10 Dec 2004
April 2004: Ofcom begins publishing consultation documents on the future of public-service broadcasting - and in particular on how it should be funded. Its most controversial idea, which provokes debate across the autumn, is that all channels, not just the BBC, should be able to apply for centrally held ...
03 Dec 2004
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
Ministers have been forced to drop a controversial proposal to ban agencies from government...John Reid, the health secretary, proposed the move as the Government drew up plans to curb junk-food ads aimed at children.
But he has backed down after being warned by his civil servants ...
will adopt a "softly, softly" approach under which they will urge agencies working for government departments ...
03 Dec 2004
Earlier this year, the EC ordered the Danish broadcaster TV2/Danmark to repay Euro 84.4 million to the Danish government after its licence-fee model was ruled unlawful. If the EC rules against RTE and TG4, the broadcaster will have to repay millions of euros in licence-fee revenue and public funding, and the cost ...
03 Dec 2004
-ups to improve the situation.
This issue is central to the EC's review of the WPP/Grey deal. The EC is believed ...
03 Dec 2004
THE LOWDOWN
A colourful range of spoof household products is at the centre of a new government campaign ...
26 Nov 2004
| by Staff,
will be the second phase of marketing activity as part of the government's bid to encourage the employment of disabled people and counter discrimination.
Under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, the government ...
26 Nov 2004
In a bid to pre-empt the Government heath White Paper, the IPA Outdoor committee is proposing...are not sold by daypart, the IPA hopes that the move would circumvent a total Government ban, which has ...
26 Nov 2004
| by Our Parliamentary correspondent
The Government is to call a review of its campaign on sexual health and plans to increase...criticism that the Government has not devoted enough money to sexual health, ministers have decided ...
Aids awareness campaign, the Government is thought likely to adopt a more "softly softly" approach. Its ...
26 Nov 2004
will be the second phase of marketing activity as part of the Government's bid to encourage the employment of disabled people and counter discrimination.
Under the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act, the Government ...
26 Nov 2004
| by Rachel Gardner
While health pressure groups may have welcomed the Government's Choosing Health White Paper, which ...
that the Government hopes will turn Britain into a healthier nation by encouraging behavioural change.
Along ...
has been done, the Government plans formal regulation.
The TV companies, which earn more than £220 ...