NTL appoints Brunswick to handle
debt restructuring
31 Jan 2002 | by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Flagging UK cable operator NTL has appointed Brunswick to handle PR while it attempts to reduce its 12bn debt mountain.
NEW YORK - Muhammad Ali has lent his support to the case of Daniel Pearl, the kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter being held by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan.
LONDON - Flagging UK cable operator NTL has appointed Brunswick to handle PR while it attempts to reduce its 12bn debt mountain.
LONDON - As the BBC extended its overall lead over the commercial radio sector, its biggest private sector critic Kelvin MacKenzie saw his TalkSPORT operation achieve its highest audience figures to date.
LONDON - The BBC and Channel 4 have called on the government to break up BSkyB and separate its satellite TV content business from its satellite distribution.
LONDON - An advertisement for US insurance giant Allstate using the Beatles song When I'm 64 is said to have angered The Beatles, who are against the band's songs being used for commercials.
LONDON - The lobbyist alleged to have fixed political sponsorship deals for fallen US energy giant Enron is threatening to sue UK newspapers for libel.
HONG KONG - The BBC's Teletubbies are to become the first Western television show to broadcast regularly during primetime in China.
LONDON - Fallon has won the pan-European account for the Speedo swimwear brand, estimated to be worth 4 million.
LONDON - The Football Association is talking to agencies about an ad campaign to publicise its place at the heart of the national game in the run-up to this summer's World Cup.
Car advertisers could face a major rise in the cost of broadcast ads if new regulations under consideration by the European Commission get the go-ahead. The EC's environment directorate-general is considering whether car advertisers should be required to give information about the level...