Cable and communications company, NTL, has just unveiled plans to launch what it claims to be the UK’s first fully interactive television service. The operator is to distribute set-top boxes for its service outside NTL cable franchise areas, making it nationally available.The service, set to launch next Spring, is not to be confused with cable… Continue reading NTL Unveils Interactive Services
The BBC is due to announce plans this afternoon to reorganise its television news service. It is understood that the Six O’Clock News is to be extended by half an hour, and will concentrate on national and regional reports, with the Nine O’clock News focusing more on global events and situations.The development comes after ITN’s… Continue reading BBC Plans To Shift News
Women in Direct Marketing (WDM), an organisation which ‘aims to help women at every level in direct marketing to develop their full potential and to achieve their personal and professional ambitions’, has launched a website, located at www.wdm-uk.org.The site provides information about the organisation, as well as listing social events, training, networking and citing female-related… Continue reading Direct Marketing Website For Women
After the departure of its editor in August (see Newsline), the IPC title Muzik has found a replacement for the position in the form of Ben Turner.Ben Turner is the youngest-ever editor at IPC, at the tender age of 24. He has been with IPC since 1989, when he was taken on for work experience,… Continue reading Changes At IPC
ITV sales house, Laser, has unveiled its new identity as Granada Mediasales. The change of name and logo is designed to associate the sales operation with the ‘strength of the Granada name’, according to Mick Desmond, chief executive.The new branding was developed by Manchester-based creative agency, Tucker Clarke Williams. An advertising campaign will officially launch… Continue reading Laser Becomes Granada Mediasales
The EC has published a list of the national contact points and names for commercial communication issues. This is the list of government officials attending the Expert Group on Commercial Communications, the next meeting of which has been fixed for 22 October 1998.
European Commissioner Marcelino Oreja has insisted that a financial instrument be created at an EU level in order to attract more private investment to the production of European audio-visual works intended for international distribution. Speaking to EU Ministers of cultural and audio-visual affairs, Oreja described the lack of specific support to production as the “missing… Continue reading EU: Oreja calls for help to AV sector
Commissioner Martin Bangemann and leading industrialists met on 17 September to discuss legal harmonisation, standardisation and taxation of electronic commerce. During the congress ‘A Global Framework for Electronic Commerce’ organised by the International Association of the Information Technology Industry, delegates adopted a common position which will be discussed at the first ministerial conference of the… Continue reading EU: Congress on Electronic Commerce
At the Internal Market Council on 24 September, MS will be urged to keep to deadlines for the adoption of single market laws in time for the launch of the Euro in January 1999. “The complete, effective and timely implementation of directives in all MS as well as the proper and efficient enforcement of Community… Continue reading EU: Single Market deadlines to be met
Sweden will try to press for stricter rules on advertising to children when they assume the Presidency of the EU in 2001, said the Swedish under-secretary for culture, Ann-Christin Nykvist, on UK national radio last week. The UK Advertising Association’s Director-General Andrew Brown said that this was a restriction of commercial rights which would deprive… Continue reading EU: Sweden stirs controversy
