The Independent Television Commission has announced the licence fee tariffs payable by its licensees in 1998. The Commission has set the total income required to meet its regulatory expenditure (the cost of licensing and regulating commercial television) at £16.65m. This represents an average increase of 6% and is the first time an increase above the… Continue reading ITC Announces 1998 Licence Fees
Dennis Publishing and Ministry of Sound dance club have teamed up to produce a magazine which is “intended to fill a gap in the lifestyle market” in the form of a ‘credible youth title’. The result is Ministry, a magazine which is dedicated to the world of clubbing and its many off-shoots. Whilst Ministry‘s focus… Continue reading First Issue Review – Ministry
Panasonic has signed a £500,000 deal with ITV to sponsor a number of programmes over the Christmas week. From 21-27 December Panasonic will be linked to three or four programmes per day.The deal was negotiated by Andy Thompson, deputy head of sponsorship at Carlton on behalf of ITV Sponsorship and Andy Jones, director of television… Continue reading Panasonic Signs ITV Christmas Deal
The Mediapolis/WCRS auction for the Pepper Foundation last night raised £27,000, up from £24,000 last year. Representatives from the charity, which cares for terminally ill children in their own home, were said to be “overwhelmed” by the level of support received.
The European Magazine publishers Federation (FAEP) has attacked Friday’s announcement by the Government that tobacco advertising and sponsorship will be made illegal after 2006 (subscribers see Tobacco Sponsorship To Be Phased Out Over Nine Years).The Federation says that the ad ban “lacks a sound legal basis in Community law and clearly runs counter to the… Continue reading Publishers Ready To ‘Fight” Tobacco Ad Ban ‘All The Way’
The IPA has elected seven companies into its membership. They are:CIA Medianetwork UK Crammond Dickens Lerner & Partners Ltd Denton Design & Marketing Ltd IDK Media Mortimer Whittaker O’Sullivan Advertising Ltd The Negotiation Centre Teamworks AdvertisingThis brings the total number of agencies in IPA membership to 213, and the number of media specialists in full… Continue reading Changes At The IPA
Newsline will be interviewing Martin Dunn, editor of Associated New Media, which has just launched thisislondon.com. The interview will appear later this week.The only media-related financial results scheduled this week are final year figures from Daily Mail & General Trust, which are out on Thursday. Website of the Week will be the WPP site and… Continue reading The Week Ahead
Only seven national newspapers experienced year on year June-November ABC increases, with the Sunday Telegraph again storming ahead with a massive 18% rise. The FT also had a good month, with an increase of just under 10%. The biggest losses were in the Sunday tabloid market, where the People fell 7% and the Sunday Mirror… Continue reading National Newspaper ABC Summary – November
A slightly more grown-up version of Eat Soup and aimed at at a broader audience, Fox’s Food and Travel magazine is exotic, stylish and extravagant.From articles on Tokyo’s fish markets and sushi bars to write-ups on far-flung places like Zanzibar, this is obviously aspirational stuff. But at the end of the day if a magazine… Continue reading First Issue Review – Food And Travel
