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Cable & Wireless is sponsoring the first-ever powered vessel bid to circumnavigate the globe in less than 80 days. The vessel, Cable & Wireless, leaves Gibraltar next April on its 26,000 mile worldwide journey.

Channel 5’s sales director Nick Milligan has had to reduce his initial forecasts for share of adult and 16-34 impacts. Milligan has written to agencies saying that, due to analysis of the first Channel 5 BARB data, he has dropped his adult impacts forecast from 10% by the end of the year to 7% and… Continue reading C5 Reduce Impact Forecasts

The Radio Authority has fined Leicester Sound £5,000 for failing to reach the minimum speech levels required in its programming.Spectrum International Radio has also been fined £5,000 for failure to observe the rules on due impartiality and undue prominence. A discussion programme aimed at Asian listeners featured undue prominence of particular views from a politician,… Continue reading Fines For Radio Stations

The ITC is inviting applications for Restricted Service Licences. Provision for RSLs was made in the 1996 Broadcasting Act. There are two types of licence: the first, to cover a specific event such as a festival, will be for a term of 56 days, the second, to cover a particular establishment or other location, will… Continue reading Applications Invited For Restricted Service Licences

The World Federation of Advertisers, meeting in Stockholm last week, has expressed concern over what it see as mounting threats to freedom of speech and commercial communication in a number of countries, including some members of the EU.The WFA is urging all governments in the EU to support the Green Paper on Commercial Communication, calling… Continue reading Advertisers Promote Free Speech

The ITC has awarded the local delivery licence for Milton Keynes to BT New Towns Cable TV Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecommunications Plc. BT New Towns Cable submitted the highest of four bids received for the licence. BT paid £4,500 for the licence; it is proposing to upgrade the existing narrowband system… Continue reading BT Wins Cable Franchise

The Radio Authority is advertising a new regional Independent Local Radio licence for the North-West of England, covering most of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and south and central Lancashire. The FM licence covers around 4.3 million adults. This is the second North-West regional licence for this area, the first was awarded to Jazz 100.4 FM, which… Continue reading New ILR For Manchester

The Radio Authority has published a consultative document on the minimum capacity which should be utilised by particular programme formats on the new digital multiplexes. This is necessary to ensure that appropriate technical quality is maintained.The outcome of the consultation will be of great significance to those applying for digital radio multiplex licences as it… Continue reading The Future Of Radio

Sources for EMAP have confirmed that the company has received a “number of approaches” regarding the sale of some of its business titles, including Media Week and Press Gazette, and is talking to one party in particular.A number of publishers have been named in connection with a possible sell, including Pearson, Miller Freeman, Haymarket and… Continue reading Interest Grows In EMAP Titles

Before Capital Radio Plc can go ahead with its proposed acquisition of Virgin Radio, the Radio Authority has to determine whether the holdings of the three local licences, Capital 95.8 FM, Capital Gold 1548 AM and Virgin 105.8 FM London, could operate against the public interest. The Authority is inviting comment from interested parties, and… Continue reading Obstacles In The Way Of Virgin Radio Sale