The Advertising Standards Authority has agreed to adopt the recommendations of an independent review of alcohol advertising. The key proposals are to maintain the 2100 hrs “watershed” for broadcast alcohol advertising and that such advertising should not feature role models of young people. The review also proposes that research should be carried out into the… Continue reading NZ: ASA welcomes review proposals
A federal US appeals court has ruled that the FDA has no power to regulate tobacco marketing. The judgement – the second of its kind – will delay the proposed FDA curbs on outdoor signs, sponsorships and imagery in ads, and leaves the issue to be decided by the Supreme Court.
ITV2, ITV’s digital channel, is due to go on air in November. Today saw the release of the new programme portfolio, which includes new sports, entertainment and factual programmes.Sports-wise, Futbol Mondial is one of the new shows to hit the airwaves, a half-hour football magazine show with a world perspective. Gabby Yorath will be hosting… Continue reading ITV Gets Commissioned
BSkyB has unveiled the Sky Digital programming packages with which it will vie for digital subscribers when the service launches on 1 October (see Countdown To BSkyB Digital Launch Begins).The service is made up of almost 80 channels which are divided across six different subscription packages. The cheapest of these, the Sky Value Pack, will… Continue reading Sky Rolls Out Digital Offerings
Zone Publishing has promoted Justyn Barnes to editor of Manchester United Magazine, and she moves up from the position of deputy editor to replace Faith Mowbray, who has been appointed managing editor for all of Zone’s football publications.Zone recently launched La Roma, the new AS Roma magazine, and will also be handling the club’s commercial… Continue reading Appointments In The Publishing Zone
Scottish Media Group (SMG) has expanded its magazine interests through the £3.1 million takeover of trade journal publisher, TAS Publishing.Glasgow-based SMG owns Scottish Television and Grampian Television as well as newspapers such as The Herald and The Evening Times.TAS publishes Components in Electronics, aimed at design engineers and buyers in the electronics industry and with… Continue reading Scottish Media Expands With Magazine Buy
Shares on the London stock market made a strong recovery today after going into freefall, fuelled by fears of a global meltdown sparked by the Russian crisis.After falling 259 points at its worst, the FTSE-100 index clawed back to show a 76.7 points fall at 5291.9 by early afternoon.Earlier, screens had turned red in the… Continue reading Market Report
In The Independent‘s ranks, Louise Moss has been promoted to advertisement controller of the weekend newspapers.Simon Cooke, previously with The Guardian, has been made display ad controller for the weekday products, and The Mail On Sunday‘s client sales executive has been poached and made client sales manager on both the Sunday and weekday papers.Steve Miron,… Continue reading Appointments At The Independent
EMAP Metro’s latest venture – code name Project J – is being kept under lock and key by its creators. Its editor-to-be, Mark Frith, could confirm only one thing: “It will be a high frequency entertainment magazine.”The launch date towards the end of the year is speculative as well as vague, and EMAP is rumoured… Continue reading Emap’s Project J – Top Secret
Front Cover – FrontiersFollowing a pilot issue in March this year (see First Issue Review – Frontiers), Future Publishing has given the go-ahead to its science and technology magazine, Frontiers.The monthly will launch fully on 4 September with a £1 first issue along with a promotional campaign, something the pilot lacked. The second issue is… Continue reading Future Presses On With Frontiers
