During the restructuring which took place at CIA Medianetwork earlier in the week (see Newsline), a number of directors were made redundant. These included Jackie Almeida, Richard Britton, and Greg Grimmer.Edward Lloyd Barnes, director of IDK, one of CIA’s subsidaries, and Paul Sumner and Simon Poole also lost their positions.CIA: 0171 803 2296
BBC2’s new drama series The Cops has been attacked by the Police Federation as being a ‘poor reflection’ of life in the force. The programme received its first screening on Monday, and showed officers taking drugs, planting evidence on suspects and using violence.A spokesperson gave the following response to Newsline this afternoon:”We have worked closely… Continue reading BBC Cops Come Under Fire
Chris Smith, culture secretary, has made three new appointments to the radio authority.David Witherow, Sheila Hewitt and Feargal Sharkey are the newcomers to the group, and the appointments will be for 5 years from 1 December 1998.Chris Smith commented:”All three of these people came forward after we advertised for new members of the Radio Authority… Continue reading Appointments At The Radio Authority
Channel 4 and The Observer are to join forces to present a project called The Power List, which will appear both on television and in printed format.The project sets out first to define power and then to rank the 300 most powerful people in Britain. The Power List will kick off on Channel 4 this… Continue reading Channel 4 And The Observer Go On A Power Trip
ITV held its The Truth About Sponsorship conference today; here is a brief summary of the points covered.The Current State of the MarketThere has been a rapid growth in broadcast sponsorship in the last three years, with such deals as Cadbury’s with Coronation Street and Vauxhall’s sponsorship of the World Cup. Of the 85% of… Continue reading ITV Conference – The Truth About Sponsorship
The digital revolution could create real risks without proper handling by the government, dilute programme quality and impose unacceptable costs on consumers. These are some of the conclusions of a new report by the National Consumer Council (NCC), called TV’s Last Wave, released today.Director of the NCC, Ruth Evans, commented when launching the report:”Not only… Continue reading NCC Urges Digital Revolution To Consider Consumers
Managing director of Sky Networks, Elizabeth Murdoch, announced today at the European Cable Conference that Sky has established a new division in the form of Sky Interactive Programming. The move is part of Sky’s new initiative to bring interactive services to television.Advanced programming will allow viewers to access video clips and text whilst watching TV.… Continue reading Murdoch Announces New Sky Interactive Division
CIA Medianetwork has announced some internal restructuring. It is grouping its UK operations under one unified brand – CIA Medianetwork UK – headed by Mainardo de Nardis.This is part of the group’s on-going process of building CIA into a better, larger and more successful brand in the UK. The agency’s TV airtime buying specialist brand… Continue reading CIA Restructure UK Operations
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) today notified the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Chris Smith, that the satellite service Channel Bizarre is unacceptable.The ITC advised the Secretary that the channel should be subject to a proscription order under Section 177 of the Broadcasting Act 1990.The satellite service was launched on 15 July,… Continue reading ITC Against Pornographic Satellite Service
ITV today released some partial details about its new digital channel ITV2 at its conference ‘The Truth About Sponsorship’. To begin with the channel will only be broadcasting for a certain number of hours, 1600 to 0230 Monday to Fridays and 0925 to 0230 at the weekend (the channel is expected to go 24 hours… Continue reading ITV2 Channel Details
