The first issue of IPC Magazines’ new home interest title Living etc (subscribers see IPC Announces New Title) will be launched at a special sample price of £1.On sale on March 6 the title will be aimed at “design-conscious, aspirationally stylish women (and men) in their twenties and thirties.” Announcing its launch, publishing director Kathy… Continue reading Living Etc Gets Cut-Price First Issue
The nation’s first sports-only newspaper, Sport First, is readying for a launch on Sunday 15 March. The paper will begin with a print run of 250,000 and will initially be published for Sundays only, priced 50p.The broadsheet paper will comprise two 24-page sections each carrying 8 pages of colour print and is targeted primarily at… Continue reading Sport First Set For Launch
Luxembourg-based broadcast media company CLT-UFA is currently considering the future of its UK radio assets, although the company will not confirm that it intends to sell its stakes as has been reported elsewhere.CLT-UFA holds stakes in Talk Radio, RTL Country 1035 AM and Xfm and wholly owns Atlantic 252. The review comes after CLT-UFA had… Continue reading CLT-UFA Reconsiders UK Radio Assets
BT is to launch Mill-e-Mail, a free e-mail service which will be available over the Internet later this year.The scheme, which is aimed at putting e-mail “within the grasp of every person in the UK”, will give users a free e-mail address and a globally accessible e-mail directory. It is targeted especially at those who… Continue reading BT To Launch Free E-Mail For Millennium
The Millenium Dome Experience Company has announced sponsorship deals for its project amounting to £58.8 million. The major ‘founding partners’ in this deal are British Telecom, BSkyB, Manpower and Tesco which have committed a minimum of £12 million each. British Airways and BAA have also been announced as the Dome’s official sponsors, pledging smaller sums.However… Continue reading Dome Unveils Major Sponsors
The Advertising Association hosted a meeting on 10 February on the issue of car advertising. Attended by representatives of the advertising industry and officials of the UK Department of Transport and of the European Commission, it examined UK Presidency proposals for pan-EU guidelines on car advertising. The meeting was told by the EC delegates that… Continue reading UK: AA Holds Meeting
On 1 June this year new controls will come into force concerning outdoor advertising in Britain. Under the new procedure, if the Advertising Standards Authority (responsible for all adjudications in non-broadcast advertising in the UK) upholds a complaint against a poster for breaching rules on taste, decency or social responsibility, a “poster alert” will be… Continue reading UK: New Outdoor Controls
In the Philippines new legislation is being prepared which will prohibit all advertising of tobacco products in print and broadcast media within four years.
At a meeting of Internal Market ministers in Cambridge on 13 February the vexed issue of infringement proceedings was raised in the context of a discussion concerning non-legislative aspects of the internal market action plan. Lord Simon, the UK’s minister for trade and competition in Europe, argued strongly in favour of strengthening the single market… Continue reading EU: Internal Market Reviews Cases
The Advertising Association has written to the UK Government to protest against the proposed consolidated text of the revised European convention on transfrontier broadcasting. It is particularly concerned about Article 24A of the revision.The Advertising Association holds that this revised article “is the first documentary and legislative departure from the principle of country of origin,… Continue reading EU: AA Protest At Convention Compromise
