ITV and Sky buy stakes in 24-hour video gaming TV channel September 20, 2016 ITV and Sky have bought stakes in the owner of a channel that screens video gaming 24 hours a day. The broadcasters have each invested £1.55m in Ginx TV for 16.5 per cent shareholdings. Both companies also have the option to increase their stakes. Read more: Sky invests $1m in air Drone Racing League in the [...]
Hallelujah: BBC puts Songs of Praise and other shows out to tender September 20, 2016 The BBC has today put Songs of Praise, Holby City, A Question of Sport and science show Horizon out to competitive tender. Independent production companies, including the corporation’s new commercial arm BBC Studios, will be able to pitch to make the programmes, which are currently made in-house. Read more: "Historic day" as BBC prepares to [...]
Eight years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, FutureBrand’s Tom Adams says that perceptions of banks’ brands are improving September 19, 2016 Eight years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, FutureBrand’s global head of strategy Tom Adams reflects on how the public perceives financial services organisations. In 2014, when his global brand consultancy first began polling professionals in 17 countries to see how they perceived the firms in PwC’s list of global top 100 companies by market capitalisation, [...]
Magazine Country Life gets a boost from the BBC September 18, 2016 A BBC television series has boosted the circulation of magazine Country Life. The show, Land of Hope and Glory – British Country Life, was broadcast in March and chronicled the publication’s 199-year history of documenting rural life in Britain. The latest industry data showed the readership of the magazine has increased by 29 per cent [...]
“Historic day” as BBC prepares to put more programming out to tender September 18, 2016 The production industry is set to learn this week which BBC programmes that are currently made in-house will be put out to tender by the corporation. Under the terms of the new royal charter, the BBC will be required to put all programming outside of news and current affairs to commercial competition. Read more: Outgoing [...]
HSBC is the new sponsor of British Cycling replacing Sky September 18, 2016 HSBC will become the lead sponsor of British Cycling replacing Sky in a new deal . The group is credited with creating superstar athletes such as record breaking gold medal winners Laura Trott and Jason Kenny and Tour de France and Olympic champion Bradley Wiggins in recent years. "We are extremely proud to be working in partnership with British Cycling," [...]
ITV inks new deal to screen Britain’s Got Talent and X Factor until 2019 September 16, 2016 Fans of X Factor and Britain's Got Talent will be relieved to hear that the popular TV shows will not be doing a Bake Off. Broadcaster ITV said today that it's signed a new contract with Simon Cowell's Syco Entertainment and FremantleMedia UK allowing it to air the shows until at least 2019. It comes days after [...]
We finally have a launch date for The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson’s Amazon Top Gear wannabe September 16, 2016 After what feels like aeons of hype, Amazon has finally confirmed a launch date for The Grand Tour, Jeremy Clarkson's Top Gear-alike car show. The company said today the series, which also features Clarkson's Top Gear chums James May and Richard Hammond, will launch on 18 November on Amazon Prime Video, with new episodes released on a [...]
Guardian cuts extend to US as newspaper group aims to break even in America September 15, 2016 The Guardian’s cuts are being extended to the United States, with around 30 per cent of staff across the pond at risk. The loss-making UK-based newspaper publisher, which has set up operations in the US and Australia in recent years, reported a total loss of £173m in its 2015/16 financial year. Read more: First the cafe, [...]
Digital marketing firm targets more acquisitions after results boosted by Vodafone and Mr & Mrs Smith projects September 15, 2016 Digital marketing company Be Heard is targeting more acquisitions after reporting its results for the first half of 2016 today. The company, which acquired MMT Digital for £20.5m earlier this year and Agenda21 last year, today reported turnover for the period of £14.7m. Clients won during the period included Vodafone, BDO, Wiltshire Farm Foods and [...]