Emap was seen in focus yesterday with shares rising by 1.50% to close at 757˝p after announcing in a trading update that group revenues for the first half of this year are expected to be up 2% due to the success of celebrity gossip magazine Closer (see Success Of Closer Helps Drive Revenues At Emap).Rival… Continue reading Sharewatch: Emap Dips Despite Good Revenue Forecast
Publishing group, Highbury House Communications, has announced that it will fail to meet expectations this year and as a result will not be paying an interim or final dividend, despite seeing a 24% jump in revenue during the first half of 2004.The group, which predicted a 27% year-on-year growth in profits from January to June… Continue reading Highbury House Unable To Meet Full-Year Expectations
Classic FM’s managing director and programme controller, Roger Lewis, is leaving the GWR-owned radio station at the end of next month to join ITV.News of his departure comes on the morning that GWR and Capital agree the terms of their proposed £711 million merger, which will see the creation of the UK’s largest commercial radio… Continue reading Classic FM Loses Managing Director To ITV
IPC Media’s weekly celebrity magazine, Now, has teamed up with mail order specialists Freemans to launch a joint marketing initiative.The market-leading title will this week begin targeting the catalogue’s customers with a specially created email marketing campaign featuring a mixture of special offers and competitions designed to drive sales.A ‘test cell’ of Freemans customers will… Continue reading Now Partners Freemans In Joint Marketing Initiative
BSkyB’s head of advertising sales, Mark Chippendale, is stepping down after fourteen years at the satellite broadcaster to pursue other interests.News of the high-profile departure comes just months after former Five deputy chief executive, Nick Milligan, joined the company as managing director of Sky Media, a newly created position that effectively gave him seniority over… Continue reading BSkyB’s Head Of Advertising Sales To Step Down
GWR, owner of radio station Classic FM, has said that following a strong start to the year, revenues for the first six months are expected to grow by 3% year-on-year.However, revenues in the second quarter, especially during August, were slower than anticipated and as a result its analogue sector, which generates 92% of group revenue,… Continue reading GWR Confident Over Revenue Prospects For the Year
Capital Radio Group has said that it is ‘cautious’ about the outcome for radio advertising in October to December, despite radio continuing to outperform the display advertising market.In a trading update issued this morning ahead of full-year results due on 25 November 2005, the group said radio revenues for the third quarter are forecast to… Continue reading Capital Radio Cautious Over Fourth Quarter Results
Capital Radio Group has said that it is ‘cautious’ about the outcome for radio advertising in October to December, despite radio continuing to outperform the display advertising market.In a trading update issued this morning ahead of full-year results due on 25 November 2005, the group said radio revenues for the third quarter are forecast to… Continue reading Capital Radio Cautious Over Fourth Quarter Results
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH), has said that an ‘excellent’ performance in radio and press has fuelled 2004 expectations and the group now predicts full-year revenues to be a healthy 9% ahead of last year.In a trading update issued this morning, the group said like-for-like radio revenues are estimated to be up 9% for the twelve… Continue reading SRH Confident Of Revenues Growing By 9% In 2004
ITV1 is planning to drop its celebrity idents as part of a rebrand timed to coincide with the launch of ITV3, its new digital channel for older viewers, later this year.The broadcaster has used a range of its biggest stars to promote its flagship ITV1 brand for the last two years. However, the celebrity idents… Continue reading ITV To Drop Celebrity Idents As Part Of Rebrand
