Granada is understood to have expressed an interest in buying Mirror Group’s television interest, Live TV. According to industry rumours, Granada is proposing to replace Live TV with its own transactional channel, Shop! (see Newsline).Towards the end of April, pay-TV programme provider, Flextech, also registered an interest in Live TV (see Newsline). The station is… Continue reading Granada Rumoured To Be Interested In Live TV
Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, which yesterday announced a 55% increase in pre-tax profit (see Sharewatch), fell by 10p to 2,090p by the close of trading yesterday.United News & Media (UNM) and BSkyB launched free ISPs this week, but both media groups saw losses in their share prices yesterday. UNM, which kicked off its free ISP… Continue reading Sharewatch
The BBC and Talk Radio are to share the radio broadcasting rights for the FA Cup and England’s home football internationals for the next three years, it was announced yesterday.Until now, the FA Cup has been exclusively broadcast by the BBC, on Radio 5, and England home internationals have been under exclusive contract to the… Continue reading Talk Radio Breaks BBC Exclusivity On FA Football Rights
In a response to devolution, BBC Radio 1 has signed up a raft of new presenters who will host shows broadcast directly to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The new shows will focus on the music scene in each country and will replace Steve Lamacq’s Evening Session on Thursdays. Lamacq’s programme will still be broadcast… Continue reading BBC Radio 1 Responds To Devolution With New Regional Programming
United News & Media’s ITV franchises – Meridian, Anglia and HTV – have this week launched branded free internet service providers (ISPs) in a joint venture with existing free ISP LineOne. LineOne is joint owned by UNM and BT.UNM hopes to use its existing television brands to attract users to the services and has launched… Continue reading UNM’s ITV Stations Launch Free Net Access
The Independent Television Commission has agreed that Channel 5 can reduced the proportion of original programming and commissions it broadcasts in order to increase its focus on other areas.The changes will see a cut in the number of original productions in entertainment, sport, current affairs and drama. The minimum requirement for C5’s original productions/commissions has… Continue reading ITC Agrees To Reduction In Original Material On Channel 5
e-partners, News International’s recently launched online investment firm, has appointed News Corp’s Bruce McWilliam as a partner in the group. He joins Mark Booth, who left the position of chief executive at BSkyB to join e-partners (see Newsline). Cable & Wireless is to shed 100 management jobs in a shake-up of its corporate operations at… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Associated Newspapers announced last week that its listings supplement, Hot Tickets, was a potential contender in the paid-for listings magazines market (see Newsline). As well as being distributed free with Associated’s Evening Standard as usual, Hot Tickets will now be for sale on the newsstand every Friday for 85p.The major player in the London listings… Continue reading Time Out Welcomes Hot Tickets’ Move To Newsstands
IPC Magazines has this week reported a 10.7% loss in operating profits to £29.3 million for the six months ended March 1999. The publisher’s interim results also show that revenues increased by 5.7% to £175.2 million across this period. Circulation revenues were up by 3.7%, and ad revenues rose by just 0.1%.IPC Magazines recently renamed… Continue reading IPC Magazines Profits Down By 10.7%
Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, which this week announced a 55% increase in pre-tax profit, remained stable yesterday. Ad revenue for the group was up by 8.7%, and operating profit from local publishing, including contract publishing, rose by 41% to £12.8 million.EMAP, which announced yesterday that it is to overhaul its weekly entertainment title Heat in… Continue reading Sharewatch
