The Independent Radio and Television Commission has announced that it is inviting applications for radio contracts in 19 areas around Ireland. Most of these licences will be for community or community of interest radio services. One special interest radio service for the Dublin area will also be available.The Dublin licence will be public service in… Continue reading Radio To Expand In Ireland
New PHD has appointed David Pattison, one of its managing partners, as the company’s first chief executive. The appointment is effective immediately.…Deputy editor of the Mirror, Brendon Parsons, is to become the new editor of the People. He replaces Len Gould who has left to work on the Sporting Life (see Mirror Group Takes On… Continue reading Appointment Briefs
The Internet Advertising Group, a consortium of leading online publishers, has agreed a set of voluntary guidelines by which advertising on the Web should be sold.At a meeting last week members of the group, which includes the Electronic Telegraph and Channel 4, decided to standardise banner ad sizes and use definitions developed in the US… Continue reading IAG Set Web Standards
Pritt Stick will be sponsoring ITV’s children’s art show, Art Attack. The association begins next Wednesday and will run for the rest of the series until April.Subscribers can access the Sponsorship Database by selecting “Sponsorship” from the drop-down box at the top of this page.ITV: 0171 843 8000
IPC Magazines has announced that Lesley Johnston, currently editor of Mizz, has been appointed as editor of Options from February 1. The move comes after just 10 months in charge at Mizz, during which time she has steered the magazine through a major relaunch.Meanwhile, Claire Barrow has been promoted to the position of ad manager… Continue reading Changes At IPC
GMTV and Unilever’s Elida Fabergé have signed a deal which will see Fabergé’s Vaseline brands endorsing the national weather forecasts on the breakfast television channel. The £1m deal runs from 1 January 1998 throughout next year. During the winter the forecasts will be associated with Vaseline Intensive Skin Care and during the summer they will… Continue reading GMTV Team Up With Vaseline And Deodorant
Paul Smee, director of public affairs at the ITC, has been made the director responsible for the ITC regional offices. His new title will be director of regions and public affairs. Meanwhile, Brian Marjoribanks becomes regional controller and will report to Mr Smee.These changes follow on from a review of the ITC’s 11 regional offices… Continue reading ITC Appoints Director Of Regions
The Advertising Standards Authority has banned the repetition of a press campaign by the Vegetarian Society linking eating meat to a higher risk of cancer, saying it was distressing, shocking and misleading.It said that the ad wrongly implied that “a causal link between the consumption of meat and the incidence of cancer was universally accepted.”… Continue reading Vegetarian Ad Campaign Banned
The Internet arm of Associated Newspapers, Associated New Media (ANM), has just launched what editor Martin Dunn claims is the first totally comprehensive city guide to London. Dunn, former editor of the New York Daily News and Today, says that the This Is London (TIL) site (http://thisislondon.co.uk) is the result of the collation of material… Continue reading Interview – Martin Dunn, Associated New Media
The Teenage Magazine Arbitration Panel (TMAP) received only one complaint on which it could adjudicate since it last met in August.Despite upholding the complaint regarding a sex item in Bliss magazine, the panel acknowledged that editorial awareness has been heightened on the issue of presenting suitable and accurate information on sexual matters in teenage magazines.… Continue reading TMAP Upholds Single Complaint
