There are reports that draft legislation to set up a new Food Standards Agency (FSA) with powers to enforce new safety measures and to prescribe appropriate dietary behaviour has been postponed. Many expect the bill to be dropped from the legislative agenda of the government, to be announced in the Queen’s Speech in November this… Continue reading UK: FSA could be postponed
Tuesday Mirror Group relaunches Live TV today and is to cut down on its trade-mark sex themes. The Sex Show is to go, as are sex-line ads. The Weather in Norwegian (featuring a bikinied blonde beauty) will stay. More details on tomorrow’s Newsline.Wednesday National Readership Survey (NRS) data for the period February – July 1998… Continue reading The Week Ahead
TV3, the new commercial television network for Ireland (see Newsline), today announced that it will begin its test card transmission on 9 September, and will now start broadcasting on 20 September when it will be officially switched on by Mr Bertie Ahern (An Taoiseach).Broadcasting from Westgate in the south-west of Dublin, TV3 will provide news… Continue reading TV3 Countdown Begins
The Advertising Standards Authority has agreed to adopt the recommendations of an independent review of alcohol advertising. The key proposals are to maintain the 2100 hrs “watershed” for broadcast alcohol advertising and that such advertising should not feature role models of young people. The review also proposes that research should be carried out into the… Continue reading NZ: ASA welcomes review proposals
A federal US appeals court has ruled that the FDA has no power to regulate tobacco marketing. The judgement – the second of its kind – will delay the proposed FDA curbs on outdoor signs, sponsorships and imagery in ads, and leaves the issue to be decided by the Supreme Court.
ITV2, ITV’s digital channel, is due to go on air in November. Today saw the release of the new programme portfolio, which includes new sports, entertainment and factual programmes.Sports-wise, Futbol Mondial is one of the new shows to hit the airwaves, a half-hour football magazine show with a world perspective. Gabby Yorath will be hosting… Continue reading ITV Gets Commissioned
BSkyB has unveiled the Sky Digital programming packages with which it will vie for digital subscribers when the service launches on 1 October (see Countdown To BSkyB Digital Launch Begins).The service is made up of almost 80 channels which are divided across six different subscription packages. The cheapest of these, the Sky Value Pack, will… Continue reading Sky Rolls Out Digital Offerings
Zone Publishing has promoted Justyn Barnes to editor of Manchester United Magazine, and she moves up from the position of deputy editor to replace Faith Mowbray, who has been appointed managing editor for all of Zone’s football publications.Zone recently launched La Roma, the new AS Roma magazine, and will also be handling the club’s commercial… Continue reading Appointments In The Publishing Zone
Scottish Media Group (SMG) has expanded its magazine interests through the £3.1 million takeover of trade journal publisher, TAS Publishing.Glasgow-based SMG owns Scottish Television and Grampian Television as well as newspapers such as The Herald and The Evening Times.TAS publishes Components in Electronics, aimed at design engineers and buyers in the electronics industry and with… Continue reading Scottish Media Expands With Magazine Buy
Shares on the London stock market made a strong recovery today after going into freefall, fuelled by fears of a global meltdown sparked by the Russian crisis.After falling 259 points at its worst, the FTSE-100 index clawed back to show a 76.7 points fall at 5291.9 by early afternoon.Earlier, screens had turned red in the… Continue reading Market Report
