17 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Emap is ditching the long-running Pepsi Chart from its FM radio stations, including dance music station Kiss, in favour of its own Smash Hits-branded chart when it relaunches in the new year.
17 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The number of homes receiving multichannel TV in the UK has grown 2.8% in the last quarter, bringing the number of cable and digital homes to 11.03m, according to the ITC.
17 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Future Games has shaken up the editorial line-up of its videogames title Edge to give it a wider reach after it picked up a top consumer magazine award last week.
17 Dec 2002
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The Office of Fair Trading has cleared BSkyB of acting anti-competitively, following complaints from rivals about subscription charges on its digital satellite network, despite saying the broadcaster has a dominant position.
17 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - The Samaritans has run into a storm of flack with a controversial Christmas poster campaign, which bears the words 'I wish the baby Jesus had never been born'.
17 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Bartle Bogle Hegarty, New York, has lost out in the battle for watch manufacturer Timex's advertising account, which has been won by Kirshenbaum Bond & Partners.
LONDON - Scottish financial daily Business a.m. is to close with the compulsory redundancy of its 125 staff and return next year as a weekly.
17 Dec 2002
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - Cadbury Schweppes has added brands including Bubblicious, Dentyne, Chiclets and Halls cough sweets to its portfolio after acquiring chewing gum firm Adams Confectionery in a $4.2bn (£2.7bn) deal.
17 Dec 2002
| by Staff,
NEW YORK - Absolut, the Swedish vodka, has named Omnicom Group agency FitzGerald Communications for its interactive work in the US.
17 Dec 2002
LONDON – Short-break holiday company Center Parcs Europe has saved almost £1m in direct marketing costs and boosted revenues by the same amount after employing DataDistilleries software to improve its targeting.