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Carlton and SMG in contract fight.(Brief Article)

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Carlton TV is suing Scottish Media Group for breach of contract. Carlton is believed to have issued a writ regarding an agreement over the amount that Carlton receives from SMG for handling its airtime sales.

Carlton Sales represents sales for SMG's two ITV licences, Grampian TV and Scottish TV. Negotiations to resolve the dispute have come to nothing.

Sources suggest that, among other things, it centres on the levels of bonus that SMG owes Carlton Sales for achieving various sales thresholds that trigger bonus payments.

A Carlton spokeswoman said that the disagreement concerns the interpretation of a sales contract bet-ween SMG and Carlton. A spokesman for SMG said that no court date had been set and that the company was currently in dialogue with Carlton in a bid to resolve the dispute.

The news coincides with a scramble for cash by the ITV sales teams in order to maximise any sales bonuses ahead of the trade secretary Patricia Hewitt's ...

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