23 Feb 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Google looks set to enter the TV distribution arena in competition with cable TV companies, with a....
The Wall Street Journal cites an anonymous media executive currently involved in negotiations to licence channels to the service.
According to the executive, the service would offer subscribers live TV, as well as on-demand and online access to TV channels, similar to services from major cable operators ...
14 Sep 2010
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Television to the Competition Commission....The competition watchdog has published its decision without explanation, saying this will follow in a few days.
Sky agreed the deal with Virgin Media in June , pledging to pay 105m on completion and 55m once it had secured regulatory clearance.
Sky renamed the company the Living TV Group ...
21 Apr 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
WaterAid is seeking an agency to handle an integrated brief covering TV and direct marketing...The appointed agency will be responsible for handling an initial project with more to follow. The work will be based around supporter recruitment to raise awareness of the charity to a broader audience.
WaterAid currently works with Kitcatt Nohr Digitas on its direct marketing and supporter ...
20 Oct 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
PBS, the new UK TV channel from the US network Public Broadcasting Service, has hired Hypernaked...The channel has also appointed the7stars to oversee its media planning and buying.
Hypernaked will be responsible for developing a campaign around the PBS launch proposition of "where television matters", while ...
's upmarket target audience.
PBS specialises in science, history and current affairs programming and the UK ...
24 Jan 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
Car windscreen repair specialists Autoglass has appointed Tellyville, the new TV creative arm set...launches officially this month but its first TV commercial for Autoglass is currently on air.
Radioville ...
to include TV, alongside radio, at the start of this year.
Autoglass has upped its media spend in recent years and the combined TV and radio business was worth 18.1m in the year to the end of November 2010 ...
17 Apr 2012
| by Maisie McCabe
Sony Entertainment Television, the pay-TV broadcaster, is set to appoint Walker Media as its first...includes Sony-branded channels (Sony Entertainment Television and the upcoming Sony Movie Channel) and sources suggest it could be worth around 1m in billings.
Sony Entertainment Television is expanding ...
Movies), as well as acquiring a majority stake in the ad sales firm Dolphin TV.
It is understood ...
27 Jul 2010
| by Sarah Shearman
Entertainment broadcaster E! Online has appointed video advertising network Web TV Enterprise...and Wilkinson Sword.
Web TV Enterprise represents premium content from Universal Music, Future Publishing and BBC Worldwide.
Jamie Estrin, managing director of Web TV Enterprise, said: "E! Online is a great addition to Web TV Enterprise s growing network of high-quality video content, which currently reaches over ...
16 Mar 2012
| by Sara Luker
in 'social TV'....of the changing nature of TV debates and how content is created in the internet age. We will help Red Bee Media push the social TV agenda and promote two screen TV as people increasing watch TV while also tweeting ...
makers and TV executives to promote Red Bee Media products. Octopus will push Red Bee Media experts ...
05 Aug 2010
| by Sara Kimberley
The retailer currently spends 6 million a year on advertising, according to The Nielsen Company ...
a major TV campaign in the run-up to Christmas.
The retailer's most recent retained agency ...
group AS Watson, parted company with the agency the following December as it switched its focus from TV ...
24 Aug 2010
| by John Reynolds
Discount retailer Matalan is preparing to launch its first TV ad campaign for three years...months of 2010, according to The Nielsen Company. The brand's last TV ad push, in 2007, featured ...