15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
Initiative has hung on to the UK media brief for General Motors but lost out to sister agency Universal McCann in most of Europe.
15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
Channel 4 has failed in its bid to keep live cricket coverage on terrestrial TV after 2006, as the England and Wales Cricket Board finally awarded Sky Sports with blanket live rights in a four-year deal worth £220m today.
15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
Wilmington Group, the information and training company, is expecting results for the second half of 2004 at the "top end of expectations", beating its first-half performance.
15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
Rob Woodward, the man responsible for turning Channel 4's commercial performance around from a loss of over £60 million in 2001 to profits of over £4 million in 2003, has quit the company.
15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
Emap Advertising has announced it will expand the role of its trading team with the addition of its inserts business and a senior team appointment.
15 Dec 2004
| by Sam Matthews,
LONDON - The Cultural Diversity Network has appointed Granada's Simon Shaps as its new chairman, replacing BBC director of sport Peter Salmon.
15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
With no Champions League football last night, Emmerdale returned to its usual 7pm slot in the in the schedules this week, gaining over 1.1 million extra viewers in the process.
15 Dec 2004
| by MediaWeek
United International Pictures is using cash machines in Asda supermarkets across the UK to promote its latest film, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events.
LONDON - Foster's is to sponsor free travel across London on New Year's Eve in a six-figure deal with Transport for London covering the Tube, buses, DLR and trams.
LONDON – Sky has won exclusive rights to live television cricket in a four-year deal worth as much as £220m in total, which will remove live coverage of the sport from terrestrial television from 2006 to 2009.