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Summarises recent rulings by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on indecency in broadcasting, including commercials. This year (2006), the FCC has issued several fines and has expanded its de ...

Adrian Coleman, founding partner of VCCP, discusses recent trends in communication techniques, and asks whether the new EU directive permitting TV programmes to charge for product placement will make ...

The ANA (Association of National Advertisers) protests to the three main US television networks about the practice of charging ‘integration fees’ (fees for inserting a commercial into a commercial bre ...

Andy Taylor, creative director at Heresy, believes that there has never been a better time for a new idea to break into the UK marketing business, but he doubts whether infotainment and advertainment ...

Commercial Alert, a consumer group, has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require real-time disclosure of product placements in television pr ...

Explores the extent to which the UK public is empowered to make decision on how to use broadcast and new media, the findings being based on qualitative and quantitative research carried out over ten y ...

This article discusses topical regulatory issues in the light of the September 11th events - specifically privacy and media content.

The change of ministers in the Department of Culture, Media and Sport after the UK election brought with it an indication that earlier plans for the deregulation of broadcasting law (allowing further ...

Although television stations have the right to reject almost any advertisement submitted for broadcast, exercising that power to protect consumers from potentially false or misleading claims can direc ...

The roles of children in modern society are changing. Children continually assume larger roles in their homes and are becoming more involved in the shopping habits of the household. As a result, they ...

Supply of digital TV has been developing in the UK, as has the spread of Internet access: as usual, Britain has been ahead of most other countries. But the government has lagged behind in providing th ...

Towards the end of 2000, the main legal and ethical issues exercising the ANA in the USA were privacy, media violence, direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, food and tobacco advertisin ...

Television advertising in the UK is regulated by the Independent Television Commission (ITC) who have published guidelines for advertisers regarding, among other things, the manner whereby advertiseme ...

The US megamerger between media companies Viacom and CBS took place after the regulators removed their objections. This article looks at the regulatory implications of a merger between all the UK ITV ...

Strange entanglements - segmentation and formation of possible monopolies - are happening in the communications world. A ruling has been passed that Microsoft will have to be split up. The British Cha ...

The Royal Television Society's Convention in September 1999 dealt with the issue of switching from analogue to digital technology, which Minister Chris Smith envisaged for 2006-2110. The question of w ...

This study assesses the impact of the growth of satellite television in the UK on terrestrial channels. The paper outlines the debate concerning satellite television's potential role in globalisation ...

A recent survey presented to the Federal Trade Commission shows that many companies are responding to the ANA's urging to post privacy policies on their Internet sites, but the ANA urges that more is ...

The Forum for Family Friendly Programming lobbies for less violent and higher quality TV programmes in the interests of advertisers.

This study examines the possible influence of market and station variables and whether a TV station manager's personal ethics and social concerns influence the acceptance of AIDS prevention informatio ...

Discusses the recent application (in the US) of film age-based content ratings (`parental guidance' etc.) to television shows. Argues that it is too early to tell how effective this rating system will ...

Discusses the likely effects of regulation of the US cable industry. Presents evidence from a telephone survey of 1,000 adults including 612 cable subscribers. Findings: 1) lower charges for a second ...

Under the heading `Victorian Television', a memorable Wall Street Journal indictment of British TV, a few months ago, noted the follies of the Broadcasting Act and the `channel auction'. But, in fact, ...

France has two state-owned and four private terrestrial TV networks. Audience shares differ greatly; adspend on TV has been rising fast but is now slowing. Yet programme costs continue to rise and all ...

The IBA (Independent Broadcasting Authority) is drafting a code for the ITC (Independent Television Commission) in response to the new regulatory environment for programme sponsorship resulting from t ...

The Commission of the European Community has approved a Directive applying to trans-frontier broadcasting, whose real purpose seems to be to protect local production and erect barriers against imports ...

The Advertising Association President's Lecture, 1985. Discusses a number of issues relating to the international legal context for advertising, the opinions of the Human Rights Commission, attitudes ...

Ultimately, any decisions on controls for the new broadcasting technologies of tomorrow, and in particular for satellite broadcasting, will be politically inspired. This paper points out, however, tha ...