Karen Ward, national sales manager at London News Radio, is to become sponsorship and promotions manager at Classic FM.National Magazines has made some changes to the team behind House Beautiful. Rachel Crowe, the title’s senior sales executive, has been promoted to sales development manager. While, Jo Boffey has moved over from Clothes Show Magazine to… Continue reading New Recruits
The TBWA/Simons Palmer Clemmow Johnson merger will be finalised this week, despite rumours last week that the deal was faltering.The boardroom difficulties now appear to have been settled, and Andrew Ward and Simon Hunter remain part of the new company.The company will be headed by Simon Clemmow, with Robert Senior from Simons Palmer and Neil… Continue reading TBWA/Simons Palmer Merger Gets Go-Ahead
Amra’s regional and magazine sales house, Sales and Media Services, has been sold to Clacksons Northern. Clacksons has repitched to all former clients of the newly acquired business. Steve Cadwell and Dan Woods, regional sales executives at SMS, have been retained by the new owners.Amra: 0171 820 1000
The ITC has today announced a new revised Code of Programme Sponsorship which it hopes will widen the scope for sponsorship without the risk of sponsors “excessively diverting the editorial agenda for commercial purposes.”The main changes to the code are as follows: Masthead programming to be permitted on all ITC licensed channels apart from Channels… Continue reading ITC Publishes New Sponsorship Code
UK Gold has said that it will begin screening Yorkshire Television’s massively successful Darling Buds Of May this year.The programme, set in the idyllic countryside of Kent and featuring the laid-back Larkins, regularly attracted massive audiences when it was screened in 1991. One of its highest viewing figures was 18.35 million in May 1991.The Darling… Continue reading Darling Buds Of May Goes Gold
The Radio Authority has received 13 applications for the new regional ILR licence for the Solent area. The applicants for the FM licence are:Crest 105 – (Corporate Radio Ltd, Joseph Swain 01209 314 400): The programme will be centred around melodic contemporary and easy-listening music, with news, weather, travel and leisure for over 35 year-olds.Heritage… Continue reading Solent Radio
The Independent Radio and Television Commission has short-listed four applicants for an independent radio licence for Limerick city and county. The Commission hopes to make the decision on the successful applicant by the end of April.The four short-listed applicants are as follows:Treaty Broadcasting Ltd – Contact Michael McNamara: 0161 401 111Limerick Radio and Media Ltd… Continue reading A Licence For Limerick
The Plain English Campaign has turned its attention to Web sites and has announced its first Cyber-Crystal Mark. The NatWest Group is the first to be awarded the mark, to check out the standard go to http://www.natwest.co.uk. The Plain English Campaign has five teams checking 100 sites a day for good and bad use of… Continue reading Web Round-Up – W/E 28/3/97
Budweiser may be forced to pull its sponsorship for the next World Cup as a result of the tough French ban on alcohol advertising.Budweiser, one of many sponsors for the event which normally pulls in record amounts of TV viewers from around the world, is understood to be in negotiations with the French authorities to… Continue reading Budweiser World Cup Sponsorship Deal Under Threat
Network and regional news teams and current affairs teams will be working together in the Election 97 programming on ITV. ITV’s deputy controller of network factual programmes, Marion Bowman, said: “This is the biggest investment ITV has ever made in election coverage and we are exploiting the strengths of our network partnerships to the utmost.”ITV… Continue reading ITV Unveils Its Election Plans
