The Internet Advertising Bureau reports that advertising spending on the Internet in the US rose to the equivalent of £214 million in the final three months of 1997, against £68.75 million for the same period in 1996. In the UK, Internet advertising expenditure is set to reach £60 million a year in 1999; in the… Continue reading US: Internet ad spend increasing
The EC is to refer Ireland to the European Court of Justice for its failure to communicate any national measures transposing Directive 92/100/EEC on rental right and lending right and on certain rights related to copyright in the field of intellectual property. The Directive is regarded by the EC as a key measure for completion… Continue reading EU: Trouble for Irish copyright law
Media and music group Chrysalis today announced six month results which showed a drop in operating losses from £2 million to £1.2m while turnover rose from £59.3m to £61.3m. The group said that its radio division, which includes Galaxy and Heart , is moving towards profitability and the second half of the year has started… Continue reading Chrysalis Nearly In The Black
The Radio Authority is currently seeking a new head of programming and advertising to succeed David Lloyd, who leaves the post at the end of July after three years. The successful candidate will head the small team responsible for the regulation of over 200 independent radio licensees.…The RA is advertising a new FM Independent Local… Continue reading Radio Authority News
The Independent Television Commission, which regulates commercial television broadcasting in the UK, is to permit “masthead” programming on analogue terrestrial television, as a result of pressure from publishers and their representative organisations. Such broadcasting, which allows well-established media brands in publishing to extend their brands into the arena of TV, is already permitted in the… Continue reading UK: ITC permits masthead broadcasting
The 23 April Consumer Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg under the chairmanship of Nigel Griffiths, UK secretary of state for consumer affairs, reached agreement on a Common Position on the sale and guarantee of consumer goods. The Directive – which aims at ensuring that EU consumers have a uniform degree of protection when faulty goods… Continue reading EU: Majority support for Directive
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
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 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
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
