The Government today publishes a green paper on infringement of privacy which would give individuals the right to sue anyone for damages who causes them distress by invading their privacy. The right would be enforceable against anyone, not just the media.Ministers are anxious to curb the tabloid newspapers, as well as wishing to bring Britain… Continue reading New Right To Privacy Paper
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising is hoping to appoint a new director to promote the value of advertising to the business community, business schools and universities. He will also need to generate the sufficient resources needed to follow through initiatives, as well as giving effect to the plans of the committee.Nick Phillips, Director General,… Continue reading IPA Seeks New Executive
LWT has announced profits of £16.5m for the six months to June 30 – up 20.5% on the same period last year. The company claimed that with profit margins up 7% to 26.6% LWT has one of the highest margins in the industry – operating profits rose by 39% to £32.3m.Due largely to the loss… Continue reading LWT Profits Announced
United Artists Programming has attributed the rise in Astra channel’s overall share in adult television viewing from 5% to 5.6% last week to the launch of its Discovery and Bravo channels.UAP claims that official overnight figures from BARB show Discovery achieving an average adult peak time TVR of 1.5 by its fourth day on air,… Continue reading Success For Discovery And Bravo
The Guardian is to launch a new listings and entertainment guide in the autumn. It will be a full A5 colour version of its current Saturday insert.It will continue to be free with the newspaper, and will incorporate 7 day TV listings as well as more detailed information about arts and entertainment, with glossy, pre-print… Continue reading Guardian To Launch New Guide
Allied Radio, owners of the County Sound Network of radio stations (Delta, Premier Radio and First Gold Radio) as well as Radio Mercury, has announced a pre-tax loss of £1.17m (£585,000) for the first six months to March 31.Turnover was £2.25m of which £745,000 related to discontinued activities. Operating loss for continued activities increased to… Continue reading Allied Radio Profits
It has now been confirmed that Andreas Whittam-Smith has indeed resigned as Chief Executive of Newspaper Publishing PLC. The Board has appointed him Deputy Chairman and Editor-in-Chief.Mr Whittam-Smith will concentrate on developing the papers; he presented extensive plans for development to the Board, but as Mediatel was told this afternoon by Alan Huw Smith, no… Continue reading INDEPENDENT BOARD MEETING – UPDATE
In a survey carried out by the Billett Consultancy with Channel 4, it was found that the most direct influence on ad recall comes from the composition order, length and action of the break itself rather than from the programme surrounding the break.The fewer commercials in a break, the better they are recalled; those in… Continue reading New Survey On Ad Recall
American TV network, NBC, has won the United States TV rights to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics at a cost of £306m – its third successive Olympics win.The European rights had already been sold to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for £168m.The Olympic opening ceremonies are to be moved to Friday night in American prime time.
Andreas Whittam-Smith, founder of the Independent, will offer his resignation as chief executive of Newspaper Publishing, which publishes both the Independent and the Independent on Sunday, at a board meeting today.He will continue in his role as editor of the Independent, and will concentrate on promoting the papers.There is also likely to be a debate… Continue reading Whittam-Smith To Resign As Chief Exec
