Welcome to the 2006 edition of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s (DTT) Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions for the global media and entertainment sectors.
These predictions are the result of comprehensive research throughout 2005, the principal elements of which include:
input from DTT’s member firms’ 5,000 TMT partners, directors and senior managers around the world;
conversations with DTT’s member firms’ clients;
dialog with leading industry and financial analysts.
Accompanying each of these ten predictions is the DTT TMT group’s bottom line: the suggestions to the sector for exploiting each key development that the coming year holds. DTT’s TMT group trusts that this guidance makes this report a valuable reference for your company....
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The Advertising Standards Authority has upheld a complaint that ASDA’s advert was misleading because it was highlighting the benefits to consumers of its 100 day guarantee.
The Court of Appeal decision handed down earlier this week in Flood v Times Newspapers Ltd has landed a telling blow on attempts to erode the law’s insistence on compliance with the highest ethical standards of journalism.
On 8 June 2010, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, outlined his plans to introduce a far lighter touch regulation for local media outlets.
In May this year, Taoiseach Brian Cowen (the Irish Prime Minister), announced that the Irish Government is to tax online betting and to introduce licences for overseas betting providers.
The North Carolina Senate and House ratified House Bill 80, a law that is designed to close loopholes in the state's ban on video poker machines by prohibiting "the use of electronic machines and devices for sweepstakes purposes.
The conflict between a journalist’s right to safeguard his or her source materials from compelled disclosure and a litigant’s right to obtain discovery in aid of a foreign proceeding is at the core of "In re Chevron Corp.", 10-1918 (2d Cir.), a case currently pending before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Despite the challenging global economic environment, the European football market grew to €15.7 billion in 2008/09. The ‘big five’ leagues’ revenues (England’s Premier League, France’s Ligue 1, Germany’s Bundesliga, Italy’s Serie A and Spain’s La Liga) grew by 3% to €7.9 billion.
On 28 June 2010, Ofcom launched a consultation into an amended Broadcasting Code (the "Code") which, when implemented, will allow for product placement in UK television programmes for the first time.
