All BBC articles – Page 430

  • Burton and Taylor
    News

    Appreciation for all BBC TV channels falls

    2014-07-21T13:45:00Z

    The BBC’s main television channels have all posted declines in audience appreciation and reach as Delivering Quality First (DQF) began to bite, according to new figures.

  • Peaky Blinders
    News

    Indies improve BBC WoCC performance

    2014-07-21T13:27:00Z

    The indie sector’s performance in the Window of Creative Competition (WoCC) improved last year – adding fuel to the fire of the BBC’s decision to scrap quotas.

  • BBC Proms
    Ratings

    BBC2's Proms open with 580k

    2014-07-21T12:57:00Z

    FRIDAY: BBC2’s First Night of the Proms audience fell from last year’s opener while Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop leapfrogged Channel 5’s On the Yorkshire Buses.

  • Evan Davis
    News

    Newsnight names Evan Davis as Paxman replacement

    2014-07-21T12:37:00Z

    Radio 4 Today programme presenter Evan Davis has been hired as the replacement for Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.

  • Doctor Who
    News

    BBCW contributions to BBC rise £20m

    2014-07-21T11:10:00Z

    BBC Worldwide returned around £20m more to the corporation in 2013/2014 than the previous year and upped its investment in BBC commissions.

  • Diane Coyle
    News

    Trust: BBC is back on its feet

    2014-07-21T11:00:00Z

    The BBC has “got back on its feet” by cutting costs and reducing senior management headcount after a tumultuous 2012/13 period, according to the BBC Trust.

  • Dame Fiona Reynolds
    News

    BBC cuts payoffs to £25m

    2014-07-21T11:00:00Z

    The BBC handed out nearly £26m in staff payoffs in its 2013/14 financial year as the scandal over severance payments raged on.

  • the-commonwealth-games-2014
    News

    BBC pay strike cancelled

    2014-07-18T17:14:00Z

    A planned strike for BBC workers on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games in July has been cancelled following a successful union negotiations with management today.

  • EastEnders
    News

    BBC 'must do more for young and diverse audiences'

    2014-07-17T12:09:00Z

    The BBC’s main television channels are losing touch with young and diverse audiences and must do more to stand out from the crowd, according to a BBC Trust report.

  • James Harding
    News

    BBC News to cut 415 jobs

    2014-07-17T11:24:00Z

    BBC News is to cut 415 full-time roles as part of a wide-ranging restructure designed to save £48m per year.

  • Panorama North  Korea
    News

    BBC culls in-house Panorama team

    2014-07-17T11:18:00Z

    The BBC has culled its entire in-house Panorama reporting team as part of wide-ranging job cuts across its news division.

  • Bad Education
    News

    Trust: BBC3 lags behind online rivals

    2014-07-17T11:15:00Z

    The BBC Trust has laid bare the challenge the corporation faces in transforming BBC3 into a digital proposition, arguing the channel is “yet to establish itself as an online destination”.

  • The-Fucking-Fulfords
    News

    BBC3 brings back C4’s Fulfords for doc series

    2014-07-17T10:40:00Z

    Aristocratic family the Fulfords are to allow television cameras back into their lives 10 years after Channel 4’s Bafta-nominated Cutting Edge doc The F***ing Fulfords.

  • New-Broadcasting-House
    News

    BBC launches file delivery push

    2014-07-17T07:50:00Z

    The BBC has kick-started its efforts to build an entirely file-based delivery and archive system just over a year after scrapping the Digital Media Initiative (DMI).

  • Strikes
    News

    BBC in battle to avoid strike during Games

    2014-07-17T07:45:00Z

    The BBC will sit down with the joint broadcasting unions this week as it bids to ward off strike action during the opening day of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

  • Chris Curtis
    Comment

    BBC faces some tough questions

    2014-07-17T07:40:00Z

    How the corporation tackles them could decide its future direction, says Chris Curtis

  • Tony Hall
    News

    BBC to meet C4 to discuss technology proposals

    2014-07-17T07:38:00Z

    The BBC is ready to discuss sharing with Channel 4 its resources and expertise around developing video-on-demand technology in the UK.

  • Watchdog
    News

    BBC Productions eyes ‘creative headroom’

    2014-07-17T07:30:00Z

    BBC Productions’ factual and daytime division hopes to revel in the “new creative headroom” afforded by the proposed quota overhaul, while remaining true to its traditional public service values.

  • Masterchef
    News

    BBC in-house fallout continues

    2014-07-17T07:29:00Z

    Further details of the BBC’s radical production shake-up emerged this week, as some in-house producers voiced fears for their future in a commercial environment.

  • Gerry Morrissey
    News

    Bectu seeks meeting with DG over BBC plans

    2014-07-17T07:21:00Z

    Bectu has demanded a meeting with BBC director general Tony Hall after raising concerns over the corporation’s plans to radically transform in-house production.