21 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - ITV has unveiled its new on-air look, complete with ITV1 logo and unified on-screen image across all ITV regions, which launches to the public next Monday.
21 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Media group Emap has rejoined the FTSE 100, proving it is well on the road to recovery after a disastrous foray in the US magazine market, which saw its shares dive to as little as 455p a year ago.
21 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Avon has signed former EastEnders' star Tamzin Outhwaite as the first face of its leading make-up brand, Avon Colour, with a new marketing campaign to break next year.
21 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Channel 4 is considering replacing its ailing breakfast show RI:SE with a morning chat show fronted by celebrity husband and wife team Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan.
LONDON - Carlton chief executive Gerry Murphy is to become chairman of retail group Kingfisher having earlier denied he was in the running for the job.
21 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin is believed to be among a shortlist of candidates being lined up to replace Dawn Airey as chief executive of Channel 5.
21 Oct 2002
Branding doesn't need to be rocket science, says Stefan Engeseth . In hard times we all find common sense a good way of doing things without high costs. If we don’t need a rocket to go to the moon, what can we do right here on earth? First of all talk to people who don’t speak rocket science when you...
21 Oct 2002
| by Staff,
LONDON – Major shareholders in ITV are calling for one of the two top jobs, which have already been earmarked for Michael Green at Carlton and Charles Allen at Granada, to go to an outside executive or for a heavy-weight outside director to be appointed to the board.
21 Oct 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Rival terrestrial broadcasters Channel 4 and Channel 5 are understood to be putting pressure on competition regulators to block the creation of a single ITV on the grounds that it will control too much of the advertising market.
21 Oct 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Reuters, the troubled financial information company, has denied that Niall FitzGerald is to take over from Sir Christopher Hogg as its chairman, after reports over the weekend that Hogg was to leave to boost shareholder confidence in the company.