ITV1 and the BBC are preparing themselves for the annual Christmas ratings battle and both appear to be depending on the pulling power of long-established programmes.ITV1 is hoping that Celebrity Big Brother hasn’t drained the public’s obsession with celebrities and is offering up Celebrity Blind Date, a Stars In Their Eyes Celebrity Special and Celebrity… Continue reading ITV And BBC Gear Up For Christmas With Old Favourites
Guardian Media Group has announced that it is to move Jazz FM’s sales operation from Clear Channel Radio Sales (CCRS) to Chrysalis.CCRS was only acquired last month but is to be sold on to Radio Investments Limited, in which GMG is a major shareholder.Chrysalis will now represent nationally all five GMG Radio stations – Jazz… Continue reading Chrysalis To Represent All GMG Stations
The Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, John Whittingdale, has launched an attack on the new Communications Bill, claiming it may “introduce statutory regulation of newspapers through the back door.”Speaking at the second reading of the Bill in Parliament yesterday, Whittingdale commented: “This Bill, far from protecting press freedom, does quite the… Continue reading Tories Warn Ofcom May Jeopardise Press Freedom
BBC Magazines has promoted Katherine Rose, former marketing director of homes, gardening and food magazines, to the new role of marketing planning director.The move is part of a widespread re-structuring scheme to create a central marketing planning team as part of a review of the entire marketing department. As well as the creation of a… Continue reading BBC Magazines Establishes Centralised Marketing Teams
The ITC has dismissed complaints that performances given by Christina Aguilera and Holly Vallance on ITV1’s Saturday morning show, CD:UK, were “inappropriate”.The ITC received 13 separate complaints from viewers who were concerned that the performances were “too suggestive” for children.The regulator acknowledged that the show is one of the most-watched music programmes on TV and… Continue reading ITC Dismisses Complaints Against Raunchy CD:UK
Analysis of the latest TV revenue figures for October reveals a positive period for total UK terrestrial TV. Gains were experienced across the board, but Channel Five saw the most significant improvement, with revenue rising by 31.8% year on year despite the recent departure of chief executive, Dawn Airey (see Airey’s Departure Represents Coup For… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up October 2002
The Government’s plan to switch off the analogue signal by the 2010 deadline has received a boost with news that over one million people have requested information on the new digital terrestrial platform, Freeview.According to the Freeview consortium, which comprises BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle, around 400,000 calls have been made to the Freeview information… Continue reading Freeview Boosts Prospect Of Analogue Switch Off
Virgin Radio is to run a week long campaign for Microsoft to encourage families to consider buying a PC or upgrading their existing machine in the run up to Christmas.The interactive cross-media campaign, which was secured through Virgin’s Access All Areas initiative, begins next Monday on the Daryl Denham Breakfast Show and continues on the… Continue reading Virgin Radio Secures Festive Microsoft Deal
The IPA’s research director, Lynne Robinson, admitted at this year’s MRG Conference in Budapest that 2002 has been a poor year in terms of joint industry media research contracts.Delivering the final soap box session of the conference, she said: “Almost all industry contracts have ranged from being in complete turmoil to coming under fire from… Continue reading MRG Conference: Joint Media Research Contracts Under Fire
The media market was seen up on Monday, lead by the telecoms sector, which improved despite weaker than expected US manufacturing data.Investors will be awaiting a long list of economic news and data this week, including the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meeting.Maiden was the sector’s big story yesterday, with stock rising 8.11% following… Continue reading Sharewatch
