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BBC director general Tony Hall (aka Lord Hall of Birkenhead, there are some perks in that vale of tears) is stepping down, leaving the job of hanging on to the licence fee in face of a hostile Tory government to ...

Former Channel 4 boss David Abraham (also a founder of the St Luke’s agency) formed Wonderhood Studios in April to offer cross-discipline creativity and content and we’ve been waiting to see who he signed up for his creative agency team. ...

Former Channel 4 boss and St Luke’s founder David Abraham is bouncing back on the scene with the year’s most significant start-up, cross-discipline creative outfit Wonderhood Studios. Wonderhood claims it will forge a new production model by “bringing together skills ...

Channel 4 CEO David Abraham is stepping down to launch his own “media enterprise” in 2018. Abraham (below), a founder of the St Luke’s ad agency, was a left field choice to succeed marketing man Andy Duncan as C4 boss ...

Channel 4 CEO David Abraham (left), back in the day a founder of the St Luke’s agency, came out fighting at the Edinburgh Festival the other day; accusing US TV companies of trying to buy UK TV assets to provide ...

In-house agencies never work – do they? Innocean in the US has done some good work for parent Hyundai (although a recent ad featuring an attempted suicide was a horrible howler) while Spark44 has yet to sparkle for Jaguar. Cheil ...

As we suspected the airtime row between GroupM, which handles big negotiations for WPP’s media agencies including MediaCom, Mindshare and MEC, and publicly-backed UK broadcaster Channel 4 did escalate to involve the higher ranks of WPP. Which means CEO Sir ...

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) ...

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 ...