Future Publishing announced some further appointments this week, following its creation of an advertising director on Friday (see Newsline).David Roberts has been moved to the role of international development publisher, and David Lilley has been made contract publisher.John Weir becomes publisher of Future’s online business, FutureNet, and both Jackie Garford and Rob Price move up… Continue reading Internal Changes At Future
Vice-President of the EP, Georgios Anastassopoulos (Gr, EPP) has recommended that the EP adopts rules to ensure the rights of TV and broadcasting services in respect of satellite and cable. In a report to be presented to the EP, MEPs are expected to vote in favour of measures to govern the use of decoders and… Continue reading EU: Satellite TV and decoders
Worldwide market research company, Taylor Nelson Sofres, has bought video research specialists Media Vision Research (MVR). TNSofres currently operates the BARB TV viewing measurement research, which is the basis for MVR’s VideoTrak data.Nic Lewisohn, MVR’s UK and Ireland director, said: “The video and its related industries will now benefit from one of the world’s largest… Continue reading Taylor Nelson Buys Video Research Group
NTL is to be responsible for building the national transmitter network for commercial digital radio, which will provide interactive services as well as musical content. NTL part owns Digital One (with Talk Radio and GWR), which was yesterday awarded the national digital radio license by the Radio Authority (see Newsline).The group will provide all encoding,… Continue reading NTL To Create Digital Radio Network
Leicester City football club has confirmed that it is in talks with Diamond Cable, its local cable company, which is owned by NTL, about a possible joint venture when the Premiership TV rights expire with Sky in 2001 (see Newsline). In the meantime however, the club stressed it was committed to the present contract, but… Continue reading Football And Media Update
www.telegraph.co.ukThe Electronic Telegraph is, quite simply, an enormous site with hundreds of pages, so my advice to you is to head straight for the site plan on arrival. This tool has alphabetically listed links and descriptions of all the destinations on the site, and should make your wanderings that more comprehensive and less random.To be… Continue reading Website Of The Week – The Electronic Telegraph
The Court of First Instance has upheld actions seeking the annulment of EC decisions concerning an agreement on fixing postal rates and the practice of certain public postal services of intercepting “remailed” post (Case T – 133/95, IECC v Commission). The Commission decided that public postal operators, entrusted with the provision of universal service, are… Continue reading EU: CFI annuls remail decision
Inflation has hit the Government’s target level of 2.5% for the second month running, according to the Office for National Statistics, which uses figures excluding mortgage payments and interest rates.The Retail Prices Index for September was announced this morning as 161.8, a 0.4% increase on last month and a 3.2% increase on September 1997.The news… Continue reading Inflation On Target At 2.5%
The Department of Culture has proposed an amendment to its broadcasting law that would protect important national and international sporting events from being shown only on pay or pay-per-view TV. It proposes that only channels reaching 90% of the population will be allowed to broadcast those events, which will include the summer and winter Olympic… Continue reading NOR: Protected sports list introduced
The meeting of the EU’s Expert Group on Commercial Communications on 22 October will apply the proportionality assessment methodology for the first time to discounts, and will also have a first exchange of views on premiums. Predictions that the group would also start to consider advertising to children may be premature, as the EC is… Continue reading EU: Expert Group meeting
