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
BBC Worldwide has secured a deal with NTL, which will see it producing a weekly special edition of the Radio Times especially tailored for cable customers.The magazine will be delivered weekly to NTL subscribers from next January and replaces the monthly NTL Guide which will fold in December. The new edition will include the usual… Continue reading New Radio Times Format For NTL Customers
AOL has launched a range of interactive service on Sky Active, including instant messaging, email, headline news, sport and weather.Sky viewers will be able to access AOL’s service via remote control while watching Sky TV programmes. AOL voiced its interest in entering the digital television market, along with Lycos earlier this year (see UK Internet… Continue reading AOL Launches Interactive TV Service On Sky Digital
UK cinema admissions for October totalled 13.4 million and averaged over 3 million admissions a week, according to the latest figures from the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA).Whilst this represents no change on the same period last year, the January to October 2002 period is up 13% year on year, with a total of 142.5 million… Continue reading October Cinema Admissions Hold Level
The biannual Media Research Group Conference takes place in Budapest later this week to examine the subject of media research in an ever-changing media environment.Speakers at the event, which runs from Wednesday 27 until Friday 29 November, include chief strategic officer at Publicis Derek Morris; COI head of research Jeremy Found; BSkyB’s head of client… Continue reading Conference To Examine Changing Face Of Media Research
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) has unveiled a wide-ranging plan which aims to double the size of the online advertising market in two years.According to IAB’s managing director, Danny Meadows-Klue, there is a vast disparity between the share of advertising budgets spent on the internet and the size of internet audiences.In an attempt to tackle… Continue reading IAB Plans To Double Internet Ad Spend In Two Years
An average of 50 million text messages were sent each day during October taking the monthly total to an all time high of 1.54 billion, according to the Mobile Data Association (MDA).The daily average for October, which is substantially higher than the 21 million daily texts sent each day in October 2000, brings the annual… Continue reading 50 Million Text Messages A Day In October
The Government could be set to introduce more effective safeguards to prevent foreign broadcasters from flooding the British television market with imported programmes once the foreign ownership regulations have been relaxed.In a report published today, the Independent Television Commission outlines its proposals to give new super-regulator, Ofcom, the power to introduce strict guidelines to protect… Continue reading ITC Moves To Protect Content Of British TV
