Following the ITC’s decision to relax regulations on masthead programming *ITC To Revise Sponsorship Code,Ideal Home magazine and Carlton Select are producing the television series, Ideal Home Cooks. This will be the UK’s first masthead TV programme and will go on-air in March. The collaboration will also include cross-editorial promotions.….Granada Sky Broadcasting has signed a… Continue reading Ideal Home Gets Its Own TV Show
On 23 January the EU Council of Ministers adopted the Directive on Distance Selling, after a process that has lasted over five years. The Directive covers most transactions between suppliers and consumers for goods and services concluded at a distance as part of a sales or service provision scheme. The Directive does not apply to… Continue reading EU: Distance Selling Directive Agreed
Representatives of advertisers, agencies, media and self-regulation bodies met at Corsendonk, Belgium on 3-4 February to review progress in European advertising self-regulation and to draw up plans for the next 5 years. The seminar reached the following conclusions: Good progress has been made since the first Corsendonk seminar in November 1991. The European Advertising Standards… Continue reading EU: Corsendonk II Re-Sets Priorities
Following a meeting with its members and interested parties, the UK Advertising Association has submitted its response to the Home Office on the proposed deregulation of the casino industry. While welcoming the Government’s consultation in this area, it warns that some of the proposals are inconsistent, for example, that advertisements can be placed in local… Continue reading UK: AA Position On Casino Advertising
Three of Britain’s biggest television broadcasters – Carlton Communications, British Sky Broadcasting and the Granada Group – have joined forces to bid for the right to launch Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in the UK. The consortium – called British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) – has also reached agreement with the BBC to broadcast a number of… Continue reading UK: Digital Terrestrial Television
A full turn-out of the UK Advertising Association’s Green Paper Working Group met on 7 February to review developments in the European Commission’s consultative process on commercial communications and the internal market. Jean Bergevin of DGXV attended and spoke about developments over the past few months. He stated that 350 submissions – an encouraging total… Continue reading UK: AA Reviews GPCC Progress
EMAP Radio and GWR are both involved in rival radio stations in Yorkshire. EMAP Radio will be transmitting three new Magic stations and GWR will be contributing programmes to Classic Gold. Both these stations will be aiming at a 35-45 year old audience.EMAP Radio has abandoned its traditional golden oldie programme format. This golden image… Continue reading Battle Of The Air Waves In Yorkshire
The Family Channel is relaunching as Challenge TV today. Challenge TV is a gameshow led channel that will broadcast from 5pm to 5am daily.A full cable and satellite round-up for 1996 will be available on Newsline on Tuesday, while interim results for BSkyB are released on Wednesday.Friday sees the publication of Rajar’s quarterly results. These… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The announcement on Friday afternoon of broadcasters’ digital television plans caused some major gains and losses within the sector. Those who threw in their lot with the digital “revolution” had a good day’s trading, while ITV companies which decided to stay aloof and cable companies which would suffer from the competition all experienced price drops.The… Continue reading Sharewatch – W/E 31/01/97
In Spain, the government introduced regulations on 31 January that block the sale of decoders for Canal Satellite Digital’s (CSD) first broadcasts in the country. The government argues that there must be a standardisation of the decoding device, otherwise CSD would be able to establish a monopoly over the Spanish market. CSD is owned by… Continue reading ES: Government Blocks Digital System
