The long-awaited mergers of Granada/YTTV and STV/Grampian took place last week, though the stock-market was far from overawed by the news.Scottish Media’s announcement that it would be taking over Grampian on Tuesday (subscribers see STV And Grampian Merge) sent the group’s price down 1p the next day to 705p, a price it would remain stuck… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 13/06/97
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
Discovery Home and Leisure, is said to be in talks with Emap about a masthead fishing programme.Emap publishes Angling Times, Angling Plus and Improve Your Coarse Fishing, any of these titles could be involved in the discussions.
The Conciliation Committee has adopted the joint text on revision of the 1989 Directive on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in the Member States concerning the pursuit of television broadcastingThe Conciliation Committee has adopted the joint text on revision of the 1989 Directive on the coordination of… Continue reading Conciliation Committee Adopts Joint Text
Talk TV, a Granada Sky Broadcasting channel, is closing in September. The channel, which launched last October, failed to attract more than 30,000 viewers. Talk TV will be replaced by at least two new channels, one specialising in sport and another concentrating on entertainment. Some Talk TV shows will be rescheduled on alternative GSB channels.Stuart… Continue reading Talk Shuts Up
The European Group of Television Advertising (EGTA) is lobbying the EC and EP over what it regards as unnecessarily restrictive rules concerning advertising. EGTA has presented the results of an inventory taken of EU and national European legislation and self-regulated codes of conduct dealing with advertising aimed at children. A total of 53 measures were… Continue reading EU: EGTA lobbies EC over restrictions
The European Advertising Standards Alliance (EASA) has published a pamphlet entitled “The EASA Self-Regulation Guide”, aimed at being a comprehensive explanation of the normal composition of self-regulatory systems. For more information on this publication, contact: Claire Vallings, EASA, 10A Rue de la Pepiniere, B-1000 Brussels, telephone: 02 513 7806, fax: 02 513 2861; email: [email protected]
