The UK government has published a Tobacco White Paper setting out targets for reducing the number of smokers and persuading children not to start smoking. In addition, as well as a “clean air” charter, legislation is proposed to end tobacco advertising on billboards, minimal advertising to be allowed in shops, and a proof of age… Continue reading UK: White Paper published
Chancellor Schroder has moved quickly to deny that the German government is considering dropping its legal action against the tobacco advertising directive. In contrast to comments made by the German Minister for Health, publicised by the European Commission, the German Chancellor said publicly: “I have no intention of dropping the complaint”. Any decision on the… Continue reading DE: Chancellor Schroder confirms Court action
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
In the year that the much-heralded digital revolution started to come to life, media companies decided to try and get their paws on football clubs and ITV kissed goodbye to the News At Ten, these other things happened…JanuaryVery early in 1998 one of the largest management buyouts in UK was completed. IPC’s management, with the… Continue reading A Look Back At 1998…
