LONDON - The BBC and Channel 4 have called on the government to break up BSkyB and separate its satellite TV content business from its satellite distribution.
Welcome to the first in a new series entitled Fun Things That Columnists Do: this week it's poring over statistics of ad volumes for the American magazine market in 2001, assisted by my trusty props -- a calculator, a wet towel round my head and a strong drink, writes Dominic Mills .
NEW YORK - Sony Corporation of America has handed its 420m North American media-buying account to Universal McCann, after a three-way battle for the account.
LONDON - The Institute of Practictioners in Advertising has told the government that, in the face of consolidation in the TV and radio industry, the structure of the sales industry was key to a free and competitive marketplace for airtime buying.
NEW YORK - AOL Time Warner has seen advertising and commerce revenues decline by 14% in the fourth quarter of 2001, with losses for the period widening to 1.3bn, compared with 715m for the same period last year.
LONDON - The acrimony between BSkyB and ITV has boiled over into a bitter war of words after the broadcasters attacked each other's business practices at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport's Commons select committee.
LONDON - Monkey, ITV Digital's grey knitted mascot, has had his hopes of hosting backstage interviews with musicians and performers at the Brit Awards dashed because of advertising regulations.
LONDON - Troubled German media firm Kirch has offered publisher Axel Springer a stake in its film rights unit, in return for Springer postponing exercising an option that could force Kirch to pay out 462m it does not have.
LONDON - Shares in BSkyB slid this morning as investors were apprehensive about the broadcaster's interim results due next Friday, despite a positive preview from investment banker Goldman Sachs.
LONDON - In a bid to promote a film, which even before release has been dubbed nonsensical by one critic, MGM is being sued by Vivendi Universal over the linking in a series of ads of its upcoming Rollerball to Universal's smash hit The Fast & the Furious.
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