The Radio Authority (RA) has received two submissions for the new ILR licence to serve the town of Coleraine, County Londonderry. The following groups applied: Catch FM (Trevor Smyth, 01265 662 242): a totally local, personality-led, music-based station painting a colourful daily picture of life within the Causeway Coast; Causeway Coast Radio (Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, 01265… Continue reading RA Receives 2 Applications For Coleraine Licence
963/972 Liberty Radio has been fined £4,000 by the Radio Authority (RA) for failing to comply with its promise of performance, for breaches of the Authority’s programme code and for failing to supply tapes of the station’s output to the RA.Authority checks on the London station found that speech levels fell below the 50% level… Continue reading Liberty Radio Fined £4,000 By Radio Authority
The Commission has decided to pursue proceedings against the German government over its restrictions on sales promotions in connection with an Article 169 complaint by PolyGram. The accusation is that German rules on discounting are blocking the free provision of advertising services in the EU single market. The Commission will send Germany a reasoned opinion… Continue reading EU: PolyGram case proceeds
The German government is to initiate legal proceedings against the Tobacco Advertising Directive, which will ban all forms of tobacco advertising and sponsorship by October 2006, and which was formally approved by the Council of Ministers on 22 June. The Austrian government is also understood to be considering similar action. MS have three years in… Continue reading DE: Fierce opposition to Directive
The Independent Television Commission in the UK will from 1 August relax the timing restrictions concerning the advertising of sanitary protection products. The effect of the new regulation will be to permit the advertising of such products in and around all programmes except children’s and other programmes which have a particular appear to young people… Continue reading UK: Sanitary protection rules eased
The Department of Trade and Industry in the UK has called for comments on the EU Distance Selling Directive following the publication of a consultation document. The Directive is due to become law by 4 June 2000. The DTI invites interested parties to consider how each section of the law could operate and seeks opinions… Continue reading UK: Distance selling consultation
The Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail Ltd. has joined the Newspaper Society’s marketing arm, NS Marketing. NS Marketing offers titles marketing support services.Managing director Mark Hollinshead, said: “We’ve been impressed by the work and growing value of NS Marketing, and see the benefit of networking, research, information and promotional support they provide.” The company… Continue reading Scottish Daily Record Joins NS Marketing
The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has held a one day public hearing on copyright in the information society at which fourteen invited experts – representing the main groupings affected by the Directive, such as publishers, artists, radio and television producers, software manufacturers, film-makers, the record industry and libraries – spoke on the proposal for… Continue reading EU: Copyright Directive public hearing
Consumers are increasingly wishing to buy their television and telephone services from a single provider, according to new research from US group J D Power and Associates.This is good news for cable companies, such as Telewest and Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), which provide both multi-channel TV and a telephone service. For fixed line providers,… Continue reading Consumers Want Television And Telephone Services From One Provider, Says Report
The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee has adopted (unopposed) the report by Gerhard Schmid (PES, D) on a plan to promote safe use of the Internet. It aims to encourage an environment favourable to the development of the Internet industry while promoting safer use of the Internet, and to complement other EU-funded measures dealing with… Continue reading EU: Safe use of the Internet
