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Members of the Code Review Group of the ICC will this week (13 March) be considering final amendments to the newly revised draft direct marketing code and internet marketing guidelines.

ITV has announced a new daytime programme schedule which sees the Vanessa show move to a 9:35am slot and The Jerry Springer Show making an appearance in the afternoons.The new schedule, which begins on 23 March, will also see an extended version of This Morning and a new celebrity game show called Waffle.ITV’s new controller… Continue reading ITV Unveils New Daytime Schedule

The media industry has cautiously welcomed the Mirror Group’s sale of its share in the Independent titles to Tony O’Reilly’s Independent Newspapers (see yesterday’s Independent Gets New Owner).Christine Tulloch, media director of Faulds, summed up the general feeling when she told Newsline that she felt the move was “reasonably positive” though she did believe that… Continue reading Industry Reacts With Cautious Optimism Over Independent Move

In Germany, the automobile industry last year is still spending more than any other sector on advertising, with more than DM 2.7 billion; this is an increase of 6.9 per cent over the previous year. In second place is media, up 13.9 per cent and totalling more than DM 2.5 billion. Following liberalisation of the… Continue reading DE: Cars In Top Place

Glenda Jackson, a junior minister in the department of environment, transport and the regions, has said in the UK Parliament that the EC hopes to bring forward in the summer of this year proposals for voluntary guidelines – similar to those already in existence in the UK – concerning car advertising. This follows various meetings… Continue reading UK: Voluntary Guidelines

As forecast in NOTICES 32 the Communication following up the European Commission’s Green Paper on Commercial Communications has been adopted by the Commission. The Commission has agreed an important series of measures to facilitate the cross-border provision of commercial communication services along the broad lines of the proposals contained in the Green Paper. This approach… Continue reading EU: Green Paper Bolstered

The Stuurgroep met on 13 February the Dutch Consumers Organisation; this was the second such meeting on the issue of advertising and children. The meeting follows the 1995 decision by both organisations to revise those elements of the Dutch advertising code relating to children. Now the two organisations need to confer on only two further… Continue reading NL: Stuurgroep Meets Consumer Group

United News & Media has announced that it has bought a stake in LineOne , the internet joint-venture company formed by BT and News International last year (subscribers see One Line For BT And NI).The group is thought to have paid around £10m for a 33% equity stake in LineOne.Clive Hollick, United News & Media’s… Continue reading UNM Becomes Equal Partner In LineOne

Well, quite a bit of new stuff on the box this week. First of all 2 Point 4 Children returns to BBC1, watched by 9.38 million, joined by another comedic “big gun” in Goodnight Sweetheart (8.85 million). Both of these programmes are in severe danger as they enter the hostile depths of ‘a series too… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 01/03/98

The UK government is studying the possibility of introducing a cinema-style classification for the internet, which could be linked to an electronic filtering device. According to Barbara Roche, the IT minister at the department of trade and industry, speaking at a meeting of the Internet Watch Foundation, the scheme may get government backing. At this… Continue reading UK: Internet Classification Plans