LONDON - Uefa, European football's governing body, is to allow live coverage of Championship League and Uefa Cup matches to be screened via the internet.
31 Oct 2006
| by by Sarah Woods
LONDON - Apple is understood to be on the brink of launching its long-awaited 'iPhone', which would combine a mobile phone with iTunes downloads and Apple's internet TV service.
31 Oct 2006
| by by Staff
LONDON - Pepsi Cola is launching a branded channel on YouTube to promote Pepsi Max.
LONDON - Guardian Unlimited is to run three exclusive Ricky Gervais podcasts to coincide with Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, featuring writing partner Stephen Merchant and Xfm radio producer Karl Pilkington.
31 Oct 2006
| by by Ian Quinn
LONDON - The UK's most powerful sales operation is to undergo a major facelift, with ITV Sales yesterday announcing it is to drop the word "sales" from its title, and restructure to shift its focus from negotiations to planning.
31 Oct 2006
| by by Elizabeth Barrett
LONDON - Aegis-owned media agency Carat has retained the £150m European media planning and buying brief for computer giant Dell following a two-way pitch with a network bid from the Omnicom media group.
LONDON - Virgin Radio has splashed posters across London and the South quoting former Capital Radio breakfast DJ Chris Tarrant telling Virgin host Christian O'Connell how good his show is.
31 Oct 2006
| by Media Week
Hugo Drayton, former managing director of Telegraph Group and Advertising.com, has joined online marketing and advertising services company 121Media.
31 Oct 2006
| by Olivia Solon
Growth in the TV advertising market is being stifled by the contract rights renewal (CRR) system, which regulates the price of airtime on ITV, according to UBS, one of the UK's largest investment banks.
31 Oct 2006
| by Robin Parker
SMD Publishing is to close monthly film magazine Hotdog unless it can find a buyer for the title, less than a year after it bought it from Highbury and just weeks after its latest relaunch.