By Stuart Smith on November 30, 2012
LOL – now he knows what it means – must have been David Cameron’s reaction after reading Lord Leveson’s report on the culture, practice and ethics of the UK press. First came an audible sigh of relief over the vindication of his own reputation, which– despite inappropriate platonic text dalliance with La (Rebekah) Brooks, now [...]
Posted in Analysis, Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andy Coulson, David Cameron, Lord Leveson, media ethics, Murdochs, ofcom, proposals, Rebekah Brooks, Viscount Rothermere
By Staff on November 27, 2012
Much muttering in UK adland about TV copy clearance gatekeeper Clearcast’s decision to ban SodaStream’s Alex Bogusky ad knocking plastic bottle consumption. Not only do they suspect the board of Clearcast – made up of representatives of the main UK free-to-air channels (including the BBC), Sky and CNN, for some reason – of being got [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Media | Tagged Alex Bogusky, clearcast, Coke, commercials, fizzy drinks, hogarth, ofcom, Pepsi, pre-media, sodastream, uk regulator, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 27, 2012
Which looks like a pretty cunning plan. Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is planning to hive off its troubled UK newspaper business into a separate company (along with its other papers like the Wall Street Journal), leaving its ‘entertainment’ assets – Fox, Star in Asia and, presumably, its various Sky TV businesses in a bigger, supposedly [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, company split, fox, news corporation, ofcom, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on May 2, 2012
Why should we, you ask, when it’s so much fun? It is indeed fun to observe the over-mighty Murdochs, paterfamilias Rupert and once super-cocky son James suffering the slings and arrows of the commentariat, various MPs and, rather more worryingly from their point of view, legislators on either side of the Atlantic and, possibly, Australia [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, fit person, fox, James Murdoch, leveson inquiry, news corporation, news of the world, ofcom, one-eyed monster, over-mighty legislators, parliamentary committee, phone hacking, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, Sky Italia, star tv, the sun, the times
By Stephen Foster on March 9, 2012
It all seems a long time ago now but, pre-dating the phone hacking scandal’s full glory, the big media story in the UK was News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of UK pay-TV operator BSkyB it didn’t already own. News Corp was prepared to pay £8bn for the remainder of highly-profitable and [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, Chase Carey, James Murdoch, Jeremy Darroch, news corporation, News International, news of the world, ofcom, phone hacking, Rupert Murdoch, takeover
By Stephen Foster on December 15, 2011
One sometimes wonders if there’s anyone at all within the UK’s overlapping gaggle of regulators who understands anything at all about media sales. Broadcast regulator Ofcom has given the UK’s TV airtime market a clean bill of health following a ‘consultation’ it began in June. This was supposed to look at whether the way TV [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged advertisers, Channel 4, consultation, distortion, itv, ofcom, OFT, outfoor market, share deals, uk TV airtime market
By Stephen Foster on July 13, 2011
Rupert Murdoch has pulled News Corporation’s bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t own saying the ‘current climate’ makes it impossible. This happened shortly before the House of Commons was due to debate a motion opposing the bid, in reality an excuse for various MPs to line up and monster the [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged BBC, bskyb bid, competition commission, debate, itv, James Murdoch, news of the world, ofcom, phone hacking scandal, Robert Peston, Rupert Murdoch, Sunday Times, the sun, the times, uk parliament, virgin media
By Staff on July 11, 2011
UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is to write to media regulator Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading to ask them to look again at the News Corporation bid to buy satellite broadcaster BKyB on the grounds of (a) media plurality (there’s less Murdoch dominance now the News of the World has closed, so good [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged assistant commissioner John Yates, bksyb bid, competition commission, department of culture media and sport, fit and proper owner, James Murdoch, Jeremy Hunt, News International, news of the world, ofcom, office of fair trading, payments to police, phone hacking scandal, Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch
By Stephen Foster on July 7, 2011
A majority of Parliamentarians (although not PM David Cameron or culture secretary Jeremy Hunt) are casting around desperately for someone to stop sleaze-mired News Corporation’s bid for the 61 per cent of UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB it doesn’t own. Hunt says his department can’t do it because it can only look at ‘media plurality,’ media [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bksyb board, bskyb takeover bid, culture department, David Cameron, Jeremy Hunt, news corporation, News International, ofcom, phone hacking, police investigation, Rupert Murdoch, wall street, worst scandal
By James Charlton on June 6, 2011
‘Let children be children’ was launched today by Reg Bailey, chief executive of Mother’s Union, at a primary school in Balham, London. It is the second government review into the commercial world in three years, and has the personal backing of the prime minister. Advertising to children has been mentioned specifically by both David Cameron [...]
Posted in News, Politics | Tagged ads near schools, advertising, advertising association, advertising standards authority, asa, carry on camping, David Cameron, internet, let children be children, Media, mothers union, music videos, Nick Clegg, ofcom, Reg Bailey, regulation, sexy images, tv, uk government, watershed, wonderbra
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