The Stock Market recovered some of its lost ground after a morning which saw nearly £30 billion wiped off the value of top shares.Within moments the FTSE-100 Index was down 153.3 and it later sank as much as 173 points after Wall Street’s overnight plunge. But it then staged a rally to stand down only… Continue reading Market Report
Bacardi-Martini SAS and Cellier des Dauphins have challenged France’s Evin Law in the UK High Court by issuing a writ against Newcastle United Football Club and Dorna Marketing. The football club and the media agency are accused of failing to honour a contract to run perimeter ads for the Bacardi brand Pastis during a match… Continue reading FR: Challenge to Evin Law
Classic FM is preparing to move to new ‘high-profile’ studios in Oxford Circus before the end of the year.Construction has begun on seven new studios based on the corner of Regent Street and Oxford Circus; the building has been renamed Classic FM House and will replace Classic’s current Camden offices. All the studios will be… Continue reading Classic FM Prepares For Oxford Circus Move
Peter Rogers, chief executive of the Independent Television Commission (ITC), this weekend warned pay-TV operators against confusing the public with digital TV advertising campaigns which criticise rivals’ services. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, he voiced concerns that such attacks between the three main DTV players, Sky Digital, On Digital and Cable & Wireless… Continue reading ITC Chief Warns Against Digital Confusion
The latest installment in the irregular cricket fixture, BMRB v MRG, produced a stunning finish to an exciting match. This was my first experience of such a fixture, and certainly one I’ll remember for a long time to come.After what seemed an enormously long trek to a remote part of West London, Boston Manor was… Continue reading Cricket Victory Claimed: MRG Just ‘Nick’* It!
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is consulting on proposed revisions to its rule on advertising for slimming aids. The ITC is proposing that all claims for any kind of slimming aid must be backed by evidence of efficacy and safety and subject to qualified medical advice. The ITC is also introducing new wording for rules… Continue reading UK: ITC consults on slimming aids
There are reports that draft legislation to set up a new Food Standards Agency (FSA) with powers to enforce new safety measures and to prescribe appropriate dietary behaviour has been postponed. Many expect the bill to be dropped from the legislative agenda of the government, to be announced in the Queen’s Speech in November this… Continue reading UK: FSA could be postponed
The EU Directive aimed at preventing the creation of regulatory obstacles to the free movement of information society services has been published in OJ L 217 (5 August 1998). The Directive extends to information services the procedure already in existence for technical standards and regulations relating to goods. It obliges EU MS to notify new… Continue reading EU: Compulsory Information Procedure
ITV2, ITV’s digital channel, is due to go on air in November. Today saw the release of the new programme portfolio, which includes new sports, entertainment and factual programmes.Sports-wise, Futbol Mondial is one of the new shows to hit the airwaves, a half-hour football magazine show with a world perspective. Gabby Yorath will be hosting… Continue reading ITV Gets Commissioned
BSkyB has unveiled the Sky Digital programming packages with which it will vie for digital subscribers when the service launches on 1 October (see Countdown To BSkyB Digital Launch Begins).The service is made up of almost 80 channels which are divided across six different subscription packages. The cheapest of these, the Sky Value Pack, will… Continue reading Sky Rolls Out Digital Offerings
