All Funding articles – Page 28
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NewsMaverick eyes brand-funding boost for YouTube channel
Maverick TV, Little Dot Studios and talent agency Gleam are planning to create more brand-supported content on Daily Mix after the YouTube channel passed 500,000 subscribers.
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NewsFuture BBC kids’ boss must fight for funding
Joe Godwin’s successor as director of BBC Children’s must “stand up and shout” for the division during next year’s charter renewal negotiations, according to kids’ TV producers.
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NewsCarl Hall to bring film funding model to TV
Warehouse 51, the company set up by former Sky Vision boss Carl Hall, is looking to bring film-financing models to television as part of a strategy to umbrella film-makers.
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NewsCommissioning & Funding Forum round-up
Click for a round-up of Broadcast’s Commissioning & Funding Forum featuring BBC’s Charlotte Moore, ITV’s Peter Fincham and Channel 4’s Jay Hunt.
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NewsNI Screen reveals £43m funding pot
Northern Ireland is bidding to tempt more Game of Thrones-style high-end TV and film productions to the country through a £43m, four-year investment plan.
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NewsYouView secures £100m funding
The future of YouView has been secured after all seven partners, including the terrestrial broadcasters, committed to the connected-TV platform for a further five years.
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NewsFacebook VoD platform wins funding
Facebook VoD firm Screenburn has secured £500,000 of investment and hired Zodiak Rights boss Steve Macallister to its board.
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NewsYouView funding under threat
YouView’s broadcaster shareholders, including the BBC, are considering reducing their investment in the IPTV service as funding renegotiations gather pace.
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NewsLenny Henry: diversity needs dedicated funding
Actor and writer Lenny Henry has called for broadcasters to ring-fence money to increase BAME representation in the TV industry.
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NewsWarner Bros extends Mip pitch funding
UK indies are being encouraged to enter the Mip Formats International Pitch 2014 event after Warner Bros renewed its deal to provide €25,000 in development funding.
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NewsBBC to boost arts funding by 20%
The BBC is to boost funding for television arts programming by 20% as part of plans to put it “back at the heart” of the corporation.
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NewsLovelive secures £1.7m funding
UK multiplatform indie Lovelive has secured £1.7m of funding from investors including former Endemol boss Ynon Kreiz to help it expand globally.
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NewsIndies split over C4 funding
Indies are divided over Channel 4’s plans to invest in fledgling indies.
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NewsChildren’s pilot uses Kickstarter funding
Bafta-nominated director Ed Kellie has raised £16,000 via crowd-funding site Kickstarter to create a children’s animation pilot narrated by Chris Packham.
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NewsFunding to boost Shazam's TV push
Social discovery service Shazam will look to expand further into television and move into Latin America after receiving a $40m (£27m) investment from Carlos Slim’s America Movil.
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NewsYouTube to stop funding original UK channels
YouTube’s investment in UK-based original content channels is effectively over because the videosharing platform believes it has proved that it can support sustainable content businesses.
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NewsS4C funding maintained by government
Welsh broadcaster S4C has warded off threatened cuts to the £6.7m it receives from the government.
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NewsFormer S4C boss warns of "grave danger" over funding
Former S4C chief executive Arwel Ellis Owen has claimed that the government may cut all of its £6.7m funding for the Welsh language broadcaster.
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NewsChill launches episodic funding
Online distribution platform Chill is moving into the next stage of crowdfunding as it launches episodic funding for its first original series, Jason Mewes-fronted Vigilante Diaries.