The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has come down hard on ITV drama while declaring that Chris Evans in a loin cloth and female orgasm creams on ITV’s This Morning make suitable daytime viewing.An episode of Coronation Street , which featured Toya Battersby lying injured after being violently assaulted and raped, received complaints from viewers, who… Continue reading ITC Condemns Violence But Allows Evans In A Loin Cloth
Media Initiatives Group (MIG) has been awarded the contract to sell advertising on TV screens on London’s buses.MIG fought off competition from Viacom Outdoor to be awarded the contract from CrystalEyes Public Transport TV, which is launching a new TV channel broadcasting to 175,000 passengers on Routemaster buses everyday.The contract commences immediately and 25 buses… Continue reading Media Initiatives Group Sells Ads On The Buses
Baroness Jay, the former Labour leader in the Lords, has emerged as favourite to be the next chairman of the BBC, according to press reports.The deadline for applications closed last week and press speculation has tipped Baroness Jay to take over from Sir Christopher Bland in the £77,950 a year post, one of the most… Continue reading Baroness Jay Favoured For BBC Chair
There were 26 million internet users in Germany as of June this year, according to data from Forsa, the German society for social research and statistical analysis. This represents a significant growth on the 8.8 million that were online just two years earlier. Around 40% of Germans over the age of 14 are users and… Continue reading Cheap Access Drives Net Usage In Germany
Ninety-two percent of Australian children and teenagers now use the internet, a 28% increase on 1999, according to research from RedSheriff. The increase is primarily due to the rise in access points at homes, schools and libraries. The eGeneration Report – Kids and Teens Online, which was sponsored by children’s TV station Nickelodeon, shows that… Continue reading Net Plays Key Role In Australian Children’s Development, Finds Study
Future was looking bright by the end of last week’s trading. Having begun the week by issuing a reassuring statement to shareholders regarding its rapidly falling price (see Future Reassures Investors) it regained the market’s trust sufficiently to end the week up by over 75% week on week, at 40˝p, announcing on Friday that further… Continue reading Sharewatch
German television advertising growth outperformed the market there during the first half of the year, in stark contrast to the UK TV market, the performance of which is set to be the poorest media sector in Europe (see Insight Analysis: Ad Downturn Could Get Worse Before It Gets Better). According to ACNielsen data analysed by… Continue reading German TV Outperforms Ad Market In First Half
NTL, and ITV partners, Carlton and Granada, have denied press reports that NTL has made an all share bid for ITV Digital.NTL last night denied claims that it had made a bid for the company. Carlton and Granada also denied that it had received any offer for the troubled pay-TV platform, recently rebranded from ONdigital… Continue reading NTL Deny ITV Digital Takeover
Several major online marketing companies have joined forces to set up a regulatory body to enforce codes of practice for the use of commercial email and to fight the proliferation of spam.The E-mail marketing association (eMMa) plans to set up codes of practice that advertisers, advertising agencies and internet service suppliers will be urged to… Continue reading New Standards For The Internet
Future Network is to cut 140 jobs as a result of the final stages of a reorganisation of its UK business.The company has divided its UK business into three operating divisions: Games, Computing and Entertainment and through cuts in staffing levels and property overheads has reduced total fixed costs of its UK business by £8.5m… Continue reading Future Network To Cut 140 Jobs
