Emap has announced plans to roll out its music channel, The Hits, following the signing of new carriage deals with Sky, NTL and Telewest.The popular music channel was made available on Sky earlier this month and will be launched on NTL and Telewest in January 2003.According to Emap, The Hits will be the UK’s first… Continue reading Emap Extends New Music Channel
Advertising revenues at Associated Newspapers fell by 9.6% during the year to 29 September 2002, contributing to a fall in operating profit from £83 million in 2001 to £80 million this time. However, the Daily Mail and Mail On Sunday titles both increased their share of the national newspaper market, despite their cover price increases… Continue reading DMGT Sees National Newspaper Revenues Up 5% By Christmas
ITV News Channel has achieved its highest audience yet with the Roma vs. Arsenal football match, which achieved peak audiences of over 1 million last night.The match provided the recently launched channel with a 8.96% audience share in the 7.45 to 9.30pm viewing slot. It also helped the news channel to its highest recorded audience… Continue reading ITV News Scores With Champions League Football
The Evening Standard has appointed former Marks & Spencer advertising chief, Matthew Chambers, as brand controller and has overhauled its ad sales department in a bid to stem declining advertising revenues.Chambers will report directly to Mike Anderson, the new managing director at the evening daily, who is overseeing the restructuring. He will work alongside ex-CIA… Continue reading Evening Standard Overhauls Ad & Sales Team
The Marketing and Sales Standards Setting Body (MSSSB) has announced details of its first project, which aims to create national standards in marketing education and greater clarity in the field.The MSSSB was set up in September in conjunction with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) with the aim of providing greater accountability and clarity… Continue reading New Marketing Body To Set National Standards
Chrysalis Radio has announced Jane Moore, who is best know for her weekly column in The Sun, will co-host the breakfast show when the station relaunches in January.Moore has 17 years experience in national newspapers and prior to starting her column at The Sun she was women’s editor for the red-top. She has also presented… Continue reading Jane Moore To Join LBC Breakfast Show
Mark Thompson, chief executive of Channel 4, has admitted the departure of Brookside from peak time schedules will leave a “big gap” at the channel, but pledged not to fill it with another soap.Speaking at yesterday’s Regional TV Conference in Salford, Thompson commented: “The move of Brookside means that we’ve now got quite an urgent… Continue reading Brookside’s Departure Leaves Hole At Channel 4
Shares in Carlton jumped after a deeper than expected round of cost cutting enabled the group to report annual results ahead of expectations (see Carlton Sees Improving Ad Trading As Loss Hits £156m). In a separate development, Paul Murray, the finance director of the company, admitted ITV overpaid for Premier League highlights. The stock was… Continue reading Sharewatch
BT has announced a partnership with MSN, which will see the two groups co-market internet access via BT broadband and Microsoft’s new internet service MSN 8.The deal makes BT Microsoft’s first major European distributor for MSN 8, the new multimedia email product, which has been developed to challenge AOL’s dominance in the market. MSN 8… Continue reading BT and MSN Announce Marketing Partnership
UK television is currently undergoing fundamental change as it is forced to react to the advance of technology and twenty-first century viewing habits. Predicting the future is no easy task but a new report has outlined some of the challenges faced by the industry and speculates on how the broadcasting landscape will look in the… Continue reading Insight Analysis: TV Industry Looks To The Future
