**Channel 4’s director of programmes Kevin Lygo is the biggest individual burden on the public purse it appears, having trousered some £1m plus last year.
Quite why C4, which doesn’t actually make any programmes, needs to pay its chief programmer such a generous …
OK it’s cheap but even Mr Blatherskite succumbs now and then.
Wal-Mart-owned Asda is dropping its Katie Price lingerie range as the ex glamour model’s antics become ever more bizarre. Apparently the final straw is her current relationship with Alex …
Fighting climate change is something we’re all supposed to sign up to, despite there being very little evidence that we can do much about it. UK PM Gordon Brown announced the other day that we had just ‘50 days to …
The BBC’s decision to have British National Party leader Nick Griffin on Question Times this week, while correct in theory (the BNP has elected representatives on councils and in the European Parliament) has backfired rather badly as the Establishment queues …
In the US, Europe and Japan anyway, for which the well-respected media agency predicts a further 0.5 per cent decline in 2010 after a fall of 9.9 per cent in 2009.
In saying so the Publicis-owned company is only echoing what …
Trevor Beattie of ad agency Beattie McGuinness Bungay that is, of FCUK for French Connection fame, who’s stepped in with a donation to pay for a year’s care for 106-year old Louisa Watts and eight of her friends who were about …
Well let’s face it, nobody else seems to want the job(s), either chairman or CEO.
In the days when ITV was composed of regional fiefdoms (all of which made buckets of money) it was widely thought to be a dysfunctional organisation. Then …
Rupert Murdoch, boss of News Corporation, has been trying to form a team of media owners (otherwise known as a cartel) to get customers to pay for online news.
His latest big acquisition, the Wall Street Journal, does this quite successfully, …
