The UK government has indefinitely postponed plans to deregulate the casino and betting industry, thus shelving proposals to permit the granting of as many as 25 new casino licences across the UK, and blocking the installation of more gaming machines in betting shops. The collapse of moves towards deregulation – which had been proceeding rapidly… Continue reading UK: Deregulation Postponed
In Belgium a national court has ruled that it does not have the authority to block an imminent government ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship, due to come into force on 1 January 1999. The proposed legislation was challenged by a collaboration of local government, retailers and Formula One grand prix motor race organisers in… Continue reading BE: Legal Threat To Formula One
The UK government, currently holding the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, has indicated that the EU draft Directive on consumer guarantees will have a high priority in its programme for the next six months. Jim Murray, President of BEUC, has met UK consumer affairs minister Nigel Griffiths and later expressed his disappointment that the… Continue reading EU: Consumer Guarantees
The Sunday Telegraph again put in a strong performance with a July-December year on year increase of 14% to take its sales to 887,204 while the FT grew by an impressive 10.7% to 328,793 copies sold. Among the titles whose circulation fell, the People dropped 7.5% and the Sunday Mirror slipped 6.6%. The Daily Star… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – December
John Willis has joined the shareholder board of Channel 5 Broadcasting, replacing Clive Hollick as the United News & Media representative. Willis was formerly director of programmes at Channel 4 and has recently been appointed as managing director of United Film & TV Productions. He quit the post at Channel 4 in September last year… Continue reading Channel 5 Gets New Board Member
Katz has sub-contracted its TV sales operation to Laser due to its wish to concentrate on radio and international business (subscribers see Katz Restructures Away From TV) .Laser Satellite & Cable will now take on the national advertising and sponsorship sales for Channel One , the Performance Channel and Asianet , as well as the… Continue reading Laser Takes On Katz TV Business
Following the sale of a number of titles to CMP Media (subscribers see Emap Computing Sells Titles), Emap Computing is to redistribute its remaining computing and telecoms titles throughout a number of Emap divisions before Emap Computing closes in April.It is believed that a new Emap company will be set-up in order to take on… Continue reading Emap Reorganises Its Computing Titles
Channel 5 has signed a major multi-year movie deal with Buena Vista International.Following earlier deals with Fox and Warner Bros, the new partnership will secure key releases from Walt Disney, Touchstone and Hollywood Pictures from 1996, 1997 and 1998.Films which will see their terrestrial premieres on 5 will include Con-Air, The Rock and Phenomenon.The deal… Continue reading C5 Signs New Movie Deal
The long-planned national sports daily newspaper, Sport First, has taken a step closer to launch with the appointment of David Emery as its editor. Emery will leave his post at the Press Association, where he is editor of its page production unit, on 16 January. He also regularly writes sports features for the Mail On… Continue reading Sport First Appoints Editor
The Sunday Telegraph has increased its price by 10p taking it to 90p. This began at the start of the year. This Saturday the Daily Telegraph is also to launch an augmented portfolio of supplements with the main newspaper (subscribers see Saturday Telegraph To Launch New Look).Telegraph Group: 0171 538 5000
