11 May 2001
| by Louise Banbury
The UK's Tempus Group is set to buy California-based RNF Media, ending a year-long search for a West-Coast operation for its CIA media planning and buying network.
11 May 2001
| by Claire Billings
Troubled German media firm EM.TV is expected to announced substantial job losses with the news that its director of programming operations, Sylvia Rothblum, has left the company and will not be replaced.
11 May 2001
US television network NBC and the World Wrestling Federation are to scrap the XFL, their short-lived rival to the NFL American football league.
11 May 2001
GG-Media, the smaller contender in the media rights auction for UK horseracing, has signed up 10 racetracks in a deal worth 25m over five years.
11 May 2001
Radio 2, the BBC's once middle-aged, middle-brow and middle-of-the-road radio station, has usurped Radio 1 as the UK's most listened to radio station.
11 May 2001
A decision on the future of troubled sports site Sportal.com is expected next week, as meetings with a number of potential investors continue over the next few days.
11 May 2001
The BBC is set to announce a 105m joint venture for its BBC Film division with Cobalt Media to create a new UK film studio to produce big-budget movies.
11 May 2001
French car manufacturer PSA Peugeot-Citroen has invited all of France's major media agencies to pitch for its 177m domestic media planning account, which has been put up for review.
11 May 2001
| by Claire Billings
News Corporation and Saban Entertainment are said to be shopping for a buyer for their joint venture children's programming business, Fox Family Worldwide, for a price believed to be between 4bn- 6bn ( 2.8bn- 4.2bn).
11 May 2001
| by JENNY WATTS
The Department for Education and Employment has called a pitch for
the task of persuading a greater number of young people from less
privileged backgrounds into further education.
The agencies on the COI Communications roster, Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO,
Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters, D'Arcy...