The Food Advertising Unit is holding its first Annual Conference entitled “Food and Drink Advertising to Children: Developing Public Policy” on November 7th at the Old Town Hall in Stratford.Speakers in attendance include George Bull, chairman of Grand Metropolitan plc and president of the AA, and Uisdean Maclean the head of Advertising Clearance at the… Continue reading Conference News
The men’s monthly magazine sector is now firmly established in the market with titles now reflecting various different target audiences, and most still showing good growth. With Arena, Face, I-D, and FHM all now celebrating at least ten years of publication more recent competition from Loaded, Maxim and Eat Soup has brought notice from both… Continue reading Men’s Magazine Market Round-Up
The liberalisation of cross-media ownership rules became law today, effectively meaning that the key industry players will have more freedom to realise their expansion ambitions.The key plank of the new Schedule to the Broadcasting Act 1996 is that numerical limits on the holding of radio and television licences has been abolished to be replaced by… Continue reading New Media Ownership Rules Become Law
Bringing its recent investment in new media to $10m, WPP Group has entered into a corporate partnership with Media Technology Ventures (MTV) – a US investment company specialising in information and entertainment technology start-ups. Other investors in MTV include Motorola Multimedia Group (broadband communications and cable modems provider), STET (telecommunications holding company), Justsystems Inc (applications… Continue reading WPP Partners Interactive Investment Company
According to the latest CIA MediaLab survey, Good Housekeeping is the brand that adults would most like to see being turned into a TV show. This comes as the ITC is considering relaxing its rules on “masthead programming”: at the moment a TV show can be turned into a magazine but a magazine cannot be… Continue reading Support Shown For Good Housekeeping TV Show
September’s cinema admissions show a 22.4% decrease year-on-year, averaging 1.85 million per week. This brings the third quarter average to 2.62 million per week, a 1% increase on last year. The monthly total for September was 7.925 million.Top grossing film of the month was once again Independence Day, taking £7.7m, followed by a relatively strong… Continue reading September Cinema Admissions Fall
Southern Newspapers has this afternoon announced a major review of its operating regions, structures and costs which effectively means its Bournemouth-based Central and Southampton-based Eastern publishing regions will merge.Titles in the new Southern region include the Southern Daily Echo, the Evening Echo Bournemouth, the Southampton Advertiser Series and the Dorset Advertiser Series. The review also… Continue reading Southern Newspapers Merges Regions
Media group EMAP has announced that it will be buying The Box, the cable TV music channel, for £8.3m.The Box is an interactive music channel playing videos selected by cable audiences from a specified playlist. It is available to over 90% of the UK’s 1.5 million cable homes where it has a weekly reach of… Continue reading EMAP Buys Into Youth Market
HTV has announced that it is to start showing live football again on terrestrial television from next month. Five Nationwide Football League matches will be shown on the West of England ITV franchise before Christmas, with more following in the New Year.Live matches to be shown include Bolton Wanderers visit to Swindon Town on December… Continue reading Live League Football Returns To Terrestrial Television
The CIA Group has said that it wants its dispute with Laser *YTTV And Granada Issue Writs Against CIA put before an independent body such as the ITC for arbitration.CIA is proposing to put £832,453, the amount which Laser is claiming it is owed, into an account from which it would pay the sales house… Continue reading CIA Looks To ITC For Arbitration
