UTV Media Share Discussion Threads

[djderry] 10/7/2009 20:32

It's called a recession.The co has a strong TV and local radio franchise along with a UK national station.When the cycle turns,so too will the shareprice.

[lbo] 08/7/2009 13:08

The entertainment and media industry will record a 3.3pc drop in revenue this year, with a fall of almost 14pc in the advertising market, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers.

PwC's outlook says there will be a return to 'modest' growth in 2011, giving total growth of 2.7pc for the five years to 2013. However, in the same period, advertising will show a decline of 1.3pc, bringing revenue back to 2006 levels.

[lbo] 06/7/2009 23:17

Satellite TV audience shares up



Some 25.2 per cent of the population now tune in to watch "other" stations including Living TV, Dave or MTV

BBC1, Channel 4 and UTV have suffered far worse than RTE, with UTV alone seeing more than 50 per cent of all-day viewers desert the station since 2001.

[lbo] 02/7/2009 13:20

Few green shoots as recession tramples over advertising industry

[lbo] 29/6/2009 11:00

Buy and Sell enters examinership

[lbo] 23/6/2009 23:05

And yet it still falls!

[aaronmac] 28/5/2009 18:59

I still find the plummet from £3 plus amazing. Still holding though...and topping up

[lbo] 26/5/2009 23:11

Compared to Anglo Irish bank it would be! :0

I wonder are FL Partners and AIM listed TVC holdings happy with the "respectable" 50% loss to add to their other loss making investments?

[djderry] 20/5/2009 19:33

Quite a respectable performance.

[lbo] 16/5/2009 13:26

Revenue at UTV drops by 14%

[lbo] 15/5/2009 15:09

UTV sees revenues slide across markets

[lbo] 05/5/2009 23:27

AUDITORS to Global Radio, the owner of Classic FM and Heart, have raised concerns about the company's future after it failed to reorganise its debts before posting overdue accounts

[lbo] 20/4/2009 21:53

Boxer throws in towel on digital



The group which last year won a contract to provide digital terrestrial television (DTT) services in Ireland has pulled out of the project.

The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland said Boxer - which includes Denis O'Brien's Communicorp - had withdrawn its applications for the three multiplex contracts.

Boxer blamed the economic downturn and 'challenges' in reaching a deal on transmission facilities with RTE Networks for its decision

[lbo] 17/4/2009 22:22

Bottom line is grim reading for our media industry

[djderry] 18/3/2009 22:13

Large director buy.

[geeff] 13/3/2009 10:54

I thought the results were ok when compared to some recent co. results,it looks
like utv directors are pretty much on the ball...but roll on an improving SP
I dont think we have heard the last of tv & radio as advertising media yet!

[djderry] 12/3/2009 21:35

Pretty resiliant results.

[1nf3rn0] 12/3/2009 14:27

2 UTV stations on here

[lbo] 02/2/2009 21:44

Discounts available as ad spending plummets



A sharp fall-off in advertising investment by financial services firms and the motor industry, usually January's biggest spenders, has resulted in heavy discounts on advertising space.

Media buyers have reported a drop back to 2004 levels in prices for TV advertising in particular, after a 39 per cent fall in costs in January. Expectations are for the same this month.

[lbo] 15/1/2009 10:51

Weak advertising trends in UK to persist.

Advertising trends in the UK for 2009 continue to paint a bleak picture. The latest 'Bellwether Report' from the IPA on the state of play in the UK advertising market forecasts that 45% of companies will cut advertising budgets this year over last, with just 20% planning an increase. The trend in the final quarter of last year reflected the level of deterioration with just 7% of companies reporting an increase in marketing spend, while 49% reduced their budgets. As expected, traditional media (print, TV and radio) have been hardest hit, but even online advertising struggled in Q408. Reflecting the environment, the FT has proposed this week a reduction in staff numbers of 80, albeit that redundancies are across its global operations and not confined to the UK. It follows a previously announced pay freeze in December for those earning in excess of £30k.

[djderry] 30/12/2008 19:17

Happy New Year to all holders and to a prosperous 2009.

[lbo] 13/12/2008 16:57

A lesson in Finance

[lbo] 04/12/2008 12:43

TV stations likely to bear brunt of downward trend in advertising spend

[lbo] 03/12/2008 23:17

Trinity Mirror are indeed laughing at the mad Irish!



Racing Post stop sponsorship of Cheltenham festival race




It will have been an unpleasant opening to the week for many punters, then, to log on to the Racing Post's website yesterday and discover that the web's most extensive racing database is about to start charging an entry fee. Some elements of its coverage - the ones that are widely available elsewhere anyway - will remain free-to-use, but the real bet-generating meat of it will be restricted to fee-paying members only.

Of course, it is hardly a great surprise. Generating revenue from the database was a significant part of the business plan when the Post was taken over by new owners last year, and in a market economy, every resource has a price. Indeed, the paper has been giving away so much free information that you could wonder how many people really need to fork out £1.60 per day for a hard copy.

But since the Post's executives have yet to decide on the pricing structure - even with the official launch of the new site set for Monday - they do at least have an opportunity to lessen the blow.

Charges will be based on the idea of a members' club, with access to such vital tools as form and replays available only to those whose subs are up to date. But what sort of club will it be?

Will it be White's - once known, apparently, as the "bane of the nobility" due to the gambling debts so many aristocrats racked up there - or will it be the Co-op? £30 a month to keep out the riff-raff, or a fiver and everyone is more than welcome?

It may seem a minor issue, but it is a decision that could affect how thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of punters approach the sport. As such, the mass-appeal approach is surely the best way to go.




Quantum physics? A doddle compared to Racingpost.com