Lucozade’s current advertising campaign has been at the centre of a large number of complaints made to the Independent Television Commission (ITC) during June.One advert featuring a group of mods on motor scooters has prompted 22 complaints to the ITC. Viewers reported being able to hear the word “bollocks”, which although dimmed by the sound… Continue reading Lucozade Provokes Energetic Complaints
VNU is planning to merge Newswire, its online daily news service, with its New Media department. This underlines VNU’s eagerness to invest in online publishing, and could put vnunet.com in the running for being one of the leading online source of news and information for IT buyers and suppliers.Caroline Gabriel, editor of VNU Newswire, commented:… Continue reading VNU To Merge Publishing and Online Departments
Virgin Net has launched a Travel Channel on its website, http://www.virgin.net/, offering users travel guides, information on holiday packages and a hotel search facility. The Channel’s travel guide has been produced in association with Lonely Planet, publishers of travel handbooks.The Travel Channel was initially intended for launch in April when the Virgin site was revamped… Continue reading Virgin Net Launches Travel Channel
The BBC has revealed plans to increase its committment to live events and talent following a surge in competition from commercial radio stations which now have a 50.1% share of listening, compared with the BBC’s 47.7%.This strategy will involve all five BBC national networks and include a week-long live music festival in Glasgow called Music… Continue reading Some Livening Up At The BBC
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) published a revision of the Channel 4 licence this week, and introduced a number of changes in the Statement of Programme Policy.The changes involve a reaffirmation of committment to things such as education, the UK film industry, multicultural programmes and programmes on and for people with disabilities. As well as… Continue reading ITC Revises Channel 4 Licence
Revenue Agency estimates for June 1998 put total terrestrial TV ad revenue at £182.09 million, a fall year on year for ITV, Channel 4 and GMTV, and a continuing rise for Channel 5.ITV’s total revenue was down 6.5% to £131.04 million, C4’s fell 7.0% to £40.90 million, and C5’s reached £10.15 million, arise of 4.6%.… Continue reading TV Round-Up – June 1998
A lot of ‘special’ programmes on television this week, even if the content of the programmes themselves is nothing special. ITV decided that the best way it could get viewers to tune into their coverage of the World Cup final was to screen a 50 minute edition of Coronation Street directly beforehand.The first part of… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 12/07/98
First Press and Zone, two British publishing companies, are to be responsible for the publishing of several new football titles.Zone are preparing to re-launch the official Chelsea Magazine on 7 August, which will be a monthly publication costing £2.50. It will be edited by Dan Davis, originally editor of IPC’s Goal.In Scotland, First Press launched… Continue reading More Football Club Magazines To Launch
Adam Porter, managing editor at Loaded , is set to leave to become part of the GQ team as a freelance writer. Although Conde Nast, GQ‘s publisher, cannot confirm a starting date, he will be a contributing editor working alongside James Brown, who was his old editor at Loaded (see Loaded Editor Quits For Rival).Porter… Continue reading Loaded Managing Editor Defects To GQ
The sale of Leeds agency Poulter to its management has finally been completed this week after months of negotiations. In December last year Graham Poulter said the management buyout was being ‘actively discussed’ and that he expected completion in February this year.Graham Poulter has now relinquished control over the agency he founded 29 years ago,… Continue reading Poulter Agency Buyout Finally Complete
