Impacts Impacts for May 1999 were up for all audience categories across all channels. For ITV, two big Manchester United matches and coverage of the war in Kosovo are both likely to have pushed impacts up year on year. ABC1 Adults impacts on ITV were up by 7.6%.Channel 4’s Geri documentary came up trumps during… Continue reading TV Round-Up – May 1999
London Metro, the free morning paper published by Associated Newspapers, has announced its first circulation figure for May 1999 of 286,805. This figure has been calculated under a new certificate for Bulk Distribution Publications under the ABC brand.Metro launched in March this year with a target circulation of 350,000 (see Newsline). The paper is distributed… Continue reading Associated’s Metro Releases First Circulation Figure
The BBC has secured exclusive broadcasting rights to the Wimbledon tennis tournament for the next five years, it emerged today. The BBC’s association with the tournament goes back 60 years, and the deal ensures that this relationship will continue.The BBC recently lost some of its exclusive sports rights to Channel 4 (see Newsline) and Talk… Continue reading BBC Secures Wimbledon Broadcast Rights For Next 5 Years
Two thirds of home internet users in the UK currently do not pay a fee to a service provider, turning instead to one of many free ISPs that have launched in the last few months. Of all the free players, Dixons’ Freeserve currently dominates with 31% of home Net users holding an active Freeserve account… Continue reading ‘Fickle’ Net Users Flock To Free ISPs
Reuters rose by 35p to 903˝p yesterday following reports that it is preparing to move into online retail stockbroking.Radio group GWR, which yesterday announced the launch of a free internet access service, climbed 1˝p to 461˝p yesterday.BSkyB fell by 1˝p to 594˝p despite press reports that its digital TV service is signing up customers at… Continue reading Sharewatch
Talk Radio has announced a two year deal today which gives the station exclusive radio coverage for all of Manchester United’s home games in European competitions. The deal will cover the 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 seasons, and will make Talk the only station to broadcast every Manchester United game in European tournaments. The matches will also… Continue reading Talk Secures Broadcast Rights To All European Man Utd Games
Talk Radio has added three members to its sales team to help expand the business and to exploit opportunities created by the station’s increased focus on sports coverage.Jason Trout joins as deputy sales director from TV3 where he is currently sales controller. Trout, who has also worked at BSkyB and Laser, will report directly to… Continue reading Talk Radio Boosts Sales Team
Channel 4’s gay drama Queer As Folk has provoked over 160 complaints from viewers according to the Independent Television Commission’s (ITC) latest report for Programme Complaints and Interventions. The series, which aired from 23rd February – 13 April this year, was based around the life of three young homosexual men in Manchester’s gay village.Most of… Continue reading Channel 4 Gay Drama Receives Over 160 Complaints
The world’s largest online internet service, America Online, has announced it is considering plans to launch a free web access product in Britain. AOL Europe said it was considering a variety of models for Internet access and is likely to announce further details within the next month.David Phillips, managing director of AOL’s UK operation, said:… Continue reading AOL May Launch Free Net Access In Britain
Tuesday The Media Research Group (MRG) Evening Meeting will examine the results of the First Impressions study carried out by Recall and GMTV which investigated the level of recall viewers have for television ads.Questions addressed by the study include: ‘Do longer ads have higher recall?’; ‘Is a centre break better than an end break?’ and… Continue reading The Week Ahead
