London Taxis International will be sponsoring a month long campaign on LBC 1152 AM. The programming strand, along with other events and activities, is aimed at drawing attention to London’s air pollution problems.LBC: 0171 973 1152
The Daily Mirror‘s Website, Mirror Online, has now launched on the Internet. The site can be found at http://www.mirror.co.uk/ and will be featured in a forthcoming Website of the Week review.
Talk Radio sales controller, Tim Bleakley, has appointed two new people to its sales team. Laura Doughty, former sales exec. at The Guardian and Deirdre Lythe, formerly new business development manager at Flextech, join Talk Radio next week.The station has also has also agreed two new sponsorship deals: Tesco will sponsor a twelve week series… Continue reading Talk Radio News
A joint venture between New PHD and Partners BDDH has resulted in the creation of a new media strategy and planning agency called Media Science. Media Science will be housed at BDDH’s offices and will be staffed by two or three senior media strategists who have yet to be chosen. The £9m Mercedes media buying… Continue reading New PHD And BDDH Create Media Science
It has been reported that talks and the preparation of documents are underway to forge a deal between the two advertising agencies McCann-Erickson and the Leith Agency. It is rumoured that such a deal would result in McCann taking the 45% stake in Leith which is currently held by 3i.According to Campaign, McCann would use… Continue reading McCann-Erickson And Leith Agency Merger
http://www.itv.co.uk/The ITV Website, launched on Monday, is a comprehensive guide to all ITV regional stations. The site has been designed for the average viewer rather anyone with industry interest and as a result is easy to use and is full of info on ITV programmes for all regions.The site contains weekly TV listings and allows… Continue reading Website Of The Week – ITV
Outdoor advertising company TDI and A.G. Barr, producers of Tizer, are launching a Tizer outdoor promotional campaign for the first time. The campaign is designed to target kids’ mums in order to promote a two-litre product of the drink. The promotion will use bus T-sides in order to achieve this.TDI: 0171 267 5695
From 5 October the London and southeast editions of The Sunday Times Magazine will include a new 24-page colour magazine called New London.Editor Paul Sullivan says the magazine will aim to reveal “the London you don’t know” by giving information on new places to go and things to enjoy as well as examining some of… Continue reading New Sunday Times Magazine Supplement, New London
Research conducted by CIA MediaLab released today shows that the over half those surveyed (54%) believed there had been too much media coverage of the events surrounding Princess Diana’s death. Despite this 79% felt that the death of Diana had been covered in a sensitive manner. 56% of the 500 people questioned felt that television… Continue reading Public Feel Diana Coverage Was Over-Hyped
UK Living, the cable and satellite channel for women, is to launch a new look under the name of Living on October 27. This move is an attempt to distinguish the channel from the UKTV channels which are soon to be launched by the BBC/Flextech Joint Venture.UK Living: 0171 306 6100
