Cable & Wireless Communications announced a long-term deal today to carry Carlton Select and Carlton Food Network across all Cable & Wireless franchises.Managing director of Carlton Food Network and Carlton Select, Jeremy Hallsworth, commented on the deal: “This agreement along with the existing cable arrangements and carriage on the digital terrestrial television package from Ondigital… Continue reading Cable and Carlton Strike A New Carriage Deal
The UK online publishing company, EMAP Online, relaunched its online ski guide at the end of last week.1Ski.com has a new look, and now also features a news service and a searchable guide.Lavinia Graham, editor of 1Ski.com, commented: “The combination of news with a comprehensive and detailed resort guide, snow reports and up-to-date holiday price… Continue reading EMAP Ski Website Relaunches
David Wheldon has left the position of president at BBDO Europe, the advertising agency. Following his resignation, Jean-Michel Goudard, president of BBDO Worldwide, will now function as chairman together with a board of directors which will manage the region’s operations.Goudard will be joined by Allen Rosenshire, chairman and chief executive officer of BBDO Worldwide, and… Continue reading President Leaves BBDO
It was confirmed this weekend that Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB is in takeover negotiations with Manchester United football club and is expected to make a formal offer some time this week. It is believed that the offer values the club at 225p per share: this translates into a cash value of £575 million.Media mogul Murdoch already… Continue reading Sky Expected To Bid £575m For Manchester United
The shortlist for the 1998 Display and Classified Advertising Awards has been announced by the Newspaper Society, which made its selection from more than 2,000 entries. A gala dinner is to be held in Brighton on 15 September, where the winners will be announced.Two major pieces of Newspaper Society research will also be launched at… Continue reading Newspaper Society Announces Advertising Awards
ABC //electronic has issued the FHM website, at http://www.fhm.co.uk/, with its first audit certificate. The site recorded 6,482,381 page impressions during July.The FHM website is part of EMAP Consumer Online’s portfolio of nine other sites including, Empire, Select and New Woman. The site’s editor, Sarah Evans, said: “FHM.co.uk’s success comes from investment in an original… Continue reading FHM Website Achieves Over 6m Page Impressions
GMTV has signed a deal worth £600,000 with Toy Options, the toy company. The company is sponsoring Diggit, the children’s show, and gives Toy Options nine seven-and-a-half-second spots each Saturday morning show.The 3D graphics for the stings were created by production company Wrench and Franks.Diggit was launched this spring, and has a target audience of… Continue reading GMTV Finds A New Playmate
ITV is supporting the announcement of a switch-off date for analogue television in response to the recently published NERA report on the subject. The commercial broadcaster is recommending to the government that a definite switch-off date is set as soon as possible.ITV says that the switch-off target date should be announced within two years of… Continue reading Analogue Shutdown Date Should Be Announced Within 2 Years Of Digital, Says ITV
The future is looking bright for one of Scotland’s top newspaper companies after it won a deal to print the Scottish editions of the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday until 2012.Glasgow-based Scottish Media Group (SMG) has signed a new agreement with the Mail titles’ owner Associated Newspapers, which replaces an existing contract due… Continue reading Future Looking Bright For Scottish Printers
Three new directors posts have been created by Chrysalis Radio.Miriam Neville has been made group marketing director at Heart 106.2, and Kevin Palmer is taking over as the station’s programme director.Ande MacPherson moves from programme controller to programme director at Galaxy 105, and these new appointments generally reflect the growth of Chrysalis Radio over the… Continue reading Appointments At Chrysalis Radio
