AOL Time Warner in talks with NTL
30 Apr 2001 | by Claire Billings
AOL Time Warner is in talks with UK cable operator NTL in a deal that could see the US media and internet giant’s content carried on NTL’s pan-European high-speed cable network.
Online directory service Scoot.com is considering a break-up of the company and a sell-off of parts of the business, unless it receives a better offer than Friday’s 15p-a-share takeover bid from Vivendi Universal.
AOL Time Warner is in talks with UK cable operator NTL in a deal that could see the US media and internet giant’s content carried on NTL’s pan-European high-speed cable network.
Go Racing is expected to reveal this week that it has won the battle to secure the TV and digital rights to UK horseracing, which will see it broadcast from all but nine of the country’s racetracks.
In an effort to stem falling sales, the British pea is to be promoted in a new advertising campaign which will seek to bring people back to the UK’s once most-popular vegetable.
Fast-food giant McDonald’s has appointed Tribal DDB as its agency of record to handle its US interactive account.
Channel 4 is to approach City investors to raise money to finance an ambitious expansion into new media.
Red Herring Communications, the company that owns new-economy magazine Red Herring, has been touting itself to rivals Ziff Davis and AOL Time Warner’s publishing company Time, according to reports.
The Virgin Group and transport company Stagecoach are seeking to attract new investors to their jointly owned online booking service TheTrainline.com and are understood talking to be in talks with a number of potential companies.
Euro RSCG Worldwide New York, a unit of Havas Advertising, has hired trend forecasting and brand consulting experts Ira Matathia and Marian Salzman to generate creative ideas based on research into consumer behaviour and market trends.
Tesco is to take its online grocery shopping service on to ONdigital’s internet TV service in a move that sees it shun the more expensive BSkyB rival Open.