All articles by Kate Bulkley – Page 20
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CommentMedia Money: Why is Sony embarking on a buying spree?
Sony Pictures Television International has been on a buying spree recently and it's set to continue.
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CommentMedia money: Why have the bosses of two major kids TV companies resigned in the space of a month?
You could be forgiven for thinking the kids market is a bloodbath after February saw Entertainment Rights chief executive Mike Heap step down to “pursue other interests” and Hit Entertainment boss Bruce Steinberg replaced to make way for a US-based executive.
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CommentMedia money: Is there another route for indie diversification?
There are various ways independent producers can grow quickly: win more commissions, buy other indies, increase their production genres or add distribution assets.
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CommentMedia money: Why should the TV world care that AOL is buying Bebo?
AOL is spending $850m buying Bebo because it believes the social networking site has discovered the magic formula of becoming a money-spinning powerhouse.
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CommentMedia money: What is the future for PSB on DTT?
This week Ofcom chief exec Ed Richards is talking about the next phase of its Public Service Broadcasting Review and Channel 4's Andy Duncan is setting out his vision for the future. But it seems to me that a crucial public service is ensuring there is a reasonable amount of ...
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CommentMedia money: Will the Hamilton effect be good for ITV?
The ITV Sport team certainly scored when it signed Sony to an estimated£3m sponsorship deal for its 2008 Formula 1 motor racing season coverage, featuring the wunderkind Lewis Hamilton.
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NewsShaps' legacy is falling CRR ratchet
Simon Shaps' legacy at ITV is a much-reduced CRR ratchet for advertisers in 2008 after he helped the channel outperform its commercial rivals' audience share last year.
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CommentMedia Money: How is the succession race shaping up at ITV?
I picked up the paper the other day to see Russia's two leading politicians pretending to be rock stars. Messrs Putin and Medvedev were glammed up, sending out the message to the masses that all is well.
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CommentMedia Money: Are senior changes afoot at Virgin Media?
The latest results from the UK's only cable TV operator showed a welcome drop in the number of subscribers who have turned off the service (disconnection or churn fell to 1.4%, down from 1.7% in the previous quarter) but the company reported higher losses overall and lower average revenue per ...
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CommentMedia Money: What is the big news about small indies?
The new Pact/KPMG Indie Census is an impressive document full of pie charts and bar graphs that show the independent TV sector is now worth£2.14bn in revenues.
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CommentMedia Money: What does iPlayer's success tell us?
The naysayers used to claim that watching TV on a PC would never catch on. Well, they're eating fibre-optic humble pie now. Not only is iPlayer pulling in the punters with increasing velocity, it is also giving some shows an audience boost that the BBC is calling the “10% effect”.
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CommentMedia Money: Is Strictly Come Anything a good idea?
I spent an evening last week at the O2 Arena watching the massively impressive Strictly Come Dancing live show and returned home thinking about what makes a good, exploitable multiplatform format as I drifted off to sleep.
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CommentMedia Money: What would UKTV be worth if it went on the market?
UKTV is one of those jewels in the channel landscape that goes under the radar. But after the recent ratings success of renaming the lacklustre UKTV G2 as the more viewer-friendly Dave, and with 50% shareholder Virgin Media TV talking about scaling back its content business, questions are being asked ...
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CommentMedia Money: What is Virgin Media's strategy now?
To be content-led or not to be content-led? That was the question for Virgin Media's acting chief executive, Neil Berkett, but he seemed to answer it quite definitively last week when he said that the cable company, which less than 18 months ago made a bid for ITV, is now ...
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CommentMedia Money: How big a deal is time-shifted viewing?
The extent of the cudgelling of traditional TV advertising by the PVR has been debated ad nauseam: is the PVR the death of the 30-second spot? The jury is still out, but some new facts about the power of time-shifted viewing make for interesting reading.
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CommentMedia Money: Why should TV folk care about Microsoft's $43bn bid to buy Yahoo?
Size has always been important in the TV world - particularly audience size. The same is true online, but with an additional complication: attaching revenue is a bit trickier than simply selling a 30-second spot.
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CommentMedia Money: What implications are there of BBC Worldwide buying stakes in indies?
The traditional power of the broadcaster is changing.
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CommentMedia Money: Why has ITV snapped up a deal with Pedigree?
It's difficult to be a fan of advertiser-funded programming.
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CommentMedia Money: What is the best way out for ER?
When Entertainment Rights (ER) revealed a cock-up by a third-party supplier of DVDs earlier this month it resulted in slashed expected revenue and profit figures.
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CommentWhat's all this brand business got to do with the BBC?
It's not just shampoo and washing powder that have brands any more.