United News & Media has announced that it has bought a stake in LineOne , the internet joint-venture company formed by BT and News International last year (subscribers see One Line For BT And NI).The group is thought to have paid around £10m for a 33% equity stake in LineOne.Clive Hollick, United News & Media’s… Continue reading UNM Becomes Equal Partner In LineOne
The Federation of European Direct Marketing Associations (FEDMA) has published the first survey into sales promotion legislation across the EU. It reports that “sales promotion regulations vary so widely in the EU that they constitute a serious distortion to intra-EU trade and to the smooth functioning of sales and marketing in the single market. If… Continue reading EU: FEDMA Calls For Single Market
Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister, Nigel Griffiths, has taken the first steps to drop the requirement to read out warning statements at the end of radio credit ads.In a strongly pro-abolition consultation paper, issued last week, the DTI is seeking market approval to a move, which should see the end of the need for phrases… Continue reading UK: DTI To Drop Radio Warnings
The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), the organisation which acts as motor racing’s world governing body, has surprised many observers by mooting the possibility – subject to reviewing statistical and research evidence – of a voluntary undertaking to end tobacco sponsorship deals in Formula One racing by 2002, four years before the date envisaged by… Continue reading UK: Formula One Sponsorship
March 9-13 World Summit on Children’s TV (London) 12 European Conference (London) 16 Seminar for Culture Ministers (Macclesfield) 17 Transport Council Seminar for Culture Ministers (Macclesfield) 30 Internal Market Council April 6 Social Affairs Committee 6-8 European AV Conference on ‘Challenges and Opportunities of the Digital Age’ (Birmingham) 23 Consumer Affairs Council 30 Health Council… Continue reading Calendar Of Events Related To Commercial Communications
The Radio Authority has announced that it received fourteen applications for the Independent Local Radio (ILR) licence for the North-East region of England. The licence will cover the areas Tyne & Wear, Cleveland and Durham together with some parts of Northumberland and North Yorkshire. The population of the area served is around 2 million.The RA… Continue reading RA Receives 14 Applications North-East ILR Licence
The UK division of global direct marketing group WWAV Rapp Collins has ‘hived’ off its London-based media department into a separate company.Communications manager for the group, Robert Mayers told Newsline that the department had grown to such a size that the company’s other three agencies in Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol were making extensive use of… Continue reading WWAV Splits London Media Department Across Its Four Agencies
Publishing group Reed Elsevier today announced adjusted profit before tax of £823 million, up from £805 million in 1996. However, after exceptional items are deducted from the company’s pre-tax profit, it stands at just £346 million, down from £806 million in the previous year.The costs in advisors for the planned merger with Wolters Kluwer, which… Continue reading Reed Profits Lessened By Collapse Of Merger
ITV has announced a new daytime programme schedule which sees the Vanessa show move to a 9:35am slot and The Jerry Springer Show making an appearance in the afternoons.The new schedule, which begins on 23 March, will also see an extended version of This Morning and a new celebrity game show called Waffle.ITV’s new controller… Continue reading ITV Unveils New Daytime Schedule
In Germany, the automobile industry last year is still spending more than any other sector on advertising, with more than DM 2.7 billion; this is an increase of 6.9 per cent over the previous year. In second place is media, up 13.9 per cent and totalling more than DM 2.5 billion. Following liberalisation of the… Continue reading DE: Cars In Top Place
