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Amendments to the rules on advertising breaks have been announced by the Independent Television Commission which will allow cable, satellite and digital stations to carry more teleshopping advertising. The changes will also open up the possibility of licensing for self-promotional channels and will come into effect immediately. The following changes are made: Teleshopping The EC "Television Without Frontiers (TWF)" Directive has been revised (see IRIS 1997-7: 6-7) to allow up to a maximum of eight teleshopping 'windows' per day. A teleshopping window can last for a maximum duration of fifteen minutes...

The Broadcasting Act 1990 (s. 43) made a distinction between domestic, non-domestic and foreign satellite services. The first two required a licence from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) and there were several restrictions on the ownership of licenses to provide domestic satellite services. However the Court of Justice of the EC found, in a judgement dated 10 September 1996 (Case C-222/94, see IRIS 1996-10: 5-6 and IRIS 1997-3: 14), that the UK had failed to fulfil its obligations under the `Television without Frontiers' Directive by misinterpreting the basis on which satellite broadcasters...

The Chancellor has announced in his first Budget a new tax relief for British films. This will allow 100% write off for the expenditure of a British film which costs £15 million or less to make, when the film is completed. This applies to production costs incurred or acquisition costs of a film completed and acquired after 2nd July 1997, even if a film started before that date. A qualifying British film is a film certified under the Films Act 1985 by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (the former Department of National Heritage) as a British film. There are detailed criteria to be met...

The Independent Television Commission, the UK's regulatory authority for broadcasting, on 24 June awarded licences for multiplexes (blocks of frequencies) for digital terrestrial television. A group of three licences was awarded to British Digital Broadcasting (BDB), a consortium comprised at the time of the application of Carlton Communications, the Granada Group and BSkyB. A competing application from Digital Television Network (DTN) was unsuccessful. The Commission had to apply a number of criteria set out in the Broadcasting Act 1996. It considered that the DTN application included more innovative...

The Broadcasting Act 1990 provides the basis for specific programme and other requirements for the 18 terrestrial TV licences granted by the Independent Television Commission (ITC): the 15 regional ITV licensees (Channel 3), GMTV (breakfast-time licensee), Channel 4 and Public Teletext. The ITC is charged to review annually where licensees have failed to comply with these licence conditions. To meet this obligation, the ITC has now published its 1996 Annual Performance Reviews. Teletext received a favourable report and GMTV was congratulated on rectifying the complaints highlighted in the previous...