Lucozade’s current advertising campaign has been at the centre of a large number of complaints made to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) during June.One advert featuring a group of mods on motor scooters has prompted 22 complaints to the ITC. Viewers reported being able to hear the word “bollocks”, which although dimmed by the sound… Continue reading Lucozade Provokes Energetic Complaints
VNU is planning to merge Newswire, its online daily news service, with its New Media department. This underlines VNU’s eagerness to invest in online publishing, and could put vnunet.com in the running for being one of the leading online source of news and information for IT buyers and suppliers.Caroline Gabriel, editor of VNU Newswire, commented:… Continue reading VNU To Merge Publishing and Online Departments
Virgin Net has launched a Travel Channel on its website, http://www.virgin.net/, offering users travel guides, information on holiday packages and a hotel search facility. The Channel’s travel guide has been produced in association with Lonely Planet, publishers of travel handbooks.The Travel Channel was initially intended for launch in April when the Virgin site was revamped… Continue reading Virgin Net Launches Travel Channel
The BBC has revealed plans to increase its committment to live events and talent following a surge in competition from commercial radio stations which now have a 50.1% share of listening, compared with the BBC’s 47.7%.This strategy will involve all five BBC national networks and include a week-long live music festival in Glasgow called Music… Continue reading Some Livening Up At The BBC
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) published a revision of the Channel 4 licence this week, and introduced a number of changes in the Statement of Programme Policy.The changes involve a reaffirmation of committment to things such as education, the UK film industry, multicultural programmes and programmes on and for people with disabilities. As well as… Continue reading ITC Revises Channel 4 Licence
A new report by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) shows that business confidence in the UK economy is at its lowest level for four years.The Marketing Trends Survey reveals that UK marketing managers are becoming increasingly less confident of reaching their sales targets, with 43% predicting that they will not achieve them.“The results of… Continue reading Confidence In UK Economy Is Lowest For 4 Years
The sale of Leeds agency Poulter to its management has finally been completed this week after months of negotiations. In December last year Graham Poulter said the management buyout was being ‘actively discussed’ and that he expected completion in February this year.Graham Poulter has now relinquished control over the agency he founded 29 years ago,… Continue reading Poulter Agency Buyout Finally Complete
Labour peer Lord Hollick, chairman of United News & Media (UNM), yesterday announced the demerger of his group’s moneybroking and financial information businesses. This leaves UNM with only its media interests (TV, newspapers and exhibitions) to concentrate on.The demerged company, Garban, is a global leader in money and securities broking. As a result of the… Continue reading United News Focuses On Media Interests With Financial Services Sale
It is understood that CLT-Ufa’s 100% stake in RTL Country 1035 may be sold to European satellite radio station, Country Music Radio (CMR). The station is to expected to fetch around £2 million.CLT-Ufa put stakes in all its UK Radio stations up for sale earlier this year (see CLT To Examine Bids For Its UK… Continue reading Country Music Radio May Buy RTL Country 1035
British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) has secured a deal to broadcast music channel MTV on its digital terrestrial television (DTT) service, which it is due to launch in the last quarter of this year.BSkyB, however, has negotiated an arrangement which prevents BDB broadcasting MTV until July next year, giving Sky exclusive rights at the time of… Continue reading Digital Pay TV Groups Agree To Share MTV Broadcast
