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
Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) has bought a 50.1% stake in interactive TV services company, Two Way TV, for £13 million. Two Way TV’s technology will allow C&W’s digital television service to include interactive quiz and game shows that allow contestants to link-up with the programmes’ live broadcasts.Two Way TV has been testing its services… Continue reading C&W Communications Takes Stake In Two Way TV
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) has appointed Liz Forgan as its non-executive director with immediate effect. Forgan is currently chairman of Arrowhead Productions and of Channel Earth.Between 1993 and 1996 Forgan was the managing director of Network Radio for the BBC during which time she oversaw the launch of Radio 5 Live and the repositioning… Continue reading Guardian Media Group Appoints Non-Executive Director
The Radio Authority (RA) has awarded small-scale local radio licences for Tayside to the following two groups: Discovery FM (Tony Dewhurst, 01942 777 666): a fluid mix of easy listening and soft adult contemporary artists together with locally focused speech content targeting the 35-64 year old market with a proposed music to speech ratio of… Continue reading Radio Authority Awards Local Licences
IPC Magazines’ Sporting Gun is to relaunch with a major redesign with effect for the August issue.A new 8-page pull out section is to be added and will feature a round-up of all clayshooting results and fixtures.Associate publisher, Allison Ganley, says: “The redesigned Sporting Gun has more energy and a contemporary design. It offers improved… Continue reading Sporting Gun Gets Revamp
Chief executive of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, Charles Brims, was elected president of the Newspaper Society (NS) for 1998/9 at the Society’s Council meeting earlier this week. He succeeds Chris Oakley, chief executive of Regional Independent Media.Whilst chairman of the NS’ marketing committee, Brims oversaw the launch of NS Marketing.Newspaper Society: 0171 636 7014
