Ongoing weakness in the local advertising market and difficult year on year comparisons have persuaded Merrill Lynch to cut its Q4 US radio and TV station growth estimates. Radio revenues are expected to be flat in October and November with a 2% increase to come in December while the broadcast TV station industry will see… Continue reading MediaTelINSIGHT: US Broadcast Advertising Remains Off The Pace
Carlton and Granada were seen under pressure yesterday, down 3.28% and 2.75% respectively as disappointing corporate results combined with talk of an interest rate rise weighed heavily on the market.The market was alarmed by the release of minutes from the Bank of England’s policy committee, which revealed there was a vote of just 5-4 against… Continue reading Sharewatch: ITV Partners Hit By Market Slump
Future Network has increased its influence in the videogames magazine market by reaching a deal to acquire Computec Media UK for £3.2 million.CMUK publishes the unofficial Playstation magazine, PSW, which has an average monthly circulation of more than 50,000, and Xbox World, which has sales of over 25,000 copies a month.Under the terms of the… Continue reading Future Expands Games Magazine Portfolio With Acquisition
The National Magazine Company has announced the appointment of Sharon Douglas to the role of director of consumer sales and marketing.Douglas joins from Highbury House Communications where she currently holds the position of circulation director. Prior to that she was co-founder of a marketing and publishing agency and spent more than 10 years in various… Continue reading Natmags Poaches Highbury’s Douglas For Sales Role
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The latest RAJAR listening figures for the third quarter of 2003 brought bad news for Capital 95.8 FM. The station continued to see its dominance of the London market dip with a 13.9% year on year decline in weekly reach.Capital recently restructured its senior management team and put veteran programming executive, Keith Pringle, in charge… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q3 2003: Heart Challenges Capital For Top Spot
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Year on year analysis of listening for national radio services during the third quarter of 2003 reveals a poor performance for BBC Radio 1, which continued to see its audience decline. The flagship youth station saw its weekly reach drop by 9.4% year on year and its share of listening slip by 0.8% points during… Continue reading RAJAR Results Q3 2003: BBC Radio 1 Feels The Pressure
The Sunday Times is claiming that nearly 700,000 of its readers used the first edition of its interactive CD-Rom entertainment supplement, The Month.The widely marketed interactive feature, which launched at the end of April, has also been credited with boosting the paper’s circulation by 160,000 copies. However, this is thought to have dropped to 100,000… Continue reading Sunday Times Claims New Monthly CD-Rom Boosted Sales
The latest RAJAR listening figures for the third quarter of 2003 reveal another positive performance for All Commercial Radio, which saw its share of listening increase by a solid 1.3% points period on period. Meanwhile, the lead enjoyed by All BBC was eroded by a further 1.2% points.Earlier this week the BBC’s director of radio… Continue reading RAJAR Results: Q3 2003: National Commercial Still Rising
