The Independent Television Commission has issued a formal warning to Carlton Television in relation to an episode of its regional programme London Bridge which showed a rape scene.The ITC concluded the episode was in serious breach of the ITC Programme Code because the scene was “unacceptably extended and excessively detailed”. This is the first time… Continue reading ITC Issues Warning Against Carlton
The weekly communications news magazine, New Media Age, has been revamped. The masthead is bolder with the title appearing in different colours. It now appears in a non-glossy format and pagination has increased from 16 pages to 24 pages. There are also additional sections which are Finance, Data Page and Gadfly & Mole. Finance looks… Continue reading Magazine Briefs
The ITC has awarded the Central Cumbria local delivery franchise licence to Central Cumbria Cable & Telecoms Ltd. A bid of £7756.98 was made and Central Cumbria Cable & Telecoms are committed to provide 70,518 homes by the year 2002.The ITC is also inviting applications for the local delivery franchises of Thanet and Canterbury and… Continue reading ITC Awards Central Cumbria Licence
United News & Media put in a strong performance on Tuesday when it announced its £592m purchase of exhibition group Blenheim, rising 40 to 693.5p.BSkyB also rose reasonably steadily throughout the week.. On Monday it advanced 8.5 to 658.5p on speculation that DFI, the German pay TV channel was about to buy a 5% stake.… Continue reading Sharewatch W/E 18/10/96
Nynex CableComms releases its third quarter results tomorrow. Nynex’s *Nynex Losses Decrease, published in August, showed an increase in revenue from its cable television service by 74% to £29.2m. Penetration rate also increased from 18.8% to 19.6%.September NRS figures are released on Wednesday. MediaTel subscribers will be able to access the figures via Talking Windows.… Continue reading The Week Ahead
According to a report by NOP at last week’s Research ’96 conference, Internet users are more interested in receiving good information than fancy graphics and clear layouts. In a survey of 3.6m Internet users, 43% said that information was the most important feature on the Internet with ease of use coming in closely at 37%.… Continue reading Internet Users Prefer Information To Graphics
The ITC has decided that Scottish Television’s acquisition of Caledonian Publishing *STV Takes Over Caledonian does not operate against the public interest and can go ahead.The ITC and Office of Fair Trading launched a public interest test regarding the takeover as part of the provisions for the new cross-media ownership rules which were introduced by… Continue reading STV Gets Approval For Caledonian Takeover
Virgin Radio has announced a change in its daytime line-up which sees Russ ‘n Jono’s Breakfast Show extended an extra hour to 10am.The changes have also resulted in Jeremy Clark, who joined the station six weeks ago as overnight presenter, moving into a new afternoon slot between 1 and 4pm. Graham Dene, currently host of… Continue reading Virgin Radio Gets New Daytime Schedule
According to this week’s Campaign Paul Twivy, former chief executive of Bates Dorland, is threatening to sue the agency over alleged breach of contract.The wrangle concerns Twivy’s departure from the agency in September *Dorland Chief Exec Leaves. He is claiming wrongful dismissal, accusing Michael Bungey, Dorland’s chairman, of reneging on a promise to make him… Continue reading Twivy Issues Writ Against Dorlands
According to agency estimates total TV ad revenue for September reached £184.71m, an increase of 2.29% year-on-year. ITV’s revenue remained reasonably static, increasing 0.18% to £141.71m, while Channel 4 rose by 9.9% to £43m. The ratio between ITV and Channel 4 for September was 77:23.Overall among the ITV contractors there was very little change. Only… Continue reading TV Revenue – September
