus its activities on the growing market for women on the internet. As part of this strategy ANM this week announced the sale of 60% of its Soccernet.com site to Buena Vista Internet Group, a division of the Disney… Continue reading Associated New Media To Concentrate On Websites For Women
Impacts ITV impacts are once again down for all audience categories year on year, notably Men which dropped back 7.8%. Conversely, Channel 4 impacts are improving for Men, up by 9.6% in July. However, this is likely to be because the World Cup last year ran until the second week in July, accounting for the… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – July 1999
Interim pre-tax profits at online information provider, Dialog Corporation, have fallen from £7.0 million to £1.7 million year on year for the six months ended 30 June 1999, the group announced today. Whilst revenues were up by 4.6% to £44.7 million between Q1 and Q2 this year, the company is still heavily indebted, now to… Continue reading Debt Burden Causes Profits Slip At Dialog
AOL Europe today launches its free internet service provider under the brand name Netscape Online (see AOL Challenges Freeserve With Free UK Net Access) and is confident that the service can become the UK’s market leader in free Net access. Netscape Online will go head to head with Dixons’ Freeserve, the country’s largest free service… Continue reading AOL Moves In To Free ISP Market
World magazine adspend increased by 5% in 1998, to US$38.2 billion (£23.8 billion) according to a new report by FIPP and Zenith. The report, World Magazine Trends 1999/2000 shows that the medium is performing strongly against a backdrop of economic instability and increased competition from other media.The report says that worldwide deregulation of the TV… Continue reading World Magazine Adspend Grows 5% In 1998
Following the demise of its funding formula payments to ITV (see C4 Funding Formula To End) and a resulting increase in the programming budget, the new Channel 4 autumn line-up includes an unprecedented number of new drama series.The flagship drama of the autumn season is the £6 million adaptation of Dava Sobel’s Longitude. Featuring a… Continue reading New Drama Series For Channel 4 Autumn Schedule
Revenue Total terrestrial television revenue for July 1999 (including GMTV) stood at £194.9 million, according to agency estimates. Of this ITV took £135.9 million, a year on year rise of 14.2%, Channel 4 took £41.8 million, up 13.1% and Channel 5 drew in £12.6 million, an increase of 37.2%.GMTV revenue continues to fall, this time… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – July 1999
Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest ceased trading as an independent company today after its takeover by US publisher Gannett, announced last June (see Newsquest Receives £904m US Takeover Offer).Shares in online information provider Dialog remained static at 85˝p yesterday after the announcement that its software sales arm has won a licensing deal with Spicers, the office… Continue reading Sharewatch
Programmes This month saw the return to terrestrial screens of some successful American imports. The beginning of the month saw the start of the fifth series Friends, with the opening episode attracting an impressive 5.81 million viewers. By the middle of the month the second series of Ally McBeal debuted with a strong 3.14 million.Competition… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – July 1999
