The new Rugby Union season starts on Saturday, with BSkyB having live rights to the major competitions at international, domestic and European level. This will include the new Allied Dunbar Premiership One and European Heineken Cup competitions as well as England’s Five Nations games and internationals against New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.Sky’s live Rugby… Continue reading Rugby Union On Sky
Emap On Air has now filled more key senior positions with the appointment of Karen Stacy and Sarah-Jane O’Malley as account directors. Both Stacy and O’Malley were previously in the Channel 4 sales team.Two new account managers have also been appointed in the shape of Adam Verby and Nick Downs who were previously at Scottish… Continue reading Emap On Air Announces Senior Appointments
Express Newspapers will be opening a sales office in Manchester in the Autumn. It will be headed by Nora Flannery who was previously sales and marketing manager at National Union of Students Services.Express Newspapers: 0171 921 5900
Trista Grant, managing director, of Universal McCann, will be leaving the company in October to become media director of McCann-Erickson in Sydney. Fiona Smedley and Chris Shaw, joint planning directors, will then become joint managing directors.…G&J has appointed a new ad controller in Clare Dove, who joins from Atlantic 252, while Fiona Beard has been… Continue reading Appointment News
The Broadcasters Audience Research Board has agreed a revised tariff structure after the new proposals which emerged last week met with disdain from sections of the industry.The new tariff was agreed at a Barb board meeting on Tuesday and letters have now been sent to subscribers detailing the new arrangement. It is rumoured that the… Continue reading Barb Revise Tariff
Mediavest Manchester will next month be launching a Scottish media operation called Media Vision. The shop will be based in Leith, Edinburgh, and headed up by Sue Holloway and Roy Woodward.Holloway is currently media director at Campbell Stafford and Woodward is the former managing director of the now defunct Timberbush.This coincides with the Media Business… Continue reading New Media Shop For Scotland
Youth cable channel Rapture appears to be set for a November launch date. The channel, which has put its launch back several times, will probably start as a weekend service in the Bristol, Birmingham and Liverpool areas. Production company Kudos, which is setting the channel up, told Newsline that final details were still being negotiated… Continue reading Rapture Looks To November For Launch
Eurosport has announced that Patrick Irwin will become the channel’s new sales manager. Irwin was previously business development manager at sports consultancy SIS.Eurosport: 0171 468 7777
News Corporation today announced full year financial results which showed a disappointing 2.5% increase in pre-abnormal net profits to A$1.295 billion (£602m), which is below the expected A$1.4 billion. A A$1.3 billion buyback of the company’s shares was also announced.The UK however was one of Mr Murdoch’s better performing regions, where operating income from businesses… Continue reading Profits Slow At News Corp
Trinity International has said that it intends to buy Dublin-based Post Publications for £4.9m. Post publishes The Sunday Business Post, which has a circulation of around 42,000. The deal is subject to approval by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in Ireland.Trinity appears keen to take a dominant position in the Irish regional newspaper… Continue reading Trinity Buys Dublin Publisher
