16 Dec 1999
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an offer for a share in beeb.com, the BBC’s commercial web property. Media Week has learnt that Flextech ...
– where Flextech and the BBC each have a 50% stake in the five channels. It is believed that Flextech ...
16 Dec 1999
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’s Cold Feet and BBC 1’s The Royle Family – which took the lion’s share of the votes. Last year the first ...
into the number one slot with a stonking great 14.6% of the vote. Similarly, the first series of BBC 1’s ...
series. The move from BBC 2 to 1 clearly did it no harm at all. Although Friends and, particularly ...
14 Dec 1999
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venture with Microsoft’s internet division, MSN. Later in the year, Telewest plans to roll out standalone ...
13 Dec 1999
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the company. Talks have been speeded up by common shareholders Liberty Media and Microsoft. The combined ...
UPC, which is also part-owned by Microsoft and Liberty. ...
10 Dec 1999
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publishing. Crispin Davis, Reed Elsevier’s new chief executive, said the company’s business would ...
years, Davis said. ...
02 Dec 1999
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for advertising on the BBC. It argues that if advertising were allowed on the BBC, any Carlton/United tie-up would ...
02 Dec 1999
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director of recruitment consultancy The Davis Company. One of the industry’s up and coming stars, Clare ...
25 Nov 1999
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– with the exception of BBC 2 which improved on its share in analogue multichannel homes by around 4% . Consolidated ...
Programme Guide BBC 1 slipped from a 26.6% share in all homes to 18.4% in digital homes. ITV recorded one ...
11 Nov 1999
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.com. In September RBI signed a deal with Microsoft linking totaljobs to the internet giant as preferred recruitment ...
09 Nov 1999
| by MediaWeek
The Advertising Standards Authority has selected BBC Secretary Christopher Graham as its next director general. Graham, who will take over from the existing director general, Matti Alderson, on April 3, has been secretary of the BBC since 1996 where he has been working closely with BBC Chairman ...