A highly sensitive infringement case concerning the regulations in Greece banning toy advertising on TV is becoming bogged down in bureaucratic delaying tactics, now that the Commission has decided – in an extraordinary departure from the established procedure – to conduct a period of consultation on public issues raised by advertising targeted at children and… Continue reading EU: Greek case mired in bureaucracy
Some 50 American companies have drawn up proposals concerning Internet privacy rules, to which they plan to adhere voluntarily in an effort to stave off the imposition of legislation. The Online Privacy Alliance will include guidelines for current and future members concerning notice and disclosure, which will require members to inform consumers when information is… Continue reading US: Internet privacy
The Radio Authority (RA) has received two submissions for the new ILR licence to serve the town of Coleraine, County Londonderry. The following groups applied: Catch FM (Trevor Smyth, 01265 662 242): a totally local, personality-led, music-based station painting a colourful daily picture of life within the Causeway Coast; Causeway Coast Radio (Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, 01265… Continue reading RA Receives 2 Applications For Coleraine Licence
963/972 Liberty Radio has been fined £4,000 by the Radio Authority (RA) for failing to comply with its promise of performance, for breaches of the Authority’s programme code and for failing to supply tapes of the station’s output to the RA.Authority checks on the London station found that speech levels fell below the 50% level… Continue reading Liberty Radio Fined £4,000 By Radio Authority
The Guardian Media Group (GMG) has appointed Liz Forgan as its non-executive director with immediate effect. Forgan is currently chairman of Arrowhead Productions and of Channel Earth.Between 1993 and 1996 Forgan was the managing director of Network Radio for the BBC during which time she oversaw the launch of Radio 5 Live and the repositioning… Continue reading Guardian Media Group Appoints Non-Executive Director
The Radio Authority (RA) has awarded small-scale local radio licences for Tayside to the following two groups: Discovery FM (Tony Dewhurst, 01942 777 666): a fluid mix of easy listening and soft adult contemporary artists together with locally focused speech content targeting the 35-64 year old market with a proposed music to speech ratio of… Continue reading Radio Authority Awards Local Licences
IPC Magazines’ Sporting Gun is to relaunch with a major redesign with effect for the August issue.A new 8-page pull out section is to be added and will feature a round-up of all clayshooting results and fixtures.Associate publisher, Allison Ganley, says: “The redesigned Sporting Gun has more energy and a contemporary design. It offers improved… Continue reading Sporting Gun Gets Revamp
Chief executive of Portsmouth & Sunderland Newspapers, Charles Brims, was elected president of the Newspaper Society (NS) for 1998/9 at the Society’s Council meeting earlier this week. He succeeds Chris Oakley, chief executive of Regional Independent Media.Whilst chairman of the NS’ marketing committee, Brims oversaw the launch of NS Marketing.Newspaper Society: 0171 636 7014
New figures from the Advertising Association (AA) show that more money is being spent on consumer magazines than ever before: expenditure on the sector has increased by 81% in the last five years.According to the new Advertising Statistics Yearbook, people spent £1.69 billion on magazines in 1997, a growth of 17% year on year.Source: Advertising… Continue reading Consumer Mags Market Is Booming, According To AA Figures
All but three national newspapers lost readership year on year during the NRS period December ’97 – May ’98. The Times was the only title to gain a significant number of readers, up 9.88% to just under 2 million. The only other titles which do not report a fall are the Mirror (up 0.29% to… Continue reading National Newspaper NRS – May 1998
