March 9-13 World Summit on Children’s TV (London) 12 European Conference (London) 16 Seminar for Culture Ministers (Macclesfield) 17 Transport Council Seminar for Culture Ministers (Macclesfield) 30 Internal Market Council April 6 Social Affairs Committee 6-8 European AV Conference on ‘Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Age’ (Birmingham) 23 Consumer Affairs Council 30 Health Council… Continue reading Calendar Of Events Related To Commercial Communications
The Radio Authority has announced that it received fourteen applications for the Independent Local Radio (ILR) licence for the North-East region of England. The licence will cover the areas Tyne & Wear, Cleveland and Durham together with some parts of Northumberland and North Yorkshire. The population of the area served is around 2 million.The RA… Continue reading RA Receives 14 Applications North-East ILR Licence
The UK division of global direct marketing group WWAV Rapp Collins has ‘hived’ off its London-based media department into a separate company.Communications manager for the group, Robert Mayers told Newsline that the department had grown to such a size that the company’s other three agencies in Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol were making extensive use of… Continue reading WWAV Splits London Media Department Across Its Four Agencies
Publishing group Reed Elsevier today announced adjusted profit before tax of £823 million, up from £805 million in 1996. However, after exceptional items are deducted from the company’s pre-tax profit, it stands at just £346 million, down from £806 million in the previous year.The costs in advisors for the planned merger with Wolters Kluwer, which… Continue reading Reed Profits Lessened By Collapse Of Merger
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
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
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
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 Consumers’ Association in the UK has published a policy paper on the issue of food labelling and health. It provides an overview of the main areas of food labelling and makes recommendations to the UK government, the EU and the food industry. It identifies a number of what it sees as problems within UK… Continue reading UK: CA Policy Paper
The European Parliament is moving quickly to deal with the final legislative stage of the Tobacco Advertising Directive, formally adopted on 12 February by the Research Council. The EP Committee meets on 17 March to consider the text and amendments for the committee stage must be put by 31 March. The EP expects to vote… Continue reading EU: EP Moves Quickly As Lobby Begins
