19 Dec 1998
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
Hayley Thornhill, Jazz FM s head of sponsorship, has left to join
USP Radio Projects as director of sponsorship.
19 Dec 1998
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
The Commercial Radio Companies Association is writing to Chris
Smith, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, to express
concern about the way radio licences are awarded. It follows allegations
by BBC 2 s Newsnight last week over the Radio Authority s award of the
east of England licence.
19 Dec 1998
| by ANNE-MARIE CRAWFORD
Border TV has reported an expansion in its radio interests in
interim results announced last week. Radio turnover rose from pounds
1.5m to pounds 2.7m.
19 Dec 1998
| by SANDRA COLLINS, Marketing Director, Opt
Mike Soutar, managing director of London radio station Kiss 100,
has been moved to the job of creative director for Kiss s parent company
Emap Radio.
19 Dec 1998
| by IAN DARBY
In this month s Radiowatch, the mobile-phone firms continue to
dominate the air waves, with Carphone Warehouse snatching the top
awareness slot back from Vodafone.
18 Dec 1998
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Carol Fisher, the former head of sales at CLT Radio, has been
revealed as the surprise choice for chief executive of the Central
Office of Information, the Government s advertising body.
Coca-Cola s famous neon sign in Piccadilly Circus has been
dramatically redesigned. Digital technology will now allow the display
to accommodate weather-sensitive imagery. XTV, the design arm of
Tele-Cine, used new video effects to simulate wind distortion and water
droplets in the sign. Weather sensors...
18 Dec 1998
| by ALASDAIR REID
United News & Media has warned the City that its 1998 trading
results will be worse than expected because of economic downturns in the
UK and the US. Its business publishing arm, Miller Freeman, has been hit
by a slowdown in the travel, engineering and agriculture sectors while
its US operations were...
17 Dec 1998
| by LISA CAMPBELL
Crookes Healthcare is backing sore-throat remedy Strepsils with a
pounds 4.5m winter TV and radio campaign. McCann-Erickson has created
two television commercials and radio ads to air in the UK and Australia.
The 30-second TV ad emphasises that sore throats are a global curse by
sweeping from a Hong...
17 Dec 1998
| by DANNY ROGERS
Virgin Radio is planning its first television advertising campaign
since Chris Evans took over the station last December. The two-month TV
and poster campaign, which begins on January 4, will star station owner
and breakfast show DJ, Chris Evans.