The Home Office has announced that the Working Group on Electoral Procedures is to examine the commercial use of the electoral register. According to the Home Office, the sale of electoral data is viewed with suspicion and hostility by members of the public and may be a contributory factor in the disinclination of certain sectors… Continue reading UK: The Electoral Register
The Government’s Green Paper “Our Healthier Nation” ties the Department of Health to preparing “a new strategy on alcohol to set out a practical framework for a responsible approach”. Whilst the Department of Health has admitted that this is not a Ministerial priority issue at present, concern has been expressed within the advertising and alcoholic… Continue reading UK: Alcohol Strategy
Scottish Media Group (SMG) has expanded its magazine interests through the £3.1 million takeover of trade journal publisher, TAS Publishing.Glasgow-based SMG owns Scottish Television and Grampian Television as well as newspapers such as The Herald and The Evening Times.TAS publishes Components in Electronics, aimed at design engineers and buyers in the electronics industry and with… Continue reading Scottish Media Expands With Magazine Buy
Shares on the London stock market made a strong recovery today after going into freefall, fuelled by fears of a global meltdown sparked by the Russian crisis.After falling 259 points at its worst, the FTSE-100 index clawed back to show a 76.7 points fall at 5291.9 by early afternoon.Earlier, screens had turned red in the… Continue reading Market Report
In The Independent‘s ranks, Louise Moss has been promoted to advertisement controller of the weekend newspapers.Simon Cooke, previously with The Guardian, has been made display ad controller for the weekday products, and The Mail On Sunday‘s client sales executive has been poached and made client sales manager on both the Sunday and weekday papers.Steve Miron,… Continue reading Appointments At The Independent
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
Zone Publishing has promoted Justyn Barnes to editor of Manchester United Magazine, and she moves up from the position of deputy editor to replace Faith Mowbray, who has been appointed managing editor for all of Zone’s football publications.Zone recently launched La Roma, the new AS Roma magazine, and will also be handling the club’s commercial… Continue reading Appointments In The Publishing Zone
EMAP Online has expanded its sponsorship and ad sales team with the addition of Shan Henderson, formerly of Capital Interactive, and Clare Dobson, previously of Scoot.At Capital Interactive Henderson was a cross-media sponsorship executive in charge of selling promotions and sponsorships across Capital’s radio and internet services. Dobson was a member of Scoot’s corporate sales… Continue reading EMAP Online Augments Ad Sales And Sponsorship Team
ITV is to re-launch its website, and is understood to have put Real Time Studios in charge of the task. The group has severed its ties with ITN, which jointly produced the original site with IPC Magazines.A spokesperson for ITV said that there was no negativity involved in its split from ITN, and that it… Continue reading ITV Website Revamp
