The government appears to be sidelining proposals to ban food advertising aimed at children. The James Report on the health of English schoolchildren, commissioned by the Department of Health, called for a number of strict controls over the sale of food to children, including a food advertising ban. Furthermore, the White Paper outlining the role… Continue reading UK: Government Postpones White Paper
The Newspaper Society (NS) is lobbying against two proposed pieces of legislation. “Both could introduce stringent privacy legislation which would effectively halt investigative reporting and gag the media unless urgent action is taken to introduce press exemptions,” said the NS. The Human Rights Bill and the Data Protection Bill “will strike at the heart of… Continue reading UK: NS Campaigns For Press Rights
The UK Advertising Association has written to all 20 European Commissioners, asking them to ensure that the EC pursues infringement complaints relating to marketing and promotion issues. These are the complaints relating to the French Evin Law, the Greek toy advertising ban, and the German law restricting the use of premiums.
A French commercial court has banned the state-owned electricity utility Electricite de France (EDF) from broadcasting a television advertisement for nuclear power. It was reported that the French oil industry association, l’Union Francaise des Industries Petrolieres (UFIP), had sued EDF over the advertisement because it contained computer-generated images showing Paris being invaded by oil tankers… Continue reading FR: Court Bans Nuclear TV Ad
Miller Freeman’s dotmusic website was visited by 79,063 users from 6 October to 4 November, according to its first audit by ABC //electronic. This is over 50% more than NME’s recent website audit of 51,669 users. There were also an average of 5.9 pages were viewed by each user at dotmusic.Chris Sice, commercial manager at… Continue reading dotmusic Website Registers First ABC Figure
Granada Media Group has announced two key director of programmes appointments; Simon Shaps at Granada Television and Marcus Plantin at LWT. Plantin has been director of programmes at LWT previously but left in 1992 to join the ITV Network Centre as its first Network director. He now returns to the role at LWT replacing Shaps… Continue reading New Directors Of Programmes For Granada And LWT
Capital Advertising, the new Capital Radio sales outfit formed from the disbandment of Media Sales and Marketing (subscribers see Capital Buys Virgin Radio), opens its doors today and sales director Fru Hazlett is hopeful that the new outfit will be able to be successful not only in its own right but will also help to… Continue reading Interview – Fru Hazlett, Group Sales Director, Capital Advertising
Naked frolics in a northern industrial town are apparently worth turning out to the cinema for, as shown by The Full Monty which has just become the biggest grossing British film of all time. According to the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) the film has so far taken £39.2m at UK box offices, a higher figure… Continue reading The Full Monty Is Big
A magazine aimed at young rollerbladers has been launched by independent publishers Skater. Total Skater is a monthly title which will look at various aspects of the sport as well as interview celebrities. The magazine has a cover price of £2.50.Skater: 01491 614 999
The blatant pinching of big company brand names to use as Internet sites just for fun has come to an end, as a court ruling has demanded that all adopted trade names must be handed over to the big guys. As you may remember from a previous Web Round-Up, a couple of likely lads going… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 05/12/97
