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DMB&B and Yellowhammer’s media resource, Media Issues, is centralising most of its poster buying through Portland advertising.

Super Channel (071 418 9418) is planning the launch of three new thematic channels for sport, films and news. A film channel is imminent following the £30m purchase of MGM/UA programming . Super Channel is continuing talks with MGM for a 40% stake in the station.

Paling Ellis KPR, the healthcare agency, has appointed its first media director – Sue Wrigley.

More money is to be put into Saatchi’s regional agency network with a plan approved by chief executive Robert Louis Dreyfus. The regional agencies will be called the Hall Harrison Cowley Group from January and the group managing director Nick Bacon claims the extra investment will be in staff.

Media director at BMP DDB Needham, Nigel Sharrocks, has been appointed executive media director of the Grey Group and deputy managing director of Grey Advertising from the new year. BMP have appointed Paul Taylor and Derek Morris as joint media directors in the wake of Sharrocks’departure; the former is TV buying director and the latter… Continue reading Sharrocks To Grey

Real Life Publishing (071-482 4596) is to launch a new health and fitness magazine next February called New View. The monthly title will be targeted at ABC1 18-34 year olds and will also cover beauty and fashion. New View will have a pagination of between 116 and 135, a cover price of £1.95 and an… Continue reading Real Life To Launch New View

The RAC British Touring Car Championship will be sponsored by Esso for another three years.

Radio sales houses and advertising agencies may join together to produce a single planning system. The suggestion of one unified system was first put forward at the 1990 Radio Conference in Portugal. At present there are four different planning systems in operation within the five sales houses.

Colin Stone, ex-managing director of Touchstone Media, has set himself up as an independent; working on his own from Bygraves Bushell’s London offices.Stone Media’s first accounts include a golf equipment manufacturer and a travel client.

The Shadow Radio Authority (071 584 7011) will next week issue a revised draft sponsorship code. The new code is expected to relax some of the old restrictions, such as the watershed on alcohol sponsorship, although alcohol-related companies will not be allowed to sponsor programmes targeted at children.