08 Jul 2010
| by Ian Darby
Thomas Cook is demanding a "signing-on fee", thought to be approaching £1m, from the agency...-on fee in return for a three-year contract award" in addition to "a reduction in agency fees currently ...
that Thomas Cook representatives have since indicated that it expects the signing-on fee to be in the region ...
, which created the recent TV ad campaign featuring Jamie and Louise Redknapp, is unaffected by the media ...
07 Apr 2011
| by Matt Williams
fees and related issues....,000 tuition fees.
Alan Milburn, the former Labour Cabinet minister who monitors social mobility for the Coalition, advised ministers to run a high profile TV campaign. He warned that the controversy over the hike in tuition fees would deter students from poor families going to university.
His plan was backed by Nick ...
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 ...
17 Mar 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
the controversial hike in university tuition fees in England....the new tuition fee structure, which was approved by the Government amid the most serious public disorder ...
to pay the full 9,000 per year. The Government won the tuition fee debate in December, resulting in many universities announcing that they plan to trebles their fees ...
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 ...
04 Jun 2010
| by Arif Durrani
BSkyB has acquired Virgin Media Television for up to £160m and entered into a number of agreements...Today's acquisition will expand Sky's portfolio of basic pay TV channels and eliminate the carriage fees, in the region of 40m, it pays for distributing VMtv channels on its TV services ...
Media's cable TV service. Sky is believed to have fought off bids from Channel 4 and RTL to secure ...
13 Jul 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
BSkyB has completed its acquisition of Virgin Media Television following regulatory approval...expands Sky's portfolio of basic pay TV channels and eliminates the carriage fees, in the region of 40m, it paid for distributing VMtv channels on its TV services.
Sky will also assume responsibility for selling advertising for Living TV Group from Virgin Media-owned Ids from January 2011.
Since the Sky ...
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 ...
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 ...
05 Nov 2010
| by Ed Owen
Matalan will launch its first TV ad for four years during 'The X Factor' tomorrow (6 November...It is the first Christmas campaign the discount fashion retailer has commissioned since 2005.
Carly Hughes, Matalan senior brand manager, said TV ads had been dropped while the company focused on: "Improving the shopping experience for our customers from the design of product, the quality of product ...