A new draft text setting out the Council’s Common Position on the EU tobacco advertising ban has emerged: the new text goes some way to clarifying the previously elusive provisions. It is understood that the new text will be considered at the next available Council meeting, and may be adopted in the next few weeks.
Vernon Coaker MP has proposed a bill on product labelling in the UK House of Commons. The bill would ensure that labelling incorporates information relating to the “key facts about the production of goods or services” as well as more nutritional labelling in line with the recommendations contained in the Co-operative Society’s recent report “The… Continue reading UK: MP Proposes Product Labelling Law
WV Publications, publishers of Pregnancy and What Video, are staffing up for two new magazine launches, one of which is scheduled for this Summer.Although specific details are yet to be released WV told Newsline that one of the magazines will be concerned with consumer electronics and the other will cover women’s health.Titles and launch dates… Continue reading WV Publications Plan For New Titles
Leeds-based ESP, the Ellaby Sheldrake Partnership, has now opened its doors for business and is poised to announce its first client.The company, which aims to offer a consultancy service with a slant towards buying and planning, is linked to media independent Media Lane with whom it shares a building.ESP is run by Michele Ellaby and… Continue reading Media Specialist Launches In Leeds
Internet development company NetChannel is due to be taken over, it has emerged. According to industry sources NetChannel, which is based in the US but has a fledgling UK operation, is being eyed by a number of companies which are interested in developing their new media businesses. Virgin, in particular, is said to be interested.While… Continue reading Takeover Rumours Surround NetChannel
RevenueITV’s struggle to redress a significant decline in viewing figures has been well-documented and much-discussed over the previous year and new chief executive Richard Eyre unveiled plans to address the Network’s problems at the beginning of January. However the loss of viewers, as far as 1997 is concerned, has resulted in only the slightest increase… Continue reading TV Round-Up – 1997
The Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS) has published its 8th Code of Practice, which comes into force on 9 March 1998.
The EC has announced that it will investigate the planned merger of CLT-UFA and Kirch of the German pay-TV provider Premiere and of the companies BetaDigital and BetaResearch. The aim of the intended merger is to develop Premiere into a joint digital pay-TV channel and marketing platform incorporating Kirch’s current digital television activities, with the… Continue reading EU: EC Monitors Merger Plans
The EC is investigating the way BSkyB, the pay-TV broadcaster, supplies its material to the cable industry. It has asked Oftel, the UK telecommunications watchdog, to provide information concerning the company following a complaint from General Cable, a UK cable operator. General Cable claims that BSkyB’s high charges have forced it to increase its own… Continue reading EU: BSkyB Probe
1997 saw another year of growth in the number of homes able to receive a cable service and by the 1st October broadband cable services had become available to over 10 million homes in the UK according to ITC figures. Over 2.2 million broadband homes now receive a cable TV service, which gives it a… Continue reading Cable And Satellite Industry Round-Up 1997
