Future Publishing has acquired Carlton Stanhope Media’s Future Home magazine and plans to merge it with its existing Digital Home title.The move will see the significant expansion of Future’s monthly home interest magazine, which was tested with a one-off edition last Christmas and launched as a monthly stand alone title in May (see Future Publishing… Continue reading Future Expands Digital Home Magazine With Acquisition
The Telegraph is launching a radio advertising campaign to support its new Dine Out supplement, which will offer readers discounted meals at selected restaurants across the UK.The 24-page tabloid supplement will be published next Saturday and will offer readers that collect tokens from the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, specially discounted deals at 500 UK restaurants.A… Continue reading Telegraph To Promote Discount Dining With Ad Campaign
The second half of 2003 promises to be as difficult for ITV as the first with the increase in audience numbers failing to halt a slide in revenues. The network also faces mounting competition from terrestrial and multichannel rivals and hopes are being pinned on the proposed merger of Carlton and Granada to deliver a… Continue reading MediaTel Insight: ITV Treads Water In Difficult Seas
BSkyB was seen in focus last week with shares falling 2.53% to close at £6.94˝, despite comfortably beating market forecasts in its final quarter customer growth, adding 133,000 new subscribers and taking its customer base to 6.8 million (see BSkyB Results Beat Market Expectations As Subs Hit 6.8m).The satellite broadcaster has also been in the… Continue reading Sharewatch: BSkyB Falls Despite Boosting Subscribers
BSkyB’s £1.024 billion deal with the Premier League has come under further threat following reports that rival broadcasters plan to complain to the Competition Commission that the football rights auction was unfair (see BSkyB And BBC Big Winners In Premiership Bidding Contest).It is understood the broadcasters that missed out on the rights to screen live… Continue reading Rival Broadcasters Round On BSkyB’s Premiership Deal
MTV UK and Ireland has secured Wrigley’s Extra as the six-figure sponsor of its flagship Total Request Live show.The deal, brokered by Viacom Brand Solutions and Sponsorcom, will include break bumpers and integrated sponsorship of the show, which will be supported by a terrestrial TV and national radio advertising campaign.Total Request Live, which is MTV’s… Continue reading MTV Secures Wrigley’s Extra For TRL Sponsorship
Emap Advertising has secured Nokia as a major client for its recently launched youth-targeted sales package, OneNation.The deal will see the new Nokia 3300 music phone promoted across Emap’s Kiss, Smash Hits, Friday Night Kiss and Big City Network, enabling the brand to target radio listeners under the age of 35 on a national scale.Nokia… Continue reading Emap Secures Nokia For OneNation Ad Push
FHM is to return to TV advertising this autumn with a six-figure campaign designed to strengthen its position in the men’s lifestyle magazine market.The campaign, created by NMI, will focus on the magazine’s successful High Street Honeys competition to find Britain’s 100 sexiest undiscovered women and turn one of them into a coverstar.The promotion, which… Continue reading FHM Returns To TV Advertising With Six Figure Campaign
Hollinger International, the US-based publisher of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, has issued a profits warning. The costs of a special investigation into executive payments are being blamed for a prospective shortfall of 17%.In a US regulatory filing, Hollinger said that operational income for the full year would be in the $54 million… Continue reading Financial Probe Impacts On Hollinger Profits
The Independent Television Commission has refused to censure an ad for Fosters larger, despite receiving complaints from 184 viewers.The ad featured camcorder footage of ‘Big Doug’ doing a bungee jump over a river. He then gets his head bitten off by a crocodile, leaving his headless body and arms waving above the river.The image is… Continue reading ITC Refuses To Censure Controversial Bungee Jump Ad
