The European Broadcasting Union is fighting to ensure that the coverage of the next two football World Cups in 2002 and 2006 are shown on free to air television. The EBU are usually sold the television rights to World Cups by FIFA, the international governing body for football, but this year the rights were sold… Continue reading EBU In Fight To Keep World Cup Rights Free To All
Viewers are less tolerant of strong scenes in television dramas than they are in films, according to an Independent Television Commission research report published today called Film Versus Drama: Relative Acceptability Of The Two Genres On Television.According to the report, viewers very much appreciate information about the content of programmes, and consider television drama content… Continue reading Drama More Of A Shocker Than Films, Says ITC
The Guardian and Nike are to launch a print and online collaboration this Saturday, 14 November. A 24 page A5 Run London Guide will be given away with The Guardian in the London area, and the website http://www.runlondon.co.uk will be run for 3 months.The website features 100 runs in the London area, with detailed maps,… Continue reading Guardian And Nike Run Circles Round London
Newsquest, England’s largest publisher of local and regional newspapers, released its third quarter results today.The group reported an increase in turnover, rising from £72.9 million to £78.1 million. Operating profit also rose 18% to £21.4 million.Pre-tax profit rose £4.7 million, to £14.3 million, a rise of 49%. Newsquest bought Review Free Newspapers earlier this year… Continue reading Newsquest Pre-Tax Profits Increase
At the end of last week, the Culture Secretary Chris Smith launched a report into the economic importance and potential of the UK creative industries.Such industries include publishing, software, design, music, television and radio, advertising and designer fashion.The report reveals that the creative industries generate revenues of about £60 billion per year, and export an… Continue reading Culture Secretary Launches Report Into Creative Industry
British Interactive Broadcasting (BiB), the joint venture formed by BT, BSkyB, Midland Bank and Matsushita to provide digital TV interactive services, announced today that it is to have a new brand – it is renaming as Open…..BiB was recently given permission to launch by the EU (see Newsline), and is expected to begin running a… Continue reading A Change Of Identity For BiB
By the year 2005, 42% of households will have digital television, according to the latest CIA MediaVision predictions for this month. This makes an analogue switch-off date between the years 2010 and 2012 a possible target.As well as this, CIA predicts that if penetration of digital TV is as high as 75% come 2010, then… Continue reading Digital TV To Give Blast-Off To Home Shopping, Say CIA
Capital Radio is revamping its websites to make them better reflect the style and output of the group’s radio brands. The new sites will have extensive content and design changes that will make them appear simpler, faster and easier to use.The main focus of the sites will centre around music, entertainment, football and online shopping,… Continue reading New Look For Capital Radio Websites
The Independent Television Commission has gained backing from the High Court over its ‘unbundling’ rule. The TV company Flextech’s challenge of the ITC’s ruling earlier this year, which claimed that the commission was acting outside of its legal powers (see Newsline), failed when the ITC received backing from the High Court..The ITC’s proposed unbundling plans… Continue reading ITC Gets Backing Over Unbundling
Jeff Eales of Granada Media reported briefly to the Nice MRG Conference on the work of the ITV Technology Group – formed to look at brand attribution and electronic trading.Most progress had been made with the former, the result of which, Jeff hoped, would be a standard industry list of naming conventions for advertisers, brands… Continue reading Brand Attribution Project Makes Steady Progress
