Abbott Mead Vickers has bought telemarketing company Telecom Express for an initial payment of £4 million. Five additional payments of up to a total of £11.2m, depending on the profitability of the company, will also be made over the next five years.Peter Mead, chairman of AMV, said: “Telemarketing is a sector we have been looking… Continue reading AMV Buys Telemarketing Company
Philip Knightley, editor of MediaTel’s Newsline for the last two years, is leaving the post today.During his time at Newsline he has significantly augmented its services and introduced the features sections above.Everyone at MediaTel wishes Phill all the best as we see him off in finest style – a curry at lunch time!Scott Billings becomes… Continue reading Goodbye And Good Luck To Newsline Editor
The Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) has said that bad language has become a more acceptable part of modern life and that television programmes should be allowed to represent this. Nevertheless, the 9:00pm watershed should be maintained and there is hardly ever justification for the use of offensive language before this hour, according to a BSC… Continue reading BSC Says Audiences Are More Relaxed About TV Bad Language
Laser Satellite and Cable has sealed an unusual one day sponsorship deal with Laboratoires Garnier Belle Color 20 Minute ColorEase Gel for its Granada Plus channel.As part of the “blonde sponsorship showcase”, which takes place on Saturday 6 June, Granada Plus will carry blonde themed programming. This will include celebrity interviews with famous blondes such… Continue reading Granada Plus Signs One Day Sponsorship Deal
BSkyB today announced that the BBC’s digital network services will be available on the Sky Digital satellite platform.Initially four digital services from the BBC will be offered to Sky Digital customers for free. These will be BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Choice (a new service with “a range of extended and additional programmes, information and… Continue reading BBC Services To Launch First On Sky Digital
TV3, Ireland’s first independent commercial television network, announced today the appointment of Laser as it sales house. The free terrestrial station will launch this September.TV3 will provide an advertiser supported, national, free-to-air, entertainment and information service, targeting the 15-44 year old age group.Rick Hetherington, managing director of TV3, said: “This is Ireland’s biggest television development… Continue reading Laser To Sell For New Irish Channel
The Radio Authority has received 14 applications for the new Independent Local Radio licences within the Solent/Mid-Hants area. The Authority expects to make avaialble four FM frequencies in the area although it will increase this number if it believs this would be justified.The applicants are: Central Hampshire Radio Ltd. (Bob Kennedy, 01264 720275): a broadly… Continue reading 14 Apply For Solent/Mid Hants Radio Licences
The next three issues of Conde Nast’s GQ magazine will contain a cover-mounted interactive CD-Rom. In a first for magazine CD-Roms, the freebie will carry a number of ads. Carling Premier has booked space on the first and there will be room for ten others on the other two.The CD-Rom will contain music and film… Continue reading GQ CD-Rom To Take Ads
Strike action by BBC technical engineers may affect the Corporation’s coverage of this year’s World Cup matches. Bectu, the union which represents the striking staff, is threatening the action to protest against BBC plans to create a subsidiary unit of staff who will be contracted out to other organisations.Bectu is concerned that this development is… Continue reading BBC Strikes Could Hit World Cup
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) has said that it believes the Government’s plans to set a switch-off date for analogue television signals are premature. The Government outlined these plans in The Multi-Media Revolution report by recommending the announcement of a switch-off date this year.The IPA indicates that “new digital channels have not yet… Continue reading Too Early To Set Analogue Switch-Off Date, Says IPA
