Kieran Kelly, formerly ad manager at The Sunday Express Magazine, has been taken on by OK!. Kelly will take up the post of agency sales manager at the title. While Stan Myerson the group ad director has been promoted to the board.Manchester-based, Broughton Jacques has come to an arrangement with TCS Media. Following the departure… Continue reading Industry Changes
The Broadcasting Standards Council has published its November complaints bulletin.A few cases involved in the report have particular interest. Channel 4’s, Cutting Edge programme, The Home, was found to be taking the programme beyond acceptable boundaries. The programme looked at the care given to elderly people in a nursing home. The BSC concluded that, some… Continue reading Complaints Bulletin
A new company called Digital 3 and 4 Ltd, jointly owned by ITV and C4, today submitted an application to the Independent Television Commission to run the second digital terrestrial television licence.The company has to satisfy that it will build the new digital transmission network, covering 85% of the country, within four years, and that… Continue reading ITV And C4 Join Forces For Digital Launch
The Express has appointed Justin Jameson as marketing director. Jameson is currently a senior associate with Spectrum, the strategic consultancy firm, he will move to The Express in March.The newly created role at The Express comes as the newspaper group prepares for a Spring marketing campaign designed to reverse its falling readership. Jameson will also… Continue reading Express Puts New Emphasis On Marketing
TDI Advertising has bought outright the Manchester-based bus advertising contractor Buspak, giving it complete control of the UK bus market.The buy-out, for an undisclosed sum, now takes TDI’s share of the outdoor market from around 11%, worth £400m, to 14%. Some industry sources suggest that the move may give TDI the power to increase rates… Continue reading TDI Gains Control Of Bus Ads
1996 was another year of steady growth for the number of homes that could receive Cable and Satellite. The ITC’s October analysis of the Cable industry showed that the number of homes passed has grown by 2 million over the last year from 6.18 million to 8.22 million. However the number of homes connected only… Continue reading Cable And Satellite Round-Up 1996
The arrival of the X-Files-type drama Dark Skies on Channel Four has helped the station to achieve its highest audience figure of the year so far, with the first episode attracting 5.10 million viewers. Overall however Channel Four audiences fell this week, most significantly Countdown not maintaining its normally relatively stable audience figures throughout the… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 19/01/97
A census by IPA shows a further recovery in agency employment. The number of people employed on 1 September 1996 is estimated to have been 12,800 at 220 member agencies, compared with 12,300 at 225 agencies the year before.The numbers employed still remain lower than the 15,400 in 1989.The staff increase has been mainly in… Continue reading Agency Staff Increases
First Leisure Corporation has announced that Michael Grade will be leaving his post at Channel 4 to take up his new role as First Leisure’s executive chairman. Grade said: “I shall ensure First Leisure continues on its present and highly successful course.”It is reported that First Leisure intend to expand the company’s entertainment interests and… Continue reading Confirmed, Grade Moves To First Leisure
The ITC announced today that it will be amending two of the rules in its Code of Advertising Standards and Practice. Those rules are rule 5, which deals with the separation of programmes and advertisements, and rule 40(k) which is concerned with sales promotions for alcoholic drinks.The Commission approved the amendments, following requests from the… Continue reading ITC Revise Advertising Code
