MondayMediaTel’s new cable and satellite database goes live this afternoon.TuesdayJames Walker, media development director of Advanced Techniques Group Worldwide, talks to Newsline about JWT’s new company and its current and future research projects.Portsmouth and Sunderland Newspapers’ results are publishedThe Advertising Authority’s annual ad spend statistics are due to be published, however, they were due to… Continue reading The Week Ahead
RAJAR Insight is a series of publications from the Radio Advertising Bureau, designed to use analysis of RAJAR, alongside original research, to further understanding into how people listen to radio.Qualitative research has been commissioned to ‘get under the skin’ of listeners’ feeling as they dial between stations.RAB: 0171 306 2555
New Media Age and The Times have announced the winners of their first ever New Media Effectiveness Awards. The top prize, the Grand Prix award, went to Amnesty International for its Refuge! Human Rights Have No Boarders site http://www.refuge.amnesty.org. The site, designed by Bates Interactive, was praised for being simple, but chillingly effective at delivering… Continue reading Web Award Winners
Peter van Gelder, managing director of Teletext, has been appointed as managing director of British Interactive Broadcasting. BIB is the joint venture between BSkyB, BT, Midland Bank and Matsuchita created to deliver digital interactive services to viewers via satellite *BSkyB Launches Digital Services Company.*Subscribers only
The ITC has published its Code of Conduct on the operation of Electronic Programme Guides, EPGs.EPGs are the services through which viewers are offered programme listings and choices. They will become more important as the number of programme services increases and the technology becomes more sophisticated.EPG providers are required, by the new Code, to ensure… Continue reading Electric Signals From ITC
The ITC’s May report into programme complaints and interventions covers the British National Party’s party election broadcast. 87 viewers complained to the ITC about the broadcast. A large number of these complaints concerned the content of the broadcast, including a sequence which questioned whether a multi-racial society was “what our war heroes fought for.”Each of… Continue reading ITC Recieves BNP Political Broadcast Complaints
Nick Chapman, managing director of BBC Worldwide’s publishing and multimedia arm, is leaving the Corporation. The restructuring of the commercial division led to his job being made redundant; no replacement is being sought.The Periodical Publishers Association, will also be bidding farewell to an established face, Nick Mazur, director of communications, is leaving after eight years,… Continue reading Out With The Old In With The New
On 4 June Directive 97/7 (on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts) has been published in the OJ (L 144/19). The Directive is to be transposed into the national laws of the MS within three years. The Directive imposes substantial obligations on all suppliers of goods and services in the EU to… Continue reading EU: Distance Contracts Directive published
Outrageous talk show host Howard Stern is presenting his first ever radio show in the UK next Monday on Capital FM.Stern will be presenting Drivetime Showtime with David Jensen.Capital : 0171 766 6155
On 3 June Karel Van Miert, commissioner for competition, said that the Commission and the UK authorities are concerned about the bid by BDB for terrestrial digital broadcasting licenses in the UK. BDB is a consortium comprising BskyB, Carlton Communications and the Granada Group. BDB recently bid for digital broadcasting licenses from the UK authorities… Continue reading EU: Van Miert warns BDB
