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 ...
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 ...
25 Aug 2010
| by Jennifer Whitehead
Zoopla, the real estate website, is advertising on television for the first time with a campaign
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 ...
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 ...
12 Apr 2012
| by Matt Cartmell
Ian Johnson Publicity has been appointed by the UK's largest independent television production...All3Media comprises a group of 20 television, film and online production and distribution companies, based in the UK and internationally.
It has also recently set up offices in the US with a view ...
has previously worked on television programmes such as Channel 4 s Skins and the BAFTA award ...
23 Feb 2012
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
Google looks set to enter the TV distribution arena in competition with cable TV companies, with a...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 ...
22 Jul 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
Gumtree, the classified website, has appointed Beta to its ad account ahead of a planned TV