The Swedish Association of Advertising Agencies has announced that it supports the Swedish Government’s ban on advertising to children, and will therefore back the Swedish Consumer Council’s campaign of trying to stop the television channel TV3 broadcasting to Sweden by means of a national boycott. The Association says that it canvassed its members on the… Continue reading SW: Agencies Support Ad Bans
President Bill Clinton has spurned the $368.5 billion deal that was reached earlier this year between tobacco companies and various US states that had sued the industry in order to recover the health-care costs of treating smokers who had allegedly contracted their illnesses through tobacco consumption. Presidential approval was necessary for the deal to be… Continue reading US: Clinton Rejects Deal
WPP has agreed to buy Cockpit Holdings Ltd. and its subsidiary Buchanan for an initial cash outlay of £4m. A further payment of anything up to £11m will be payed, the exact figure depending on the Buchanan’s profits over the next five years. This additional cost consideration will be satisfied 50 per cent in WPP… Continue reading WPP Buy Buchanan And Create Mindshare
Cordiant, which will next week hold an Extraordinary General Meeting to finalise the demerger plans it announced in April (subscribers see Cordiant Announces Demerger), expects that Saatchi & Saatchi will be able to increase its proportion of global business while Bates will concentrate on its strengths in local markets.In an interview in the FT Michael… Continue reading Cordiant Sets Out Demerger Plans
Any information submitted to the Internet, whether as online application forms or personal email correspondence, will, if governments get their way, be available for scrutiny. US intelligence agencies are currently campaigning to ban any encryption codes which they cannot read thus providing them with access to any information passing through the Internet, including private financial… Continue reading Web Round-Up W/E 26/09/97
The behaviour of the Battersby family in Coronation Street has provoked almost 80 viewers to complain to the Independent Television Commission. In its August bulletin the ITC reports that viewers cited the incident when Les Battersby headbutted Curly Watts as an example of an unwelcome change of tone in the soap. The ITC however did… Continue reading Corrie And Brookside Cleared By ITC
Chris Smith, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, last week made proposals that the government may play a part in expediting the installation of digital television. He spoke of Government involvement in providing possible financial incentives for the acquisition of the set-top boxes required to receive digital television.Whilst wanting to “make the benefits… Continue reading Government May Expedite Arrival Of Digital Television
Webmedia has appointed Peter Beech as managing director. Currently head of interactive marketing and new media at Leo Burnett, Beech will take up his new position in mid October. Webmedia’s existing managing director and co-founder, Steve Bowbrick, will become chairman and CEO. Beech’s appointment is designed to free Bowbrick to concentrate on the long term… Continue reading New MD For Webmedia
David Liddiment, the newly appointed network director at ITV, has said that the three major ITV companies of Carlton, Granada and United News & Media should work more closely together to become an “ITV plc” operation.Speaking at the Royal television Society convention in Cambridge, and reported in today’s Financial Times, Mr Liddiment said that the… Continue reading ITV Companies Should Co-Operate, Convention Told
