IPC’s TV Times is to reduce the number of pages it carries for advertising by eight, and will switch them to editorial from 16 October.The move comes in a bid to build circulation and provide better value for readers. There will also be editorial changes such as a new family section, which will include articles… Continue reading TV Times Loses Ad Pages
The Monopolies and Mergers Commission is to investigate the supply of films to UK cinemas.The investigation follows complaints from independent cinema owners that the main distributors will not give them access to the big blockbusting movies.Many of the modern multi-screen cinemas are owned by American companies which also distribute films and who give preferential treatment… Continue reading MMC To Look At Cinema Industry
Airport TV should launch early next year at the six British Airport Authority airports: Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.The service will be launched by Sky Sites and will be primarily news-based, with some light entertainment features.The service will be available 17 hours per day, all the operational hours of the airport. It will… Continue reading Airport TV Early Next Year
The Independent Television Commission yesterday announced that it does not consider that a video on demand service needs to be licensed as a local delivery service under part II of the 1990 Broadcasting Act.The service would be where individual programmes are transmitted by means of a telecommunication system to only one household at a time… Continue reading Video On Demand Go Ahead
The Monopolies and Mergers Commission is to investigate the supply of films to UK cinemas.The investigation follows complaints from independent cinema owners that the main distributors will not give them access to the big blockbusting movies.Many of the modern multi-screen cinemas are owned by American companies which also distribute films and who give preferential treatment… Continue reading MMC To Look At Cinema Industry
Panasonic has signed a deal to become the seventh sponsor for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehmmer, Norway. Pop Group Wet Wet Wet are the first British band to sponsor a football team after signing up for their home-town club, Clydebank FC. Cow & Gate is sponsoring GMTV’s weekly Mother and Baby series. Skoda Automobile… Continue reading Sponsorship Latest
The Independent Television Commission yesterday announced that it does not consider that a video on demand service needs to be licensed as a local delivery service under part II of the 1990 Broadcasting Act.The service would be where individual programmes are transmitted by means of a telecommunication system to only one household at a time… Continue reading Video On Demand Go Ahead
The Health Education Authority yesterday called for a ban on Embassy Regal cigarette ads because of research which shows that the ads appeal to children and teenagers.It is the first time that the government funded authority, which opposes all tobacco promotion, has attacked the advertising of one brand.The posters feature a middle-aged man called Reg.… Continue reading Call For Ban On Regal Ads
Publishers of some 1,500 magazines have launched a national advertising campaign in advance of the Autumn Budget, to try and influence opinion against the possibility of a tax on reading.The ads will appear in magazines throughout the country and feature comments made by John Major on the standard of education in this country, such as… Continue reading Magazines Launch VAT Ad Campaign
The ITV airtime sales house which will handle sales for Granada, STV, Border Television and Grampian has announced its trading name and appointed an agency sales director.The company will be known as The Time Exchange and will begin trading on 1 January 1994.Mark Butterfield, account director at TSMS has been appointed agency sales director. MediaTel… Continue reading ITV Sales House New Details
