The BBC and ITV have agreed a schedule for coverage of matches in the 1998 World Cup and will not be going head-to-head over England’s games.Under the deal, BBC viewers will be able to see live coverage of four of the six first round matches featuring England and Scotland while ITV will cover the other… Continue reading BBC And ITV Announce World Cup Scheduling
The Council has adopted the Directive on price indications; this obliges the indication of the price and price per unit of measure for all products, excepting only works of art, antiques, goods sold at auction and products furnished in the framework of a service. Some other derogations are permitted.
Two of Europe’s biggest players in digital TV development – the German companies Kirch and Bertelsmann – have agreed to stop selling their TV set-top decoder boxes (which can be used for receiving multiple channels and interactive broadcasts) and their digital pay-TV services until the Commission has completed an investigation into the German digital TV… Continue reading DE: Digital Wars Ceasefire
IPC has said that it will be splitting its Specialist Group into two separate publishing arms following yesterday’s announcement that the company has been sold to a management buyout team (see yesterday’s IPC Magazines Gains Independence ).The IPC Music & Sport Group will be headed by Andy McDuff, who becomes its managing director, and the… Continue reading IPC Restructures Specialist Group
It was again a poor month among the national newspapers, with only three titles showing year on year increases in their June-November NRS figures.The Guardian performed particularly well with a rise in readership of almost 7% while the Sunday Telegraph showed an increase of 8%. The People saw the largest readership fall of the month… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – November
The European Parliament Culture Committee voted on 24 September to allocate ECU 20 million for the creation of an Audiovisual Guarantee Fund, with the aim of boosting the Fund’s encouragement of EU audiovisual production. The European Federation of Audiovisual Directors (EFAD) has recently observed that there exists a huge gap between European and North American… Continue reading EU: Culture Committee Backs Fund
Channel 4 is rumoured to be planning a digital channel based on its successful Film on Four department.According to the Observer a proposal for the film channel will be put to the Channel 4 board in the Autumn as part of a long-term business plan prepared by media consultant Hydra.It is said that the upmarket… Continue reading C4 In Film Channel Rumours
The Council has adopted unanimously a Directive on consumer credit, which modifies Directive 87/102/EEC on Consumer Credit. It establishes throughout the EU a single method of calculation of the real annual cost of consumer credit.
Today’s announcement that Reed Elsevier has sold IPC Magazines to Cinven, the venture capital group, means that the company will now operate as an independent publisher and will not be split up into separate divisions.While Cinven actually raised the £860 million in cash, the publisher will be run by its existing management team which is… Continue reading IPC Magazines Gains Independence
Merrill Lynch has adjusted its 1998 forecast for United News & Media due to ‘lower underlying performance’. The brokers has also adjusted its 1999 forecast to reflect a more conservative assumption regarding the reduction in ITV license payments that United is likely to obtain starting in 1999. The previously assumed reduction of £44m has been… Continue reading Tougher Year Ahead For United News & Media
