The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee has held a one day public hearing on copyright in the information society at which fourteen invited experts – representing the main groupings affected by the Directive, such as publishers, artists, radio and television producers, software manufacturers, film-makers, the record industry and libraries – spoke on the proposal for… Continue reading EU: Copyright Directive public hearing
Consumers are increasingly wishing to buy their television and telephone services from a single provider, according to new research from US group J D Power and Associates.This is good news for cable companies, such as Telewest and Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), which provide both multi-channel TV and a telephone service. For fixed line providers,… Continue reading Consumers Want Television And Telephone Services From One Provider, Says Report
Southern Newspapers has appointed David Murdoch as editor of the Dorset Evening Echo. He joins from the Express & Echo, Exeter, where he was deputy editor.Murdoch replaces David Lee who has left the company.Southern Newspapers: 01703 424 424
The Federation of European Direct Marketing, which represents the direct marketing industry at a European level, with 550 companies and the direct marketing associations of EU Member States, has prepared a European Code of Practice as a set of self-regulatory rules to be followed by all users of personal data for direct marketing purposes.
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
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
Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W) has bought a 50.1% stake in interactive TV services company, Two Way TV, for £13 million. Two Way TV’s technology will allow C&W’s digital television service to include interactive quiz and game shows that allow contestants to link-up with the programmes’ live broadcasts.Two Way TV has been testing its services… Continue reading C&W Communications Takes Stake In Two Way TV
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
