Continuing to draw on the success of its football coverage, Channel 5 has won the exclusive rights to broadcast Liverpool and Chelsea’s European football campaigns.The channel covered all of Chelsea’s games in their run-up to victory in this year’s Cup Winners’ Cup. In fact, the club’s game against Real Betis gave Channel 5 its largest… Continue reading Channel 5 Continues Its Soccer Success
At the recent European Audiovisual Conference in Birmingham, UK, delegates heard broadcasting industry executives call upon the EU’s political leadership to accelerate the move from analogue to digital broadcasting. The Association of Commercial Television (ACT) issued a statement warning that the convergence of various forms of electronic media requires an urgent and thorough overhaul of… Continue reading UK: Birmingham Audiovisual Conference
A DGXV working document entitled “Judging Self-Regulation: When does it make a meaningful contribution to the level of data protection in a third country” has been circulated to interested parties. The document proceeds from Article 25(2) of the data protection directive which requires the level of protection afforded by a third country to be assessed… Continue reading EU: EC considers data protection
EC consumer affairs officials of DG XXIV – specifically believed to be Christiane Specht and her Danish head of unit, Nymand-Christensen – have begun studying the relationship between schools and industry sponsorship in Belgium, France, Scandinavia, Spain and the UK to attempt to arrive at an overall view of the way different MS operate policies… Continue reading EU: Schools marketing under scrutiny
The Senate Commerce Committee has presented a tobacco bill that threatens drastically to curtail all advertising and marketing. The bill has two aspects. If the tobacco companies want limits to their future financial liabilities on health grounds, then they must accept previously proposed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) curbs, plus the additional ones proposed by… Continue reading US: More pressure on tobacco companies
Southern Newspapers has added a new free title to its portfolio in the shape of The Extra. It will appear in Romsey and is part of the Winchester Extra Series , initially having a 9,300 print-run.The publisher has also relaunched the paid-for Marlborough Times as a 24-page free tabloid.Southern Newspapers: 01703 424424
The EP Environment Committee has adopted its position on the text of the tobacco advertising proposal as approved by the Council. Accepting the advice of its Rapporteur, Christian Cabrol (UFE, F), the Committee voted by 36 to 7 (and 1 abstention) to adopt, as it stood, the Council’s common position on the proposal. The European… Continue reading EU: EP Committee approves text
The Advertising Association (AA) is publishing a new study called Making Sense of Advertising. The AA commissioned its Economics Committee to conduct the study in order to improve the debate on the economic and social effects of advertising.Some commentators, says the Association, argue that there are positive economic and social effects, whilst others deem the… Continue reading Make Sense Of Advertising With The AA
The Radio Authority – responsible for licensing and regulating independent (ie, commercial) radio – has amended its Programme Code to include various new guidelines, including: strengthening of taste and decency requirements especially where younger listeners are concerned a sharper focus is brought to bear on the portrayal and scheduling of violence there are clearer rules… Continue reading UK: Radio Authority adjusts code
In its third annual report on the implementation of the Television Without Frontiers Directive the European Commission has reported that most MS TV broadcasting companies are respecting the quota system for European productions, as stipulated in Article 4 of the Directive, which requires a majority of broadcast output to be European-origin production. In 1996, 214… Continue reading EU: Broadcast quotas widely respected
