Coca-Cola has appointed Publicis as its local service agency for Europe, replacing McCann-Erickson. The move does not however affect the creative work, which will continue to be carried out by the Creative Services Agency. Media planning and buying will still be carried out by McCanns.
Channel 4 has announced its proposed budget for next year. It will rise by 15% from £230m to £265m, with expansion for every area of the schedule. The Word will not be included in the new season after the budget.Youth commissioning editor David Stevenson said “Channel 4 is committed to constant innovation and that should… Continue reading Channel 4 Axes The Word
The ITC has awarded the local delivery licenses for Bassetlaw and Ravenshead to the sole bidder for each, Diamond Cable. Its cash bid for the Bassetlaw franchise was £1,666.66. For the Ravenshead franchise, Diamond Cable made a cash bid for £1.66.
GWR has announced that it now has control of 59% of Chiltern Radio PLC; it has received valid acceptances from the majority shareholders of Chiltern Radio, Capital Radio and DMGT. Capital, which has 1,297,100 shares, and DMGT, which has 1,297,175 shares, own 37% of Chiltern’s shares. EMA, which owns 648,588 Chiltern shares has also accepted… Continue reading GWR Takeover Of Chiltern Looks Set To Go Ahead
The ITC has announced it is to invite applications for a local delivery franchise for Southport. The license area is defined as including the local authority of Sefton, West Lancashire, South Ribble, and Chorley, other than those parts of the area covered by the existing Central Lancashire and North Liverpool and Sefton cable franchises. The… Continue reading New Local Delivery Franchise
TSMS has promoted its operations director Gill Emery to assistant managing director; Ian Davis, joint sales director becomes agency sales director, and Andy Farwell, joint sales director becomes sales negotiations director.
IPC is claiming that Loaded magazine has taken market leadership in the younger men’s lifestyle magazine sector with a 26% share of all advertising pages for July issues.In an internal review of pages, Loaded achieved 54.2 pages in comparison to Sky with 44.3, FHM with 45.8, The Face with 35 and I-D with 28.8.Karen Swan,… Continue reading Loaded Claims 26% Of All July Ad Pages
Mills and Allen has replaced its departing sales director, Michael Higgins, with Paul Shearring, current group head.
BBJ Media Services have just published the initial results from a long-term study into the media habits of young people. The project, Media 2000, is monitoring 2 groups taken from 2 secondary schools in West London.Media 2000 will track one set of 202 fourteen-year olds through until the year 2000, recording on a quarterly basis… Continue reading Tango Is Most Popular Ad Among School Children
SelecTV has announced preliminary results for the year ending 31 March 1995. The financial results show a pre tax profit of £1.32m compared with £926,000 in 1994. Profits for this year were boosted by the London cable station Channel 1.SelecTV announced that if UKTV is awarded the Channel 5 licence, it will subscribe to 20%… Continue reading SelecTV Preliminary Results
