Media agencies hit out at Express hike in advertising rates
28 May 2004 | by Ian Darby
Express Newspapers is locked in a dispute with media agencies over a reportedly aggressive new trading policy.
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LONDON - The History Channel and The Biography Channel have become the latest channels in the Sky Media portfolio to run interactive advertising.
Express Newspapers is locked in a dispute with media agencies over a reportedly aggressive new trading policy.
St Luke's and HHCL/Red Cell have won pitches to handle campaigns for Emap's Magic FM and Kiss 100 radio stations respectively.
The former Carlton senior manager Ron Coomber will be the new head of the body that polices TV advertising in Britain.
Disney is launching its first wholly advertising-funded UK television channel.
Kathleen Saxton, the client development director at PHD, is leaving to join Saatchi Saatchi as its marketing director. Saxton, who is a member of the IPA's new-business group, has been at PHD for four years. She has previously worked at Sky Media and Capital Radio.
Four bidders remain in the battle to take control of the Telegraph Group. Bids from Daily Mail General Trust, the Barclay Brothers, 3i and jointly from Apax Partners and Candover remain in contention, according to reports.
The National Magazine Company is talking to Fallon, Clemmow Hornby Inge and HHCL/Red Cell about the launch of its women's weekly title (Campaign, 21 May), which will be backed with a £10 million spend.
Craig Waller, the managing director of the customer publishing company Rare Publishing, is leaving to go to Pace Communications, the US publisher of magazines for Delta Airlines and United Airlines among others.
A chimpanzee that behaves like a drunk - funny at first but turning progressively nastier - features in a new M C Saatchi TV and cinema campaign for the Portman Group, aimed at curbing binge drinking among young adults. The theme of the campaign is: "Don't be the drunken monkey."