17 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
on business comment and analysis. While the paper will not take business copy from PA, it will take national ...
-in-chief and will be run on a day-to-day basis by executive editors Richard Northedge, currently Sunday Business deputy ...
14 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
The company was trading at a six-week low of 446.5p during a mixed day on the stock market for media and advertising shares.
Troubled ITV companies Carlton and Granada rose 1.56% to 227.5p and 0.18% to 136.25p respectively, while rival BSkyB was down 0.87% to 739.5p.
However, cable ...
13 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
Nile TV will broadcast up to four hours a day of programmes, offering an "unfettered" Arab perspective on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The launch of the Hebrew service marks the first time an Arab ...
in Israel have been limited to several hours a day.
The new Egyptian station will broadcast a mix ...
11 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
eventually for the top job at the BBC. He was previously director of national and regional broadcasting from ...
11 Dec 2001
| by Staff,
The hardest hit medium was national newspapers, which saw ad revenue drop 21.5% to 1.5bn, according to research published by CMR, the advertising and marketing information service.
CMR estimates that the total spend on advertising for the first three quarters of 2001 was 48.1bn, down from ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
on the cover of Business Week just days after AOL Time Warner was created.
If you have an opinion ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
benefits of digital TV," he said.
During the day the channels will broadcast two children's offerings ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Trinity Mirror's national newspapers saw advertising revenue slump by 20% in November...In a trading statement, the company revealed that advertising revenues for its UK national newspapers, The Mirror , The Sunday People , The Sunday Mirror and The Racing Post declined by 1.3% for the third quarter of the year. It said that display advertising was badly affected, although classified ...
06 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
However, a sour note was struck by the plummeting share price of BSkyB, which saw 43.5p wiped off its price, trading down 4.6% at 892.5p. Earlier in the day, Goldman Sachs downgraded its shares from "recommended list" to "market outperformer", and the broadcaster warned that its 2002 revenues could be "flat ...
06 Dec 2001
| by Claire Atkinson,
NEW YORK - Media owners and marketing services chiefs have spent the past few days offering a