On 5 February the European Commission proposed rules to ensure that major sporting events will not be shown exclusively to restricted audiences (pay-per-view). The proposed regulations – to be incorporated in a revised version of the TV Without Frontiers Directive – will allow Member States to guarantee free televised access to major sporting events. Pay-per-view… Continue reading EU: Oreja Seeks To Protect Public Access
Following the ITC’s decision to relax regulations on masthead programming *ITC To Revise Sponsorship Code,Ideal Home magazine and Carlton Select are producing the television series, Ideal Home Cooks. This will be the UK’s first masthead TV programme and will go on-air in March. The collaboration will also include cross-editorial promotions.….Granada Sky Broadcasting has signed a… Continue reading Ideal Home Gets Its Own TV Show
Representatives of advertisers, agencies, media and self-regulation bodies met at Corsendonk, Belgium on 3-4 February to review progress in European advertising self-regulation and to draw up plans for the next 5 years. The seminar reached the following conclusions: Good progress has been made since the first Corsendonk seminar in November 1991. The European Advertising Standards… Continue reading EU: Corsendonk II Re-Sets Priorities
Three of Britain’s biggest television broadcasters – Carlton Communications, British Sky Broadcasting and the Granada Group – have joined forces to bid for the right to launch Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) in the UK. The consortium – called British Digital Broadcasting (BDB) – has also reached agreement with the BBC to broadcast a number of… Continue reading UK: Digital Terrestrial Television
The Family Channel is relaunching as Challenge TV today. Challenge TV is a gameshow led channel that will broadcast from 5pm to 5am daily.A full cable and satellite round-up for 1996 will be available on Newsline on Tuesday, while interim results for BSkyB are released on Wednesday.Friday sees the publication of Rajar’s quarterly results. These… Continue reading The Week Ahead
The Commission held a hearing on the protection of minors and human dignity in information and audiovisual services on 4 February in Brussels. This followed the publication last year of its Green Paper on the same subject and its Communication on illegal and harmful content on the internet. The main issues for discussion included the… Continue reading EU: Protection Of Minors And Human Dignity
The Canadian company Tri-Vision Electronics – which specialises in producing remote control devices – is reported to have purchased (for an unspecified sum) the worldwide rights to exploit the V-chip, the technological filtering device, from its inventor, Professor Tim Collins.
£400 million was spent on outdoor advertising in 1996. According to Concord’s Outdoor Trends Survey, this figure represents 6% of total display advertising.The survey also reported that tobacco spending on outdoor advertising fell, while spending on alcoholic drinks remained stable.Concord: 0171 543 4444
The Commission held a hearing on the protection of minors and human dignity in information and audiovisual services on 4 February in Brussels. This followed the publication last year of its Green Paper on the same subject and its Communication on illegal and harmful content on the internet. The main issues for discussion included the… Continue reading EU: Protection Of Minors And Human Dignity
Following the EP Legal Affairs Committee’s vote on the ISDN proposals in December, the Medina report was adopted by the Parliament on 16 January 1997 with 11 amendments. The Commission has been asked to write an opinion on these amendments, some of which are very unhelpful to the direct marketing industry. For example, the text… Continue reading Eu: Isdn Directive
