The Office of Telecommunications, OFTEL, has the job of regulating conditional access services for digital TV. OFTEL issued draft guidelines last December, aimed at ensuring access to conditional access services is fair reasonable and non-discriminatory between broadcasters *Oftel Aims For Fair Digital TV.The response to this draft led Don Cruickshank, director general of telecommunications, to… Continue reading Watchdog Barks At Digital TV
This week saw the second leg of both Champions League matches recently featured in Newsline‘s Programme Analysis of Live Football matches Programme Analysis: Live Football Matches W/E 09/03/97. This time both Newcastle and Manchester United played away, but still managed to achieve respectable audience figures. Manchester United verses Portuguese team FC Porto was watched by… Continue reading TV Viewing Summary W/E 23/03/97
The Times gave 5 seven out of ten for its first night’s programming. The digital countdown was branded ‘considerably less exciting than the Brazilian Grand Prix showing on ITV or Easter Songs of Praise on BBC1.’ The actual opening show was described as a ‘shameless half hour of self-promotion’, but then The Times decided that… Continue reading Channel 5 – What The Papers Say
IPC’s Music and Sport Group has announced a major restructure of its advertising sales operation. Siobhan Fitzpatrick is promoted to the key role of ad manager of IPC’s men’s lifestyle titles, including Eat Soup and Loaded, from ad manager for Vox, while Bruce Sandell is promoted to ad manager of the group’s new music and… Continue reading IPC Announces Advertising Restructure
Channel 5 was celebrating yesterday, having captured 5.8% of the prime time audience. Agency estimates show that 2.6 million people tuned into 5’s opening show on Sunday night and 1.8 million viewers stayed on to watch the first episode of the channel’s soap Family Affairs.Viewing Figures For Channel 5’s First Hour On Air Time Adults… Continue reading Channel 5 Pleased As Punch
Jessica Larive’s report on the Green Paper on Commercial Communications is now scheduled to be presented at the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee meeting on 21/22 April; its adoption in committee stage has been postponed until 21/22 May. Adoption of the draft report by the EP is expected to take place during the… Continue reading EU: Larive Report To Be Presented
On 26 March the Independent Television Commission – which oversees commercial broadcasting – published its new code of sponsorship, which takes effect immediately. The rules have been adjusted in order, says the ITC, to make it “possible to widen the scope for sponsorship without the risk of sponsors excessively diverting the editorial agenda for commercial… Continue reading UK: ITC Adjusts Sponsorship Code
BBC Online’s first commercial Web site, www.topgear.com, goes live on 9 April 1997.The Top Gear Magazine site will offer SuperTest, an interactive ride with Jeremy Clarkson, as he road tests his favourite sports cars. This game comes complete with video-clips, photos, specs and the all important speedometer, as well as authentic engine sounds.There will also… Continue reading Top Gear Arrives On The Super Highway
The Broadcasting Standards Council’s Complaints Bulletin has published it complaints bulletin for March.Billy Connolly’s World Tour of Australia received 75 complaints from viewers about bad language. Connolly is known for his foul tongue, his previous series based on a tour of Scotland received complaints, but the Council rejected them. This time round the comedian was… Continue reading Billy Connolly Fails To Get Off Scot Free
J Walter Thompson is reported to have signed a sponsorship deal with the Oxford Street Traders Association on behalf of an undisclosed client. JWT has booked two months exposure every year for the next three years, including the turn of the century. The sponsorship will include Christmas lights and decorations and it is rumoured that… Continue reading Oxford Street Sponsored Into The Next Century
