MondayMediaTel’s new cable and satellite database goes live this afternoon.TuesdayJames Walker, media development director of Advanced Techniques Group Worldwide, talks to Newsline about JWT’s new company and its current and future research projects.Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers’ results are publishedThe Advertising Authority’s annual ad spend statistics are due to be published, however, they were due to… Continue reading The Week Ahead
RAJAR Insight is a series of publications from the Radio Advertising Bureau, designed to use analysis of RAJAR, alongside original research, to further understanding into how people listen to radio.Qualitative research has been commissioned to ‘get under the skin’ of listeners’ feeling as they dial between stations.RAB: 0171 306 2555
New Media Age and The Times have announced the winners of their first ever New Media Effectiveness Awards. The top prize, the Grand Prix award, went to Amnesty International for its Refuge! Human Rights Have No Boarders site http://www.refuge.amnesty.org. The site, designed by Bates Interactive, was praised for being simple, but chillingly effective at delivering… Continue reading Web Award Winners
Peter van Gelder, managing director of Teletext, has been appointed as managing director of British Interactive Broadcasting. BIB is the joint venture between BSkyB, BT, Midland Bank and Matsuchita created to deliver digital interactive services to viewers via satellite *BSkyB Launches Digital Services Company.*Subscribers only
The ITC has published its Code of Conduct on the operation of Electronic Programme Guides, EPGs.EPGs are the services through which viewers are offered programme listings and choices. They will become more important as the number of programme services increases and the technology becomes more sophisticated.EPG providers are required, by the new Code, to ensure… Continue reading Electric Signals From ITC
The ITC’s May report into programme complaints and interventions covers the British National Party’s party election broadcast. 87 viewers complained to the ITC about the broadcast. A large number of these complaints concerned the content of the broadcast, including a sequence which questioned whether a multi-racial society was “what our war heroes fought for.”Each of… Continue reading ITC Recieves BNP Political Broadcast Complaints
The combined terrestrial TV revenue for May, according to agency estimates, came in at £193.31 million which is a drop of 3.83% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue fell 5.7% year on year to £148.81m while Channel 4’s rose 2.2% to £46.5m. The ratio between ITV and C4 revenue for May was 76:24. It is also estimated that… Continue reading TV Revenue – May
On 5 June the EU Health Council met and discussed measures against alcohol-based stimulating beverages, widely known as alcopops. There was concern that the beverages are being targeted at young people and children, and there were calls for Community-wide measures be taken. No legislative measures were discussed but Padraig Flynn, Health Commissioner, was asked to… Continue reading EU: Council considers alcopops
The Larive Report has emerged from the 9 June Economic and Monetary Committee meeting longer but relatively unscathed, as the Committee decided to opt for the Hughes Procedure, and therefore included key conclusions of other EP Committees as well as several of the proposed amendments from its own members. The most damaging of the amendments… Continue reading EU: Larive Report voted by Committee
The following (unofficial) text has been created by adding to the Larive Report on the Commission’s Green Paper on Commercial Communications the results of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee’s votes on draft amendments and Committee conclusionsThe following (unofficial) text has been created by adding to the Larive Report on the Commission’s Green Paper on… Continue reading Larive Report On The Commission’s Green Paper On Commercial Communications
