By Stephen Foster on May 7, 2013
BSkyB’s head of advertising sales Nick Milligan and his eight year-old daughter Emily were killed in a speedboat accident off Padstow in Cornwall on Sunday. Four other members of his family were injured in the accident, two seriously. “Everyone at Sky is deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic accident involving the Milligan [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged bskyb, channel 5, family, fatal accident.padstow, Nick Milligan, sky media, speedboat accident
By Stephen Foster on December 12, 2012
WPP’s GroupM, in effect the controller of its various media agencies, is threatening to pull around £200m of ads from UK broadcaster Channel 4 (27 per cent of the total) if the publicly-owned broadcaster won’t agree to revised (lower presumably) terms when their current deal expires at the end of the month. Channel 4′s ratings, [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Big Brother, Channel 4, channel 5, David Abraham, groupm, ratings, Sir Martin Sorrell
By Stephen Foster on August 17, 2012
A couple of days ago we reported on the plan by former adman Rupert Howell and journalist Sue Douglas to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Star Sunday, a move that seemed odd in the extreme as newspapers are hardly booming in the UK (or likely to). But, under Desmond’s ruthless cost management, the DSS does actually [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, credit suisse, daily star sunday, derivatives investment, richard desmond, Rupert Howell, sue Douglas
By Stephen Foster on August 15, 2012
Sue Douglas, who used to be a big noise at the Sunday Times and then at Conde Nast, and Rupert Howell (left), one of the H’s in HHCL and then the boss of McCann Europe and the chief salesman at ITV, are supposed to be talking to Northern & Shell owner Richard Desmond about buying [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News | Tagged channel 5, daily star sunday, richard desmond, Rupert Howell, Rupert Murdoch, sue Douglas
By Stephen Foster on March 20, 2012
This is an interesting ad for the UK’s National Lottery: instead of focussing on the joys of winning it shows one of the 370,000 ‘good causes’ the Lottery supports. And the ad from AMV/BBDO could hardly be more downbeat, although most people will find it uplifting too. The charity Heroes Return pays for World War [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Adrian Rossi, Alex Grieve, amv/bbdo, channel 5, charities, good causes, health lottery, help for heroes, heroes return, John Hillcoat, national lottery, richard desmond, servicemen, stink
By Stephen Foster on February 29, 2012
This is a job and a half and no mistake. Mimi Turner (pictured), European television editor of the Hollywood Reporter, is joining Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell as its first group communications director. Desmond owns UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 of course so Turner’s experience looks a good fit. But the rumbustious tycoon is also [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News, PR | Tagged channel 5, Feona McEwan, hollywood reporter, leveson inquiry, martin-sorrell, Mimi Turner, northern & shell, police horse, Rebekah Brooks, richard desmond
By Stephen Foster on January 13, 2012
It’s very rare to see a real live media magnate skewered in public but that’s what happened yesterday to Express Newspapers (and Channel 5) owner Richard Desmond yesterday at the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics in the UK. Desmond even tells the Inquiry’s probing lead counsel Robert Jay that he doesn’t understand what the word [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged channel 5, daily express, daily mail, daily star, Kate and Gerry McCann, leveson inquiry, Madeleine McCann, media ethics, news of the world, ok magazine, Paul Dacre, phone hacking scandal, richard desmond, Robert Jay QC
By Stephen Foster on October 3, 2011
New Channel 4 sales boss Jonathan Allan (pictured), who joined a month ago from Omnicom’s OMD where he was managing director, has wasted no time ringing the changes at the UK broadcaster. Head of airtime sales Mick Perry, who joined from Universal McCann just 18 months ago, is on his bike and Gary Digby, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Media, News | Tagged Adam Crozier, Big Brother, Channel 4, channel 5, David Abraham, Fru Hazlitt, Gary Digby, Jonathan Allan, media agency negotiations, Mick Perry, omd, richard desmond, sales director, tv ratings
By Stephen Foster on June 23, 2011
Richard Desmond, owner of the Express newspaper titles and now Channel 5 in the UK, has sold the loss-making American version of his OK celebrity magazine to National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. (AMI) for a reported $10-15m. AMI, which came out of bankruptcy last year, also owns the celeb gossip Star magazine and a [...]
Posted in Media, News | Tagged american media inc., bksyb, celebrity gossip, channel 5, daily express, daily star, national enquirer, news corporation, ok magazine, Richar Desmond, Rupert Murdoch, star magazine, the sun, us version
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