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Media: A Moment with Marquis.(Ray Morgan)
Thirty years ago this very day I started my first job in Ray Morgan's media department at Benton and Bowles. Good God!
I was a trainee TV buyer under Derrick Southon. Ray and Derrick went on to create Zenith Media some 13 years later - but that's another story.
A week later, Richard Eyre joined and a few weeks after that a jolly girl who liked a pint (vodka usually) with the boys. Name of Christine Walker.
None of us had the first idea what we were doing but it was a good lark and somehow Derrick eventually got us - kicking and screaming - to buy something like the right spots at something like the right price. I was let loose on Younger's Tartan Bitter, whose slightly desperate copyline was 'Worth passing a few pubs for' - a not very subtle admission that 'our distribution's crap'.
Once I had proved to Derrick that I could add up a column of figures on my shoebox-sized calculator (no computers, just pencil-written schedules), I was promoted to Procter & Gamble. Derrick informed me with more than a hint of malice that if I fucked up, my life wouldn't be worth living.
Every night you had to send new TV schedules up to Newcastle in a sort of sealed diplomatic bag. Approved schedules came back the next day. On day ...
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- Magazine article from: Campaign Beale, Claire September 18, 1998 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Campaign February 22, 1991 700+ words
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- The year's hot media shops. (advertising agencies) (Top 300 Agencies Report)
- Magazine article from: Campaign February 28, 1992 700+ words
...It also survived the potentially problematic retirement of its chairman Ray Morgan with a smooth succession of management to his long-time associates, Derrick Southon and Christine Walker. If Zenith wins the planning on Kraft General Foods...
- Pardon quits Zenith as Grey move backfires. (Simon Pardon)
- Magazine article from: Campaign Edwards, Mark April 19, 1991 700+ words
...pair's attempted break out has spurred Zenith chairman Ray Morgan to name 10 May for his planned retirement. King is expected...replacement to head Zenith's TV department. Chief executive Derrick Southon and managing director Christine Walker are also likely to...
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- Magazine article from: Campaign October 24, 2008 700+ words
...director meant that she would be a key player when her boss, Ray Morgan, broke away to launch his eponymous media agency in 1985...subsequent launch of Walker Media turned sour when her old ally Derrick Southon, then the chief executive of Zenith Europe, launched a...
- Life and times of a media mentor. (Ray Morgan) (The Media)
- Magazine article from: Campaign Richmond, Susannah June 21, 1991 700+ words
...Richmond looks at the recently retired Ray Morgan's exalted career and talks to his colleagues...former student of the Morgan School. Ray Morgan, the recently retired chairman of Zenith...From Benton and Bowles to Zenith, Ray Morgan's propensity for selecting and cultivating...
- Hall of Fame: Ray Morgan.
- Magazine article from: Campaign October 24, 2008 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Campaign Beale, Claire September 5, 1997 700+ words
...like all good pioneer adventures) King's reward is the European throne, currently being kept warm by the incumbent, Derrick Southon, who retires at the end of the year. King takes charge of a European network which has billings of $2.8 billion...
- Zenith sends ambitious King Stateside to crack US market. (Steve King of Zenith...
- Magazine article from: Campaign Beale Claire August 12, 1994 700+ words
...now back at Saatchi and Saatchi as a TV buying director, recalls one incident back in King's early days at Zenith. Derrick Southon, King's boss at the time and the man he is going to tackle the US alongside, was about to take a holiday but was paranoid...
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- Magazine article from: Campaign Barnett, Bernard April 10, 1992 700+ words
...What you do see is a series of very senior and respected people -- including John Perris, Zenith's worldwide chairman, Derrick Southon, the UK chairman, Christine Walker, the chief executive, and Steve King, the managing director -- talking soberly...