28 May 1999
| by CAROLINE MARSHALL
Heart FM has sacked the DJ, Kara Noble, after photographs she had
taken of the Capital FM DJ, Chris Tarrant, and a topless Sophie
Rhys-Jones appeared in The Sun. Noble co-hosted the breakfast show for
three-and-a-half years.
The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford
this week begins the second phase of its relaunch campaign with a new TV
commercial encouraging people to get NMPFT .
28 May 1999
| by JULIAN LEE
ITV is to air its first masthead programme with a daytime series
based on Northern s celebrity gossip magazine, OK!
28 May 1999
| by JULIAN LEE
Talk Radio unveils its first campaign through TBWA GGT Simons
Palmer next week.
28 May 1999
| by JADE GARRETT
Unilever, one of the world s biggest advertisers, is poised to
review its dollars 700 million US media account as part of an overhaul
of its dollars 2 billion worldwide media arrangements. The brief is to
increase Unilever s media efficiency. Reviews are under way in Germany
and Canada and pitches will...
28 May 1999
| by ASHLEY DAVIES
Dave Waters, creative partner of Duckworth Finn Grubb Waters, has
been picked to chair the judges for this year s Aerial Awards.
28 May 1999
| by PHOEBE CRONK
Rapture lacks the slick finish applied to most channels; instead
you get the feeling that your brother is the cameraman and your best
mate the presenter. This disarming formula has a definite appeal.
28 May 1999
| by ALASDAIR REID
The S-word has been so central to media mergers and takeovers over
the last decade that you almost take it for granted. S is, of course,
for synergy. It s supposedly part of the very fabric of deal-making and,
if it s not somewhere in the press release, you have to take it as
understood.
28 May 1999
| by ROB JONES, managing director at USP Rad
Watching the Big Breakfast this morning (Monday), I saw the start
of a new game, called Get Fruity, which the programme is running with
The Sun. The game involves matching the fruits on the gamecard with
those in The Sun to win cash prizes.
28 May 1999
| by JOHN OWEN
Not that you d know it from most of the coverage given to new
media in the UK press (these pages, I confess, notwithstanding), but
the digital revolution is about a lot more than the internet and digital
TV.