21 Dec 2000
| by MARK KLEINMAN
business, as it looks to offer fans new services and build the Team England brand....The Football Association is talking to direct marketing agencies about its England Members Club business, as it looks to offer fans new services and build the Team England brand.
The FA s move, spearheaded by marketing director Paul Barber, will mark the first time it has used an agency specifically ...
21 Dec 2000
The high cost of launching interactive services on BSkyB s digital platform could hold back...The high cost of launching interactive services on BSkyB s digital platform could hold back the development of interactive television, according to a group of digital TV channels that are set to lobby the Office of Fair Trading over the issue. The digital channels claim Sky is exploiting its dominant position ...
15 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
-– to competing ISPs to ensure that consumers have a choice of service providers.
As part of this concession ...
. It must also launch its cable internet service before AOL’s high-speed access service is offered as part ...
-speed access service. EarthLink plans to offer its service in the second half of 2001. EarthLink is the US ...
14 Dec 2000
that it has installed its digital service in 500,000 homes....to announce tomorrow that it has installed its digital service in 500,000 homes.
Rival operator Telewest ...
.5m homes and is installing its service at a rate of about 50,000 a week. ONdigital, the terrestrial digital service owned by Carlton and Granada Media, is set to install its millionth set-top box by the end ...
13 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
paper had been expected to redefine the BBC’s remit as well as that of the nature of public service ...
framework. It also emphasises the continuing importance of public service broadcasting in a changing ...
, the governors will continue to rule on the public broadcaster’s remit as well as overseeing complaints from ...
12 Dec 2000
| by Louise Banbury
regulatory powers and on matters of public opinion and programme quality.
The white paper is expected ...
08 Dec 2000
been delayed because the firm is being investigated by the Inland Revenue Service....LONDON (Brand Republic) – BBC director general Greg Dyke’s promise to dissolve a property company that he is involved has been delayed because the firm is being investigated by the Inland Revenue Service.
Dyke became a member of the board of property developer Coursetopic in October 1999, four months after ...
08 Dec 2000
| by Claire Billings
and interactive service it will create if its 700m bid for the rights to UK racing is accepted by the Racecourse...LONDON (Brand Republic) – Racing broadcast consortium Go Racing is looking for a chief executive to run the TV and interactive service it will create if its 700m bid for the rights to UK racing is accepted by the Racecourse Association.
The consortium, comprising Arena Leisure, Channel 4 and BSkyB ...
08 Dec 2000
High Street Kensington is a busy place at the best of times and busiest outside the bustling Odeon cinema. So the outdoor media giant JCDecaux clearly thought it was doing Londoners a service by erecting a public toilet and bus shelter in front of the building.
However, it seems the company ...
05 Dec 2000
- Scotsman Publications has appointed John McGurk, editor of Scotland on Sunday, as its editorial...- Scotsman Publications has appointed John McGurk, editor of Scotland on Sunday, as its editorial director.
He will oversee the company s three main titles: The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and The Edinburgh Evening News.
He will continue as editor of Scotland on Sunday, a job he has held since 1997 ...