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Emap chairman Adam Broadbent says the cross-media group is making ‘reasonable’ progress towards its full year goals with consumer magazine circulation revenues and advertising performing well.The Emap boss told investors at the company’s annual general meeting this morning that busines- to-business operations are performing strongly and magazine display advertising remains good. However, he revealed that… Continue reading Emap Makes Steady Progress Towards Full Year Targets

Wireless Group chairman and chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie has this morning revealed a positive performance for the radio group with second quarter revenues rising by 36% year on year.At the company’s annual general meeting, MacKenzie announced that the Euro 2004 football championships helped national speech station talkSPORT to see revenues for the quarter rise by… Continue reading Euro 2004 Helps Profits Surge By 40% At Wireless Group

ITV is planning a raft of early-evening soap spin-off programmes to boost flagging tea-time ratings, building on the success of popular soaps such as The Bill and Coronation Street.The broadcaster is understood to have commissioned scripts from programme maker Thames Television for a Bill spin-off entitled Sun Hill General, centering on the fictional St Hughes… Continue reading ITV Planning Soap Spin-Offs To Boost Autumn Schedule

As audiences begin to migrate to digital technology, the prospect of switching off the analogue radio signals has been raised by the government for the first time.Talk of future plans, similar to those for the television digital switch-over have been aired by Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for department of culture, media and sport.In her… Continue reading Analogue Radio Switch-Off Raised By Jowell

Chyrsalis Radio’s LBC stations have come together with weekly financial newspaper, The Business, to create joint radio and press advertising packages for targeted clients and agencies.The aim of the initial six-month deal, which includes LBC 97.3 FM and LBC News 1152 AM, is to allow advertisers to develop bespoke, creative-led activity which can bought across… Continue reading LBC Stations Secure Cross-Media Deal With The Business

Kelvin MacKenzie’s Wireless Group suffered a dip yesterday, sliding by 2.73% ahead of today’s AGM. The company is due to detail its strong performance throughout 2003, as well as highlighting achievements in the first half of 2004.The company claims to have seen a significant 36% increase in revenues during the second quarter of 2004, in… Continue reading Sharewatch: Wireless Group Dips Ahead Of AGM

Aegis remained in focus yesterday with shares rising by 2.56% as investors digested plans for the creation of a new media network to integrate the company’s £564 million a year digital and interactive advertising business (see Aegis Creates Global Network For Digital Marketing).The new Isobar Worldwide brand will focus on providing clients with information on… Continue reading Sharewatch: Aegis Boosted By Plans For Digital Network

RSVP, the recently formed cross-media sales alliance between Capital Radio, Viacom Brand Solutions and IPC, has secured its first pan-European deal to promote the launch of TDK’s scratchproof DVD product line.The deal will see RSVP, which was set up to provide bespoke cross-media solutions, promote the DVDs across the Capital Radio group in the UK… Continue reading RSVP Alliance Signs First European Cross-Promotional Deal

Lord Saatchi has told a gathering of some of the UK’s largest advertisers that a future Conservative Government would not hesitate to scrap the communications act if it became to restrictive.The Conservative party chairman told guests at ISBA’s annual luncheon that a Tory Government would repeal the Act if it became too “odious” in the… Continue reading Conservative Government Would Scrap Communications Act

UK advertising expenditure for 2004 is set to show bigger growth than previously anticipated with figures being revised up from the 3.2% predicted earlier this year to a more optimistic 4.8%.Figures published today by the Advertising Association show that the recovery that began in the first quarter of 2003 continued into the first quarter of… Continue reading UK Adspend Expected To Show 4.8% Increase In 2004