The highest spending brands for October, according to Register Meal’s latest data, show Peugeot was the biggest spender, with £2.716m on television for its Peugeot 306. The Vauxhall Vectra was the second biggest spender on TV for October, with £2.375m. Neither of these brands were in the top ten for September.Peugeot also spent more on… Continue reading Top Ten Brands – October
The Independent Television Commission has announced they are to advertise another cable franchise area, for East Grinstead. The licence area covers some 42,000 homes from Worth Abbey to Reigate, including Crowborough but excluding the existing Crawley and North East Surrey broadband cable franchises.Applications must be submitted to the ITC by noon on 11 March 1996.ITC:… Continue reading New Cable Franchise Advertised
The weekend’s press reports of Friday’s Broadcasting Bill have led to a wide range of predictions regarding takeovers in the opened-up television market; the rule that only two television licences can be held by one company has gone to be replaced by a cap of 15% of audience share.The favourite takeover targets are Yorkshire Tyne… Continue reading Television Takeovers – Predictions
The National Lottery has caused a £2.6bn reduction in consumer spending in its first year, affecting leisure, food and gambling expenditure, as well as sending tremors through financial services and other sectors. These are the findings of the Henley Centre’s report into the effects of the Lottery.The Henley Centre believes that the Lottery has permanently… Continue reading National Lottery Reduces Spending By £2.6bn
Details of the television coverage of the European football Championship will probably be released just after Christmas, the BBC said today, following the draw for the championships which was held yesterday. BBC and ITV have joint coverage of the tournament, and discussions are now taking place as to who gets which matches. One of the… Continue reading Euro’96 Coverage Details Not Yet Confirmed
Pearson, part of the successful Channel 5 Broadcasting consortium, is expected to make a bid for SelecTV this week. SelecTV, the independent production company, makes popular programes such as Birds of a Feather and Lovejoy. The bid will also build another bridge between Pearson and one of its fellow consortium members in Channel 5 Broadcasting,… Continue reading Pearson To Buy SelecTV?
NBC and Microsoft have announced they are to create two 50/50 ventures; a 24 hour news and information cable channel and an interactive on-line news service distributed on the Microsoft Network, Microsoft’s Internet on-line service. Both will be offered world wide and integrated with the NBC television network.The 24-hour news cable service, to be called… Continue reading Microsoft And NBC Join To Create 24-Hr News Service
Leslie Hill, Chairman of the ITV Council has today issued a statement welcoming the Government’s Broadcasting Bill, announced earlier this morning. “We warmly welcome the Government’s proposals…in particular, ITV welcomes the revised proposals for digital television. We are very glad that the guaranteed allocation for the ITV companies has been increased to half a mulitplex… Continue reading ITV Welcomes New Bill
The Broadcasting Standards Council has again had cause to criticise Yorkshire Television’s Emmerdale, which has changed its style over the past year to become more controversial in a bid to increase ratings.The BSC has upheld complaints over an attempted rape scene where it was shown how the attacker had forced his victim to the floor;… Continue reading Broadcasting Standards Criticises Emmerdale
The Government has today published the Broadcasting Bill, which includes changes to the proposals set out in the Media Ownership and Digital Terrestrial Broadcasting consultation papers.Media OwnershipThe main proposals of the Bill will allow greater cross-ownership between newspaper groups, television companies and radio stations; there is also a change in how regulatory authorities assess and… Continue reading Government Broadcasting Bill – Details
