19 Dec 2002
| by TANIA MASON
Carling has taken another huge step in its mission to 'own' live music with a £3m, three-year deal to rename some of the UK's top venues.
19 Dec 2002
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is investigating 16 complaints that an ad for alcohol-free lager brand Kaliber condones dangerous behaviour. The Trigger Happy TV-style ad through Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO shows a bus driver drinking a bottle of Kaliber while his passengers refuse to board...
19 Dec 2002
Camelot has signed letters of intent with French and Spanish lottery operators to launch a weekly Lotto-type game with a Friday night draw featuring a jackpot of around 15m euros (£9.7m). In the UK and France the provisional name for the game is Euromillions and it will be called Euromilliones in Spain.
19 Dec 2002
The latest, and what was widely expected to be the last, series of Friends due to air on Channel 4 and E4 in the New Year, may not be the last series after all (Media, page 6). Warner Bros is due to announce on January 12 whether the Friends stars have agreed to appear in another series.
19 Dec 2002
Lloyds TSB is putting its sports sponsorship weight behind golf, following the decision to pull out of its Six Nations Championship's rugby sponsorship earlier this year.
19 Dec 2002
| by TANIA MASON
The Ministry of Sound's chief executive of media, Rebecca Miskin, has left the nightclub and entertainment company after its decision to axe the media division.
19 Dec 2002
| by POPPY BRECH
BSkyB is to ask agencies to pitch for the task of promoting Sky+, its personal video recorder (PVR) that allows viewers to design their own TV schedules.
19 Dec 2002
| by MARK KLEINMAN
Camelot's £45m investment in taking the National Lottery onto the internet is to include the launch of a dedicated online channel in partnership with the MSN portal.
19 Dec 2002
The BBC aims to convey the drama and unpredictability of the FA Cup in its credits promoting its third-round coverage. The ads dramatise the sense of dread that Premiership players feels going in to an FA Cup match that might see his team eliminated by a minnow. The creative work, by BBC Broadcast,...
19 Dec 2002
LBC, the soon-to-be-relaunched radio station, is the debut client of Whoosh, the relationship marketing agency set up by former Channel 5 marketer David Bainbridge. LBC will use Whoosh's SMS technology, which handles high traffic volumes, to get presenters responding to listeners' views, votes or competition...