The Independent Television Commission is this week inviting groups to apply for licences to provide television services over a cable or telephone network to the four million UK homes currently not in a cable franchise area.The licences are to be used to provide broadband cable services or to provide broadcast entertainment services using existing telephone… Continue reading ITC Offers Four Million Homes Up For Grabs
The publisher of Bizarre magazine, John Brown Publishing, releases a one-off Christmas special titled Cream this week, priced at £2.75.The title combines some of Bizarre’s most popular features whilst trying to appeal to a broader audience of men’s magazine buyers.Editor Howard Johnson commented on the release: “We wanted to create a magazine with even broader… Continue reading Bizarre Christmas Special
In its monthly report for September, the Advertising Standards Authority has stated that gas suppliers may be contravening industry standards in the rush to get new customers. The utilities sector has opened up to competition and with the greater choice has come misleading advertising which has led to a flood of complaints to the ASA.… Continue reading ASA Turns Off The Gas
The hard-core pornographic satellite channel Eros TV is the latest to fall victim to a proscription order, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announced this week.The Government has informed the French authorities and the European Commission that it ‘considers this service to have manifestly, seriously and gravely infringed the directive’s provisions on the protection… Continue reading Government Bans Eros Porn Channel
The radio industry’s JICRIT project, which will lead to the introduction of electronic booking and accountability, is covered today in the Finacial Times by media correspondent John Gapper.MediaTel is the contractor who was awarded this project by the RAB in May of this year. The JICRIT service will be the first case of UK media… Continue reading JICRIT FT Feature
Channel 4 news is to get a facelift, and the channel is to feature a six-part gay drama. These were just some of the developments unveiled yesterday when Channel 4 revealed its winter schedule.The news will be getting a new look and be broadcast from a new, fully integrated newsroom as well as reforming its… Continue reading Channel 4’s Plans For Winter
Live! TV has increased its viewing share of cable viewers by 33% over the last year, according to official figures by BARB. The average weekly reach of the channel has risen 13% over the year to 34.6%, making Live! TV the fourth most widely watched cable channel in cable TV homes.The number of homes connected… Continue reading Good News For Live! TV
The GWR radio group has commissioned a study which will set out the options for future controls of radio ownership. In July, the Government published a Green Paper called Regulating Communications which GWR welcomed (see Newsline), and the groups commissioned report, Radio Ownership Controls, is due to be published early next week.The accountancy firm KPMG… Continue reading GWR Concerned About Radio Ownership Controls
Ron Davies, the former secretary of state for Wales who early last week resigned from the cabinet after an incident on Clapham Common, yesterday attacked the media in a commons statement.Amid much confusion and speculation, Mr Davies resigned last week after he was reportedly robbed of his car and his possessions on Clapham Common. Describing… Continue reading Media Comes Under Fire From MPs
The editor of IPC’s popular women’s title Marie Claire, Juliet Warkentin, resigned from the magazine yesterday morning, and has been appointed managing director for marketing and home shopping at Arcadia Group.Juliet commented on her departure: “The decision to leave the magazine was a difficult one for me to make. Marie Claire is a joy to… Continue reading Women’s Title Editor Moves On
