The broadcasting experts who met in Amsterdam on 17/18 February made some key recommendations on the EU treaty reforms needed in order to respond to the new challenges in the European audiovisual industry. They stressed the importance of universal access to and share in the information society. Public service broadcasting is seen as having distinctive… Continue reading Eu: Public Service Broadcasting
EU telecoms ministers on 7 March agreed new rules governing basic voice telephone operations and the licensing of private telephone providers. The agreement establishes that certain services are “universal” and must therefore stay affordable, such as regular phone and fax lines, directory research services and free emergency calls from public pay phones.
EC Commissioner Karel van Miert has stated that Flemish legislation on radio advertising represents a monopoly, and requires modification.
The ITC has received two applications to run Channel 5’s text service. Sky Five Text, jointly owned by BSkyB and Channel 5 Text, has bid £1.5 million and Text5, wholly owned by Teletext, has bid £313,000.The applicants can propose any mixture of teletext or similar services for either open or subscription-only access and no programme… Continue reading Battle Begins For C5 Text Service
The winners of the 1996 sales promotion awards have been announced. The awards attracted more than 400 entries from newspapers up and down the country.The top award for sales promotions campaign of the year, daily and Sunday newspapers, went to the Newcastle Evening Chronicle for their Win Your Dream Home Campaign. While the award for… Continue reading Top Campaigners
Canada’s House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly in favour of imposing strict laws on the advertising of tobacco products. By 139 votes to 37, the MPs voted in favour of banning tobacco advertising on TV, radio, outdoor posters and on buses. Furthermore the legislation would restrict tobacco manufacturers to covering a maximum of 10% of… Continue reading CAN: Commons Votes Ad Ban
NRS figures for August ’96 to January ’97 reveal a disastrous month for the Express On Sunday, which fell 27.3% year on year to 2.935 million. This is the lowest ever NRS for the title, representing an almost continuous decline from the late ’80s when it was read by over 6 million people. Its sister… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – January
Cinema admissions in January reached 2.67 million per week. This represents a 5.6% decrease year-on-year. This brought the total admissions for the month to 11,814,182. The moving annual total was 122,775,902.For the latest Cinema data subscribers should click here.Source: CAA
The front-cover of Xtreme Lifestyle does not bode well for what lies between the covers: the sentence “‘Nuff Diving. Wanna Get The Girl? The Only Way Is Down” suggests that all this mag will be is yet another title milking the success of the “babes and booze” lads market. The editorial as well sounds over-blown… Continue reading First Issue Review – Xtreme Lifestyle
Agency estimates put the total terrestrial television revenue for January at £166.65m, which is an increase of 2.88% year on year. Of this, ITV brought in £128.15m and Channel 4 came in at £38.5m.In terms of impacts the year on year percentage drop for Housewives/Children reached double figures again in January, falling 11.2% to 6,250… Continue reading TV Round-Up – January
