BBC adds three to marketing line-up
21 Dec 2000 | by POPPY BRECH
The BBC has moved a step closer to filling its senior marketing line-up by appointing heads of marketing for BBC 2, BBC4 and BBC News and a head of audience innovation.
Alan Welsman, UK marketing chief of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) has quit the company after seven years to take the top marketing job at Speedy Tomato, the multi-access portal set up by Scandinavia-based Telia AB.
The BBC has moved a step closer to filling its senior marketing line-up by appointing heads of marketing for BBC 2, BBC4 and BBC News and a head of audience innovation.
London Underground (LU) has banned an ad to promote Cosmos new clubbing brochure because it was too risque.
E-commerce marketers risk alienating consumers and undermining their brands unless they take a local approach to their online strategies, according to a new survey by Research International.
ITV is to battle against the rise of niche-targeted channels by overhauling its day- and peaktime programming. The aim is to position itself to advertisers as the best vehicle for large, but tightly targeted demographic audiences.
IPC Music & Sport has hired Paramount Comedy Channel consumer marketing manager Cecilia Parker to be the new marketing manager for Later.
Siemens mobile phones is to quadruple its investment with BSkyB by sponsoring premiere movie strands throughout 2001.
AOL and Time Warner have had their pounds 70bn merger approved by the Federal Trade Commission nearly a year after they announced their plans to merge. Time Warner must open its network to rival internet companies as part of the deal, though AOL is expected to get preferential treatment.
Richard Desmond has sold the Express Newspaper internet assets for pounds 1 to stockbroker Seymour Pierce, who will try to sell them or put them into hibernation for sale at a later stage. The four sites - Express.co.uk, Sportlive.co.uk, Companyleader. com and Allaboutparents.com were said to be costing...
Downing Street has announced that Gavyn Davies will become vice-chairman of the BBC from January 1. Davies chaired the committee, that produced a report earlier this year on the future funding of the BBC. Its proposals included a pounds 24 digital licence fee and partial privatisation of BBC Worldwide...