New blow to ITV as BBC's Saturday Show beats SM:TV
10 Feb 2003 | by Staff,
LONDON - ITV has lost its Saturday morning children's TV supremacy as the BBC's 'The Saturday Show' celebrates toppling rival 'SM:TV' in overall individual audience figures.
LONDON - X-Ray magazine, the joint venture alternative music magazine from Capital Radio's Xfm and Swinstead Publishing, is to go monthly from its April issue, in a move that could put pressure on the NME and Q.
LONDON - ITV has lost its Saturday morning children's TV supremacy as the BBC's 'The Saturday Show' celebrates toppling rival 'SM:TV' in overall individual audience figures.
LONDON - Christine Hamilton exploits her flair for publicity, recreating Sharon Stone's notorious 'beaver' scene from the film 'Basic Instinct' in a new ad campaign for the shoe brand Hush Puppies.
PARIS - Publicis Groupe is expected to see revenues rise by 23% for 2002, following its acquisition of Bcom3 in September last year.
LONDON - Italian ISP Tiscali has continued its European expansion plans with the acquisition of the Belgian operation of its French rival Wanadoo in a £6.2m all-share deal.
LONDON - Rivals Digital Media, the digital publisher behind Cricket365 and Football365, has strategically restructured its in-house sales team with two internal promotions.
LONDON - Online sales rose by 136% year on year in the last quarter of 2002 with over €2.5bn (£1.65bn) spent by Visa cardholders on European internet sites in the run-up to Christmas.
LONDON - After a year's delay, BBC Three, the UK's new 25-34 youth digital channel, went live last night with a special show fronted by presenter Johnny Vaughan, mixing Hollywood stars with homegrown talent.
LONDON - The controversy over the top two jobs in a merged ITV company could scupper the planned £2.6bn merger of Carlton Communications and Granada.
LONDON - Nick Ferrari, editor of Richard Desmond's new London evening freesheet, has promised that the Evening Mail will campaign on behalf of Londoners and will have a distinct identity from paid-for rival the Evening Standard.