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By Staff on May 4, 2012
More strife has emerged in the ever-interesting UK outdoor industry with Alastair Lines of Canary Wharf Media accusing industry trade body the Outdoor Media Centre of overplaying the benefit new digital sites are bringing to the wider industry, neglecting the promotion of traditional outdoor formats (still the vast majority) and including what he calls the [...]
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By Staff on January 31, 2012
WPP’s ever-expanding gaggle of media companies – Mediacom, Mindshare, MEC, GroupM and Kinetic – have been on the regulators’ radar somewhere for some time (WPP probably wouldn’t be allowed to buy Aegis for example) but Sir Martin Sorrell’s outfit probably never expected a challenge in the north of England. But now the UK’s Office of [...]
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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 March 3, 2011
And a pretty good job he makes of it although it’s still hard to see why he didn’t just kick the controversial deal by which Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation wants to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it doesn’t already own into the long grass (refer it to the Competition Commission) weeks ago. Unless [...]
Posted in Finance, Media, News, Politics | Tagged bskyb, culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, news corporation, ofcom, office of fair trading, Rupert Murdoch, sky, sky news
By Stephen Foster on February 3, 2011
The UK Office of Fair Trading’s eagerly-awaited report into competition in the outdoor industry more or less clears the big agency buyers – WPP’s Kinetic and Aegis’ Posterscope – of distorting competition even though the two companies control over 80 per cent of the agency market. Neither does it seem too worried about the dominance [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged aegis, cbs outdoor, Clear Channel, commissions, competition, JC Decaux, kinetic, office of fair trading, OFT, posterscope, Primesight, rebates, uk poster market, WPP
By Stephen Foster on October 14, 2010
The Office of Fair Trading is to be axed after forty or so years and its supervisory duties will be rolled in to the Competition Commission, to which it refers issues it thinks need investigating anyway. So quite sensible then although critics point out that the CC deals with very big things so the OFTs [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, Politics | Tagged advertising standards authority, bonfire of the qangos, competition commission, office of fair trading, Sir Gordon Borrie
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