Tag Archives: channel 5

I see that Stan Myerson, Richard Desmond’s number two and “brother-in-arms” is retiring. The British newspaper industry had never seen anything quite like Desmond and Myerson (below, centre, with BT’s Gavin Patterson and Ian Livingston) when they descended on the ...

*Leo Burnett in the States has lost Special K in the US to JWT, which will please people at WPP Towers in London’s Mayfair, already gung-ho following a triumphant WPP performance at Cannes. Kellogg’s’ Special K is one of those ...

There still seems to be no sign of a resolution of the airtime dispute between Omnicom media buying company Opera and Channel 5. Which is odd because when WPP’s GroupM fell out with Channel 4 a couple of years ago ...

The short answer to the above should probably be: working for both. But Omnicom’s decision to pull all its advertising from UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 raises a number of rather concerning issues. C5 gets about ten per cent of ...

***More from the wonderful world of adland and its parallel universe of ridiculous pay awards: WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell trousered £29.8m in 2013, despite having his base pay reduced after shareholders moaned quite loudly about his previous pay packet. ...

We haven’t always been UK media entrepreneur Richard Desmond’s biggest fan – he started out at the tacky end of tacky with porn magazines (where he still resides with some of his TV channels) – but the boy certainly has ...

Here’s my chum Mark Sweney from the Guardian bearding WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (left) on the alleged bullying activities of his media buying giant GroupM, recently criticised by both Richard Desmond of Channel 5 and (on its grip on TV ...

Regulators around the world may be fretting over the media power that will be commanded by the merger of Omnicom and Publicis (40 per cent of the ad media market in some instances) but it’s the allegedly over-mighty GroupM, owned ...

If there’s one thing stranger than Channel 5 and Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond (‘Dirty Dickie’ to his enemies because of his ownership of porn TV channels) addressing the august Royal Television Society, it’s the maverick tycoon taking a pot ...