06 Sep 2001
The government is aiming to reach the 20% of people who don't have
smoke alarms in their homes with a hard-hitting campaign through Euro
RSCG Wnek Gosper. The two 30-second TV ads depict several memorial
objects such as flowers, a park bench, and a gravestone. But each item
bears the excuse ...
27 Sep 2001
The Conservative Party has accused the government of wasting the
money it spent on advertising to highlight pensions and retirement
savings, following the launch of the second phase of its campaign. The
ads, featuring dogs talking about pensions and retirement, were created
by Delaney Lund Knox Warren ...
13 Sep 2001
| by Claire Billings,
London - The Government has this afternoon refused to approve the BBC's plans to launch a digital...decision from the Government since the beginning of the summer. An announcement was first delayed until after the general election in June, then the Government ordered a second round of consultation ...
to digital. The Government wants to switch off the analogue signal by 2010, although this target is looking ...
21 Sep 2001
| by MediaWeek
The Government has blocked the £16.1m purchase of eight free weekly titles by Johnston Press from Trinity Mirror, on competition grounds. Trinity announced in July it planned to sell the titles in Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire and Derbyshire ...
14 Sep 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - US regulator the Federal Communications Commission has launched a review of media ownership rules, which could see TV stations taking stakes in newspapers in the same markets.
21 Sep 2001
CRCA: The Commercial Radio Companies Association has criticised the
Government for approving all five of the BBC's proposed digital radio
channels. CRCA chief executive Paul Brown said it damaged enterprise and
undermined competition. Proposals include a speech channel, one aimed at
young black ...
20 Sep 2001
| by POPPY BRECH
for promoting the
BBC's own digital radio and TV services.
Duncan said he would expect the government ...
21 Sep 2001
on government issues.
To ensure policies are delivered correctly, there will continue to be a
need ...
14 Sep 2001
| by JOE LEPPER
at the IPR Local Government Conference.
The network, the first of its kind, aims to save those ...
, IPR local government group member, who developed the
scheme along with group vice-chairman Mike ...
in local government, including CEO
level.
...
20 Sep 2001
| by Parliamentary correspondent,
to become more flexible if it is to retain its slice of the Government's ad budget....that the more flexibility television companies offered, the more likely the Government was to use them. "The key ...