Digital terrestrial television broadcaster, ONdigital, has today fired a return salvo against its rival, BSkyB, with the announcement of a range of incentives for consumers to buy into the ‘TV revolution’. The most significant of these are plans to offer customers free set-top boxes as from this Friday 28 May, when they sign up to… Continue reading ONdigital Returns Fire In DTV War
Carlton Communications, which is releasing its six-monthly financial results on Wednesday, dropped 10p on Friday to 528p. Carlton, which half owns digital terrestrial broadcaster ONdigital with Granada, is expected to report a hit on pre-tax profit following the launch of the digital service late last year. Granada also suffered a 20p drop in its share… Continue reading Sharewatch
Monday MediaTel presents its inaugural Media Question Time to be held at the BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House tonight. More details to follow…A TV Round-Up for April 1999 will be available on Newsline.Wednesday Carlton Communications releases its interim financial results. Merrill Lynch predicts that pre-tax profit for the first half of 1999 will be £118.8… Continue reading The Week Ahead
With a great deal of hype surrounding the programme it should come as no surprise that Geri, the year long fly-on-the-wall documentary about former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, should end up being Channel 4’s number one rated programme. 4.37 million viewers tuned in to see ex-Ginger- now bland Spice – drone on about how miserable… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 09/05/99
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) enjoyed a rise in its share price yesterday, gaining 27˝p to 807˝p. On Wednesday, SRH gave issued a positive set of results (see Newsline).Emap climbed 43p to 1323p. Speculation over the possibility of publisher Wagadon going up for sale see (Newsline) today implicated Emap as an interested party .Flextech fell 50˝p… Continue reading Sharewatch
The former editor of the Sunday Express and Sunday Mirror, Eve Pollard, is forming a new publishing company with intent to launch a series of new consumer titles. The new company, called Parkhill Publications, is being backed by venture capitalists Phildrew Ventures, and a range of fresh titles are expected to launch within the next… Continue reading Pollard To Launch New Consumer Publishing Venture
The Evening Standard is setting up a network of six-sheet poster sites in London newsagents. Fifty have already been installed, with another fifty or more currently in the pipeline. “Independent newsagents is where our product sells, therefore it makes sense to advertise there” commented marketing manager Nick Sheldon, describing the opportunity as a synergy between… Continue reading Evening Standard Makes Its Mark On London Newsagents
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has put News International (NI) on notice after an investigation into recent ‘predatory pricing’ tactics. The OFT ruled that Rupert Murdoch’s group has used anti-competitive pricing tactics with its discounting of the Times newspaper.Between 1996 and 1998 the price of the Times was dropped to 10p on some issues… Continue reading OFT Puts News International On Notice Following Predatory Pricing
The Newspaper Publishers Association has elected Douglas Flynn, News International’s managing director, as its new chairman. He replaces Nicholas Rudd-Jones who recently transferred to United News & Media to head up its online operations (see Newsline). IPC Magazines launched a bi-annual title called Mountain Bike Buyer this week, which is aimed at first time and… Continue reading Newsline Brief
Emap Radio has made two key senior appointments. Adam Turner has been appointed to the newly created position of business director for music at Emap On Air, and Mark Hassall becomes commercial director for Magic FM and Kiss FM .Adam Turner was previously commercial director for Kiss, and Mark Hassall has worked with Emap On… Continue reading New Appointments At Emap Radio
