Well, it looks like Coronation Street and Heartbeat are now taking alternate weeks at holding the top spot. The Street is back on top this week, attracting an average audience of 16.72 million over its four episodes. Eastenders again remains the great pretender, not only in terms of viewing figures (average of 15.04 million), but… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 07/12/97
BBC Magazines has closed its Clothes Show Magazine due to insufficient returns on investment. The BBC anticipates that most of the personnel will be ‘redeployed’ within the corporation. BBC Worldwide is planning two new monthly magazines in the science and home interest sectors for launch early next year.The Clothes Show Magazine‘s last ABC audit put… Continue reading BBC’s Clothes Show Magazine Closes
Bill Gates and Microsoft inevitably feature in every Web Round-Up so we may as well get their slot out of the way first. This week Mr. Gates’ empire has been mostly losing its court case with the US government to the effect that Microsoft must now change its marketing practices for the Internet Explorer browser… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 19/12/97
A proposal for a Directive harmonising aspects of rules on copyright and related rights in the Information Society has been presented by single market commissioner Mario Monti. The proposal would adjust and complement the existing legal framework, with particular emphasis on new products and services containing intellectual property (both on-line and on physical carriers such… Continue reading EU: Copyright Directive Resented
The decision by the EU to introduce a Directive to phase out tobacco advertising and sponsorship by 2006 against objections from Germany and Austria – has so angered the German cigarette industry that it plans to take legal action against the ban, even if the German government does not. According to Ludger Staby, chief executive… Continue reading DE: German Opposition Grows
The Times may face a further attack on its pricing scheme as a number of national newspaper owners are taking their complaints to the director-general of the Office of Fair Trading, John Bridgeman. Newspaper Publishing, publishers of The Independent, Telegraph Publishing and the Guardian Media Group have made an offer to meet with Mr. Bridgeman… Continue reading National Newspapers Seek Meeting With OFT
Cordiant, which closed at 110p on Friday, split into two stock-market listings yesterday and started trading as Cordiant Communications and Saatchi & Saatchi (subscribers see Cordiant Announces Demerger).Reception to the new shares was cool however, with Cordiant closing a penny down to 109p while Saatchi & Saatchi finished unchanged at 110p. Early trading this morning… Continue reading Tentative Start For New Cordiant Shares
The Danish Government has announced that it will organise an international conference on electronic signing and encryption next year. In particular, the conference will address the issues of a European regulatory framework for electronic signing, cross-border use, the promotion of electronic commerce in the EU, cryptographic products and services for business, data protection and public… Continue reading EU: Danes Propose e-commerce Conference
The EC has published a Green Paper on convergence between technologies and ownership in the information, media and telecommunications sectors. The powerful advance of digital technologies is drawing these three sectors closer together, with the Internet providing one of the most important impetuses for development. Given that more than 15 per cent of the total… Continue reading EU: Green Paper On Convergence
LineOne , the joint venture between News International and BT, has received its first Web audit from ABC //electronic.From 1 October to 31 October the site, at http://www.lineone.net/, recorded 3.346 million page impressions.Andy Doe, LineOne’s business development director, commented: “This large traffic volume combined with our state of the art targeted advertising system, makes LineOne… Continue reading LineOne Receives Web Audit
