Following the announcement last week that Alec Kenny of Kenny Lockett Booth Makin was resigning from the company, Deborah Allen has been named as the agency’s new business director. Allen will join KLBM at the end of this month having given up her position of senior media planner at the Media Centre.
The Eurosport Consortium and Screensport affiliate, TESN, have decided to pool their resources and provide one sports channel (Eurosport/The European Sports Network) under the Eurosport name. The partnership is due to take effect within the next few weeks and will be available throughout Europe on Astra and Eutelsat II. According to ETN figures the new… Continue reading Satellite Sports Channels To Merge
Hay Green Publishing has sold its horseriding title, Eventing, to IPC’s Specialist and Leisure Group. The division has other interests in that area with its weekly magazine, Horse & Hound , which has a circulation of over 76,000.
Keith Donaldson has been appointed to take on the role of media research manager with Saatchi and Saatchi. Donaldson has been working with the Financial Times since 1987 as deputy market research manager.
TMD Carat is advertising in this week’s trade press for a media director to establish its Edinburgh office (Newsline 6/1). The Scottish base is being regarded as a necessity by the agency following its recent acquistion of a KwikFit Account.
Free editions of TV Quick will be available in the next four issues of Yorkshire On Sunday in a promotion deal struck up between the listings title and Westminster Press.
BBC Good Food is planning to publish several supplements to the magazine this year and is seeking sponsors to back them. It is expected that large supermarket chains will be the most likely candidates for a deal.
Glen Sullivan has been appointed advertising manager of IBM Computer Today , a Reed Business Publishing monthly title. Julie Hawes is now ad manager on Windows User , having previously been responsible for Electronics Weekly .
Mark Cross is leaving his position as media director with Young & Rubicam to take up a similar role at Cogent. Cross has been with Y&R for six years having previously worked with D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles.
Over a quarter of a million viewers now watch the UK’s first adult- entertainment channel, according to the Adult Channel’s first audience survey released today. From the study, results show that a large proportion of this audience is male, under 45, ABC1 and living in southern Britain. The service has been available on Astra 1B… Continue reading Adult Channel Gets Positive Viewing
