Press reports that BSkyB’s digital TV service is signing up customers at the rate of 10,000 a day, caused Granada, owner of rival DTV service, ONdigital, to fall back by 43p to 1,163p. BSkyB closed unchanged at 596p on Friday.Cable & Wireless, which concluded its takeover of Japanese group International Digital Communications last week and… Continue reading Sharewatch
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
Haymarket’s new internet title, The Net, hit the newsstands at the end of last week, adorned with the gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones. This clearly demonstrates that a pretty face sells, as the only mention of Zeta-Jones in this issue is in a review of her movie. The magazine aims to show people around the ‘world wide… Continue reading First Issue Review – The Net
Consumer publisher Future Network has revealed investors will be able to snap up its shares for £3.85 each when it makes its debut on the London Stock Exchange this week. This values the group at £577.5 million. 30% of Future will be offered in the flotation this Friday, with 38 million new shares expected to… Continue reading Price Set For Stake In Future
News International has cut the cover price of the Sun to just 10p in the Carlton television region, starting today. The promotion applies to every edition of the red-top paper and is set to run indefinitely. The Sun currently has a circulation of 3.7 million, making it Britain’s most-read daily newspaper.The cut in price for… Continue reading Sun Drops Cover Price To 10p In Carlton Region
Television coverage of the marriage of Prince Edward to Sophie Rhys-Jones was watched by a total of 13.9 million people, according to unofficial overnight figures. A total of 8.6 million watched Saturday’s Royal Wedding on BBC 1, whilst 5.3 million tuned in to ITV’s coverage.In terms of share of viewing, the BBC took 47% and… Continue reading Royal Wedding Coverage Attracts 14m Viewers
The Sun is launching a website dedicated its Page 3 Girls. The site, at page3.com, can be accessed by registering with the paper’s currantbun.com internet service provider. Media planning and research agency, BMP OMD, has appointed Jo Foster as its new director of strategy and research. The group is planning to increase the amount of… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Press Holdings’ chief executive, Bert Hardy, is to step down from the post to assume a non-executive role. The company, which publishes the Scotsman and Sunday Business amongst other titles, said that Hardy is recuperating following an operation.Andrew Neil, editor in chief at Press Holdings, will now take on the additional role of publisher with… Continue reading Press Holdings Chief Steps Down
Poole-based group Freestyle Publications has acquired two new snowboarding titles to add to its current portfolio, which includes the recently launched Boys Toys (see Newsline). The new titles are Snowboard UK and The Snowboard Bible, which Freestyle purchased this week from Air Publications.Snowboard UK has a circulation of 7,000 and is published seven times a… Continue reading Freestyle Publications Acquires Snowboard Titles
