Hasta La Creative!

LONDON – Kellogg’s is planning to offer 30million free swimming tokens as part of its latest activity-driven promotion.

LONDON – GMG Radio is planning to relaunch its Jazz FM station on DAB in London and the North West, in a bid to cater for the jazz fans bemoaning the loss of GCap’s national DAB station TheJazz.

NEW YORK – News Corporation has completed the $11bn (£5.6bn) sale of satellite TV business DirecTV to Liberty Media, after a $10.1bn stock buyback, the largest in the company’s history.

LONDON – An online marketing campaign promoting the Universal Pictures film ‘Untraceable’, has been pulled from Facebook after concerns about the violent nature of its content.

Simon Shaps, ITV’s director of television, is to be replaced by ex-BBC One controller Peter Fincham as part of a major senior management shake-up.

LONDON – Trinity Mirror, publisher of the Daily Mirror, has reported a pre-tax profit of £203m for 2007 thanks to the disposal of its south-eastern titles and The Racing Post, as well as an improvement in the volatile ad market.

LONDON – Marks & Spencer is to begin charging 5p for plastic carrier bags at its stores across the UK, following successful trials in Northern Ireland and the South West of England.

PHNOM PENH – KFC is in discussions with agencies as it prepares to open its first restaurant in Cambodia next month.

LONDON – Campaign has signed up six admired creative chiefs to chair individual juries at the inaugural Campaign Big Awards, which will take place in October 2008.

LONDON – The new start-up shop from the former DDB duo Bill Brock and Matt Dyke has opened its doors for business, with six partners each sharing an equal equity stake.