.. Sue Gray of Channel 4 has been appointed head of research at Bartle Bogle Hegarty following the departure of Vanessa Morrison…. Sue Oriel is leaving her position as media director with FCO to join Mediastar, a subsidiary of Euro RSCG…. Commercial director with The Sun, Camilla Rhodes is rumoured to have been offered the… Continue reading Industry Snippets..
Carlton is proposing to change the way it calculates its station cost per thousand figures, moving from the weighting of messages by ratecard to their weighting by spot length (ie. pro rata). This would mean that 10 second impacts would be calculated at a third of a 30 second impact, rather than the usual half.… Continue reading Carlton To Change Rate Policy?
Rumours have re-emerged about a merger between Granada TV’s sales arm and Media and Airtime Sales. A report in this week’s issue of Campaign suggests that the two companies will finally merge in August with managing director of MAS, Craig Pearman, heading the company.
The Media Week Broadcast Advertising awards took place earlier this week with J Walter Thompson emerging as Agency of the Year and Bartle Bogle Hegarty being awarded for TV Campaign Of The Year. The winners include: Agency of The Year J Walter Thompson TV Campaign Of The Year Bartle Bogle Hegarty Client: Addis Radio Campaign… Continue reading Media Week Broadcast Awards
.. Publishers of Investor Relations, Corporate Finance Publishing has gone into receivership and is in talks with Nexus Media Communications amongst others, regarding a takeover of its titles…. Staff at the Observer were assured yesterday that the paper would keep its name if it merged with another title…. As predicted, Reed Business Publishing has sold… Continue reading Press News
Following intensive meetings with the ITC regarding its franchise commitments, Yorkshire Tyne-Tees Television is planning to restructure its central services at the end of May as well as reorganising the programme-making divisions. A report will be delivered to the ITC board on May 20.
Publisher of Woman’s Own and Woman’s Weekly, IPC magazines is planning to run a ‘shopper’s survey’ during July and August to examine reader attitudes to advertising areas such as holidays and motoring.Each questionnaire will be inserted into 250,000 issues across 15 of the company’s titles, but it has yet to be decided which magazines will… Continue reading IPC Shopping Survey Aids Advertisers
Digital Equipment Company is to sponsor the British Library for a sum of £1m to install computer systems, it has been announced. It is the library’s largest private sponsorship so far and Digital’s largest deal to date.
At yesterday afternoon’s Marketing Week seminar entitled “The Value of Quality Television” Phil Gullen, managing director of Carat Research, presented the topline findings of some new research into this area.Two studies were undertaken: the Carat Foretel Attention Study, which measured quality of viewing to over 3,000 programmes; and the Foretel Advertising Recall Study, which was… Continue reading Research The Value Of Quality TV – Seminar
Due to hit the airwaves on Friday, Virgin Radio has just finalised a £2m deal with Nescafe to sponsor its new Saturday morning show, hosted by Big Breakfast star Chris Evans. The deal is one of the largest ever negotiated on UK radio and will last for three years.The Big Red Mug Show is the… Continue reading Virgin Finalises £2m Deal With Nescafe
