The Radio Authority is currently seeking a new head of programming and advertising to succeed David Lloyd, who leaves the post at the end of July after three years. The successful candidate will head the small team responsible for the regulation of over 200 independent radio licensees.…The RA is advertising a new FM Independent Local… Continue reading Radio Authority News
The Independent Television Commission, which regulates commercial television broadcasting in the UK, is to permit “masthead” programming on analogue terrestrial television, as a result of pressure from publishers and their representative organisations. Such broadcasting, which allows well-established media brands in publishing to extend their brands into the arena of TV, is already permitted in the… Continue reading UK: ITC permits masthead broadcasting
The 23 April Consumer Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg under the chairmanship of Nigel Griffiths, UK secretary of state for consumer affairs, reached agreement on a Common Position on the sale and guarantee of consumer goods. The Directive – which aims at ensuring that EU consumers have a uniform degree of protection when faulty goods… Continue reading EU: Majority support for Directive
Continuing to draw on the success of its football coverage, Channel 5 has won the exclusive rights to broadcast Liverpool and Chelsea’s European football campaigns.The channel covered all of Chelsea’s games in their run-up to victory in this year’s Cup Winners’ Cup. In fact, the club’s game against Real Betis gave Channel 5 its largest… Continue reading Channel 5 Continues Its Soccer Success
EC consumer affairs officials of DG XXIV – specifically believed to be Christiane Specht and her Danish head of unit, Nymand-Christensen – have begun studying the relationship between schools and industry sponsorship in Belgium, France, Scandinavia, Spain and the UK to attempt to arrive at an overall view of the way different MS operate policies… Continue reading EU: Schools marketing under scrutiny
The EP Environment Committee has adopted its position on the text of the tobacco advertising proposal as approved by the Council. Accepting the advice of its Rapporteur, Christian Cabrol (UFE, F), the Committee voted by 36 to 7 (and 1 abstention) to adopt, as it stood, the Council’s common position on the proposal. The European… Continue reading EU: EP Committee approves text
In its third annual report on the implementation of the Television Without Frontiers Directive the European Commission has reported that most MS TV broadcasting companies are respecting the quota system for European productions, as stipulated in Article 4 of the Directive, which requires a majority of broadcast output to be European-origin production. In 1996, 214… Continue reading EU: Broadcast quotas widely respected
The Polish public TV broadcasting company Televizja Polska (TP) is facing a cut in its advertising levels following the probable passage of legislation through the Polish parliament. The proposed legislation will cut advertising by the broadcaster from 15 per cent to 10 per cent of broadcast time; TP currently earns two-thirds of its income (equivalent… Continue reading POL: Ad restrictions likely
The New South Wales print media have been told by the NSW health officer that if they publish photos of racing cars showing any tobacco logo they will be fined up to $30,000. Photos of the recent Melbourne Grand Prix had fallen foul of the law, and the health officer has warned that further transgressions… Continue reading AUS: Photos censored
The launch of ITV2, ITV’s digital terrestrial channel, is billed as an opportunity for advertisers to reach an audience ITV would die for – young, predominantly upmarket male light viewers who are interested in sport, music and light entertainment. While precise details of programming are still scarce, ITV2 has announced the kind of shows it… Continue reading Interview – Andrew Chowns, ITV2 Project Director
