The Guardian Media Group (GMG) and the Scottish Media Group (SMG) are to review their ownership stakes in breakfast television station GMTV. The two parties are understood to have approached Schroders, the investment bank, in the hope of soliciting offers for the stakes.SMG owns 20% of GMTV and Guardian Media holds a 15% stake. The… Continue reading GMTV Shareholders To Review Stakes
A TV Round-Up for 1998 is now available to subscribers in the Television features list. Data for revenue, costs per thousands, impacts and viewing share are analysed across the whole year.Subscribers can access the Television database by selecting “Television” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.
Following the Granada Group AGM yesterday, the media owner’s chairman, Gerry Robinson, released a positive trading statement showing that advertising revenue had risen by 6% in the first quarter to December 1998. ITV, of which Granada is one of the franchises, almost achieved its target peak time viewing share of a 38% set by Richard… Continue reading Granada Reports 6% Rise In Ad Revenue For 1998
The Q4 RAJAR figures released today have thrown up a rather mixed batch of results in the London Stations sector, showing some sharp increases in weekly reach, but also some substantial falls. Choice FM showed the largest proportional rise in weekly reach, rising 27.9%.Capital 95.8FM is still dominating the sector in terms of weekly reach.… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR 1998 – London Stations
RAJAR The data release for Q4 1998 topline radio audience figures will be available in MediaTel’s Radio Database from 2:00pm this afternoon, 4 February.ABC Consumer magazines circulation data for July-December 1998 is released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) on 12 February and will be available in MediaTel’s Press Database from 9:30am on that… Continue reading RAJAR And ABC Data Release Times
In this quarter’s RAJAR data it is the local commercial radio stations which have staved off what could have been a poor showing by the commercial sector as whole. Where national commercial stations lost 4.9% of their weekly reach and their share of listening fell from 10.0% to 9.3%, the local stations pushed their reach… Continue reading Q4 RAJAR – Local Commercial Stations
The Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) received an enormous boost to its stock after being received into the top 100 companies list. DMGT shares rose by 256p to 3,453p.Following Radio Advertising Bureau figures which today report an 18.6% growth in commercial radio revenue last year (see Commercial Radio Revenue Tops £420m In 1998), shares… Continue reading Sharewatch
The weekly reach of All BBC stations rose by 0.6% to 26.73 million in Q4 1998, according to this afternoon’s RAJAR data release. This compares to All Commercial’s weekly reach increase of 0.2% to 28.45 million. Whilst BBC Network Radio saw a 0.9% rise in its reach (23.15 million), All National Commercial radio fell by… Continue reading Q4 1998 RAJAR – National Stations
The cable communications company Telewest has announced that it has awarded its £15 million advertising business to Jones Mason Barton Antenen. The shift marks the end of Telewest’s relationship with GGT Direct, with whom the group have been for over 2 years.On-going projects will be completed by the incumbent over the next three months, but… Continue reading Telewest Gives Ad Account To Jones Mason Barton Antenen
Q4 RAJAR figures, released this afternoon, show that whilst overall radio listening has remained pretty static year on year (up by just 0.2% to give an average weekly reach of 40.32 million listeners), national commercial weekly reach has slipped slightly, down by 4.9% to 11.18 million (23%). All commercial radio, however, made a very slight… Continue reading Q4 Rajar Summary – BBC Closes In On Commercial’s Share Of Listening
