The Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizens’ Rights has adopted a report by Georgios Anastassopoulos (EPP, Gr) – the European Parliament vice-president – on the legal protection of encrypted broadcasting or re-broadcasting, described in the proposal for a Directive as “services based on, or consisting of, conditional access”. Both the Rapporteur and Committee took the… Continue reading EU: Protection for encrypted broadcasts
Classic FM has signed a new sponsorship deal with coffee maker Douwe Egberts. Throughout the Summer, from mid-May to September, Douwe Egberts will sponsor on-air promotion of the Classic FM Douwe Egberts Summer Music Festival – a series of outdoor concerts held at stately homes around the country.The deal includes sponsorship five times a day… Continue reading Classic FM In Sponsorship Deal
The Independent Television Commission, which regulates commercial television broadcasting in the UK, is to permit “masthead” programming on analogue terrestrial television, as a result of pressure from publishers and their representative organisations. Such broadcasting, which allows well-established media brands in publishing to extend their brands into the arena of TV, is already permitted in the… Continue reading UK: ITC permits masthead broadcasting
The Advertising Association is launching a new publication, the Commercial Communications Compendium, a 140-page loose-leaf document which summarises and explains all EU legislation affecting advertising, marketing and other commercial communications in Europe. Contact Jocie Maker at the AA on 00 44 171 828 2771 for further details and placing orders.
Alcohol Concern, the major lobby against alcohol abuse in the UK, has started a project to draw up proposals for a national alcohol strategy for England. It will be seeking opinions from several individuals and bodies. The proposals “will encompass a broad range of policy areas, including the control of supply and demand, changing perceptions… Continue reading UK: Alcohol investigation
The 23 April Consumer Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg under the chairmanship of Nigel Griffiths, UK secretary of state for consumer affairs, reached agreement on a Common Position on the sale and guarantee of consumer goods. The Directive – which aims at ensuring that EU consumers have a uniform degree of protection when faulty goods… Continue reading EU: Majority support for Directive
http://www.ticketmaster.co.ukSelling entertainment over the web is currently the place to be. Anything relatively cheap, which can be easily searched for by users and posted out to their homes is perfect for a transactional site on the internet. Indeed, a recent survey claimed that the number of transactional websites would grow by over 900% in the… Continue reading Website Of The Week – Ticketmaster
Andrew Chowns believes that the launch of ITV2, ITV’s digital terrestrial channel, will be an opportunity for advertisers to reach an audience ITV would die for – young, predominantly upmarket male light viewers who are interested in sport, music and light entertainment.The question is, however, will the channel merely end up as a barely-watched, poor… Continue reading Interview – Andrew Chowns, ITV2 Project Director
Continuing to draw on the success of its football coverage, Channel 5 has won the exclusive rights to broadcast Liverpool and Chelsea’s European football campaigns.The channel covered all of Chelsea’s games in their run-up to victory in this year’s Cup Winners’ Cup. In fact, the club’s game against Real Betis gave Channel 5 its largest… Continue reading Channel 5 Continues Its Soccer Success
At the recent European Audiovisual Conference in Birmingham, UK, delegates heard broadcasting industry executives call upon the EU’s political leadership to accelerate the move from analogue to digital broadcasting. The Association of Commercial Television (ACT) issued a statement warning that the convergence of various forms of electronic media requires an urgent and thorough overhaul of… Continue reading UK: Birmingham Audiovisual Conference
