Arrid Extra Dry is to sponsor Body Heat, a new prime-time show on the ITV Network hosted by Sally Gunnell, Mike Smith and Jeremy Guscott. The show will attempt to find the fittest man and woman in Britain through a series of stamina, strength and endurance tests. The deal, worth £750,000 will, covers the nine… Continue reading Arrid And Nike In TV Sponsorship Deals
Kathryn Jacob, previously ad manager of IPC’s Weeklies will take on Rupert Miles’ responsibilities, under the new position of agency sales director. Sly Grice will become group ad sales director. Debbie Bowman, former deputy ad director of the Independent, becomes Southbank group ad director. Vincent Slevin has returned as managing director of More O’Ferrall Adshel,… Continue reading Appointments
Average Weekly Cinema Admissions for May were 1.90 million. The general trend of increasing audiences seems to be continuing; this represents an increase of 9.6% on May last year. The moving annual average for weekly admissions is 2.31m, as at May. This represents an 18.2% increase over the previous year’s moving annual average.The actual number… Continue reading Cinema Admissions – May
Granada has announced details of the new sales house it has formed out of the Time Exchange and Laser. The new sales house will be known as Laser, and will sell the airtime of Granada, LWT, YTTV and Border. It will start trading by September 1.Chief executive will be Mick Desmond, currently managing director of… Continue reading Granada Announces Sales House Arrangements
Norwich Union Healthcare has signed up for a second one year sponsorship of Classic FM’s healthcare feature. The feature will be broadcast between 6.15 – 6.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the Classic Reports programme.CRUNCHIE SPONSORS VIRGIN CHART SHOWCadbury Schweppes’ Crunchie has announced its first radio sponsorship, of Virgin 1215’s album chart show, which is… Continue reading Norwich Union Renews Classic Sponsorship
It has been announced today by HTV that Cable Television viewers in the area are to receive Britain’s first live and local cable TV programming.The programme will be transmitted on United Artists Communications’ local cable TV network every weekday between 5pm and 7pm on Channel 15. It will feature topical interviews, consumer information, entertainment and… Continue reading Local Cable Programme For HTV Area
The Radio Authority has received 41 applications for the six Greater London licences advertised today. Six licences were advertised, three FM and three FM licences. In addition to the two licences currently held by Capital FM and Capital Gold AM, there are four new frequencies. 28 of the applications are for an FM licence only,… Continue reading Radio Authority: 41 Applications For London Licences
Oelrichs, a Sheffield based agency, with mainly business to business and regional clients, went into receivership on Friday. It is known that a number of staff and clients have transferred to other local agencies. It is the second time that Oelrichs has gone into receivership.
The closing time for the bidders for the three FM and AM London ILR licences is 2pm today. So far this morning the Radio Authority has received only 10 applications, although they are expecting the majority between 12 and 1pm today. In total around 50 groups are expected to apply.Richard Branson’s Virgin is among the… Continue reading London Radio Licences – Applications In By Today
WPP, the advertising group which owns JWT, O&M and Millward Brown revealed at its annual meeting that world wide revenues in constant currencies were up 3% in the first five months of 1994.Stronger than average performances were seen in Britain, Asia Pacific and Latin America; however the United States and Canada were below average.Advertising revenues… Continue reading WPP Reports Rise In Venues
