ITV has revealed the details of the second proposal it put to the ITC in the hope of improving news audiences. The proposal, which included an increased budget, was once again rejected yesterday (see ITC Tells ITV To Bring Forward Nightly News) as the ITC stuck to its guns and said the broadcaster must move… Continue reading ITV Reveals The Measures That Weren’t Enough For The ITC
Programmes May comes along and the viewers start melting away quicker than England’s back four. With a dearth of decent new programmes in the schedules, terrestrial television is beginning to rival UK Gold with its output. In times of crisis programme makers always rely on the safe tried and tested programmes to grab big audience… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – May 2000
Talk of a court battle between ITV and the Independent Television Commission (ITC) was in the air today after the industry watchdog told the broadcaster to move its Nightly News programme to an earlier slot. The culmination of a year-long tussle between the two, provoked by slumping audience figures for national and regional news on… Continue reading ITV’s Battle With The ITC Could End In Court
Designer feathers have been ruffled in the editorial offices of UK style bibles by claims that self-regulation will result from Tessa Jowell’s “Body Image Summit”. A terse open letter has been released by the editors of some of the top fashion magazines denying that any such commitment had been made.Yesterday press coverage of the summit,… Continue reading Editors Deny Self-Regulating Body To Be Established
Telewest shares suffered along with other telecommunications companies yesterday, dropping 14p to £2.78. Cable & Wireless managed to buck the trend following news that it had received clearance from the government to dispose of its Hong Kong Business (see Sharewatch). Shares ended up 19p at £12.06.Pearson shares fell £1.40 yesterday, to end at £20.87. This… Continue reading Sharewatch
Natmags is to team up with the owners of the second most visited women’s portal in the US, www.women.com to launch a version in the UK. The site, www.uk.women.com will include content from Natmag brands including Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan and will be up against existing women’s web offerings like IPC’s www.beme.com and Daily Mail… Continue reading Launches Brief
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has told ITV to move its Nightly News programme to an earlier slot after it “unanimously rejected” the network’s proposals to improve audience figures for its evening news output. The regulator told ITV it could not accept its suggestions for additional investment in the 9pm-11pm peaktime period unless it scheduled… Continue reading ITC Tells ITV To Bring Forward Nightly News
NTL is continuing its football buying spree with the purchase of internet rights for Football League games. In a joint venture with the league the cable group will create an internet portal for all 72 clubs who wish to participate.The group will pay rights fees of up to £65m over five years and will share… Continue reading NTL Bags Football League Net Rights
A secret new project at IPC Media has lured Tessa Hilton from her position as editor-at-large at Women & Home. The only detail revealed about the launch so far is that it will be aimed at the “older” women, an increasingly crowded market (see Feature: Middle Youth Sector Strains As Two More Titles Plan To… Continue reading Appointments Brief
The fashion press may create its own self-regulatory body to monitor images of thin women in magazines and newspapers and even stop advertisers placing copy which shows “unnatural” body shapes. The proposal came out of yesterday’s “Body Image Summit”, organised by Minister for Women Tessa Jowell. The Broadcasting Standards Commission has also offered to play… Continue reading Fash Mags To Ban Waifs Following Body Image Summit
