Legislation to prohibit Canadian advertising in certain foreign-controlled magazines has been delayed, and will not be passed until February 1999 at the earliest, if at all. Under the legislation, designed to protect advertising revenues for Canadian magazines, the government would levy fines against publishers that sell advertising in separate editions of foreign publications aimed at… Continue reading CAN: Magazine advertising law delayed
The European Commission has announced that it will pursue measures on the financing of public service broadcasting in MS, in apparent contradiction to announcements made late last month by the Commissioner for Competition, Karel van Miert that he was to drop action in this field due to MS opposition. The announcement comes after strong lobbying… Continue reading EU: Funding Transparency for Broadcasters
Readership continues to drop across the national newspaper market, with only the Daily Mail and the Mirror bucking the trend. Readership figures released today by the NRS for the June-November 1998 period paint a fairly bleak picture when compared with the same time the year before.The Sunday tabloids seem to be quite heavily hit with… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – November 1998
BSkyB is believed to have achieved its short-term digital targets by recruiting 200,000 subscribers to the Sky Digital service by the end of last year. Whilst this is an achievement in itself, it is perhaps significant that the majority are existing Sky customers who are merely converting the service to the digital platform. It has… Continue reading Christmas Developments
As is traditional at the time of year, Christmas Day TV saw BBC1 taking a decidedly larger portion of the viewing pie than its commercial rival, ITV. This year BBC1’s festive offerings drew in almost 70% of the top ten Christmas Day programmes in terms of audience size. The remaining slots in the chart went… Continue reading BBC1 Cleans Up On Christmas Day
A union of the UK’s largest radio companies is developing sponsorship packages that will allow advertisers to buy across stations owned by Capital Radio, EMAP Radio, GWR Group and Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) during international sports events. The packages will offer advertisers the opportunity to endorse events such as the Rugby and Cricket World Cups,… Continue reading Top Radio Groups Create Sports Sponsorship Packages
The acquisition of US publisher Petersen by EMAP at the end of last year (see EMAP Makes £720m US Move) has been described by securities group, Merrill Lynch, as offering better consolidation opportunities and cultural fit for EMAP than another new market in Europe would have. EMAP currently already has operations running in France.Merrill Lynch… Continue reading EMAP’s Petersen Buy Offers Consolidation Opportunities And Cultural Fit
Classic FM has announced that its daily Finance News bulletins are to be sponsored by investment bank Schroders for the fifth year running. The deal is worth approximately £250,000.Granada Sky Broadcasting’s Granada Breeze channel has created a Slendertone sponsorship for its Livetime programme. The sponsorship runs for a month starting this Wednesday. The channel is… Continue reading Sponsorship News
Scott and Deborah, together with the rest of the news contributors at MediaTel, would like to wish all of Newsline‘s readers a merry Christmas and a very happy New Year.Newsline will be taking a break over the Christmas holiday and returning on 4 January with a summary of any developments from over the festive period.… Continue reading A Merry Christmas From Newsline
Granada is believed to be planning to challenge financial forecasts made by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) before it reapplies for licences for two of its ITV franchises, London Weekend Television and Granada Television.Earlier in the year, the ITC set out the conditions under which each of the ITV companies could reapply for its licence… Continue reading Granada May Challenge ITC Ad Growth Forecasts
