Despite receiving 131 complaints from across the country, the Nicky Clarke shampoo ads will not be banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). The Authority describes the ads, which feature naked men and women using the Nicky Clarke hair products, as ‘adults having harmless fun.’The adverts have appeared across the national press as well as… Continue reading ASA Says ‘Naked’ Shampoo Ads Are Harmless Fun
Condé Nast is to take the GQ spin-off title, GQ Active, back alongside its parent title and reduce its frequency to four times a year. The health, fitness and lifestyle magazine, currently monthly, will be packaged together with GQ in February, April, July and November next year.The title is currently circulating at around 65,000 copies… Continue reading GQ Active Becomes Quarterly Alongside GQ
In response to the Advertising Standards Authority’s (ASA) decision to uphold complaints against the CRE’s latest poster campaign, run in late September, (see Newsline), the Commission has released another ad.Created by Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper, and run in The Times on Monday, the ad features a list of stark statistics about racial discrimination all under… Continue reading Commission for Racial Equality Responds To ASA’s Ruling
Express Newspapers has announced a new sales director (circulation) in the form of Richard Miller. He will be reporting to Paul Woolfendon, commercial director, as a main board member.Richard came from Associated Newspapers, where he worked on both the Daily Mail and the Mail On Sunday. The Express‘ circulation has flagged recently and is currently… Continue reading Sales Director Switches To The Express
MediaTel is today celebrating its 17th birthday.Over the years the company’s media information system has been developed, augmented and transferred from a Teletext-based medium to the internet. MediaTel recently won the contract to develop the radio advertising booking system, JICRIT, which is currently in progress.
The ITN news service has launched an archive website, located at www.itnarchive.com, which features a moving picture database service.The service is for producers of broadcast, corporate, advertising and multimedia programmes, and consists of three main elements: shotlists of ITN’s output and rushes since 1955; a separate listing of the themed Collections that ITN has been… Continue reading ITN Archive Store Goes Online
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is currently facing the possibility of High Court action this week as the case against the Commission’s minimum carriage requirements review, led by Flextech (see Flextech Takes ITC ‘Unbundling’ Move To High Court), draws to a close.In August this year Flextech, the pay-TV group, took action against the ITC’s decision… Continue reading ITC’s ‘Unbundling’ High Court Case Draws To A Close
As the launch of ITV’s new digital TV channel (see Newsline), ITV2 approaches, the company has said that it is not planning to have a separate airtime sales house for the service. Instead it intends to set up a sales committee comprising representatives from each of ITV’s three sales houses, TSMS, Carlton Sales and Laser.Each… Continue reading ITV2 To Have No Dedicated Sales House
Cable and communications company, NTL, has just unveiled plans to launch what it claims to be the UK’s first fully interactive television service. The operator is to distribute set-top boxes for its service outside NTL cable franchise areas, making it nationally available.The service, set to launch next Spring, is not to be confused with cable… Continue reading NTL Unveils Interactive Services
The BBC is due to announce plans this afternoon to reorganise its television news service. It is understood that the Six O’Clock News is to be extended by half an hour, and will concentrate on national and regional reports, with the Nine O’clock News focusing more on global events and situations.The development comes after ITN’s… Continue reading BBC Plans To Shift News
