Revenue The combined terrestrial TV revenue for May, according to agency estimates, came in at £193.31 million which is a drop of 3.83% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue fell 5.7% year on year to £148.81m while Channel 4’s rose 2.2% to £46.5m. The ratio between ITV and C4 revenue for May was 76:24. It is also estimated… Continue reading TV Round-Up – May
Primesight plc, the outdoor advertising company, has announced details of its flotation on the London Stock Exchange. 2,820,750 Ordinary Shares of 10p each in the Company are being placed, primarily with institutional investors at 135p. At the Placing Price, the Company will have a market capitalisation of £13.55 million. Dealing is expected to commence on… Continue reading Primesight Prices Flotation
Ford will be sponsoring the ITV broadcast of the 1997 Royal Tournament. The car manufacturer has sponsored the show in part for the last five years and the new full sponsorship deal was negotiated by Sally Blackburn at Laser and James Papworth at the Network on behalf of Ford.As well as sponsoring the opening, Ford… Continue reading Ford To Sponsor Royal Tournament
Channel 5 has decided to appoint a controller of sport due to its growing ambition to acquire rights to more sporting events.Robert Charles, formerly controller of sport at Yorkshire Television, takes on the newly created role. Sporting output was previously handled by Nick Wilson, who was also in charge of children’s programming. He will now… Continue reading 5 Strengthens Commitment To Sport
Granada will buy Yorkshire Tyne-Tees Television for £711m it was announced this morning. This puts a value of £11.75 on each YTTV share.For the implications of the Granada/YTTV merger, subscribers should click Granada Confirms YTTV Interest.Granada: 0161 832 7211
Digital Television Network, the group who lost its application for the digital multiplex licences B,C and D to British Digital Broadcasting, has issued a joint-statement following the result. James Gatward, chairman of DTN and Barclay Knapp, president and chief executive of NTL, the cable and broadcasting services group who own DTN, said: “We are disappointed… Continue reading DTN Responds
Leo Burnett has scooped the Grand Prix award at this year’s Cannes International Advertising Festival. The agency won the award in the Press and Posters section for its Mercedes-Benz campaign entitled ‘Skidmarks’.Also in the Press and Posters section, Almap/BBDO won the gold award for the UK for its work with Autan Insect Repellant in the… Continue reading Leo Burnett Takes Grand Prix At Cannes
MAGtrack, the media research company, is launching NETtest next week.NETtest is a product that allows publishers with Web magazines to evaluate the visitors who are accessing their sites. Unlike the auditing tools provided by bodies such as BPA and ABC which quantify the total number of ‘hits’, NETtest will provide information on what types of… Continue reading The Net Test
Football’s Premier League has been advised to set up its own television broadcast service when its current contract with BSkyB ends in 2001.According to the Financial Times media consultancy firm Oliver & Ohlbaum has told the League that if it was to arrange its own television service it would double the revenue it currently receives… Continue reading Premier League Advised To Ditch BSkyB
TDI, the transport advertising specialist has appointed its first commercial sales director, Andrew Oldham. Oldham was sales director at the now extinct Media Sales & Marketing, he takes up his new position next month.TDI: 0171 482 3000
