All articles by Matthew Campelli – Page 52
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Sky News' MH17 coverage receives 120 complaints
Ofcom has received over 100 complaints about a Sky News broadcast which showed reporter Colin Brazier rummaging through the belongings of MH17 crash victims.
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BBC2's Proms open with 580k
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.
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Newsnight names Evan Davis as Paxman replacement
Radio 4 Today programme presenter Evan Davis has been hired as the replacement for Jeremy Paxman on Newsnight.
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C4 Education orders youth-skewing slate
Raw TV and Firecracker Films are among the indies to have picked up commissions from Channel 4 Education as the broadcaster launches an online hub, Am I Normal.
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C4 orders fast turnaround on flight MH17 tragedy
Channel 4 has commissioned a fast turnaround Dispatches investigating the tragedy of the Malaysia-bound flight shot down in Ukraine.
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Robert Marsh to chair BCMA
Former Zodiak Active and Fremantle Media exec Robert Marsh has been hired as global chairman for the Branded Content Marketing Association (BCMA).
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Posh nannies reach 2m
THURSDAY: ITV’s documentary about Britain’s Poshest Nannies could only muster half the channel’s slot average as Celebrity Masterchef drew its best audience of the series.
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C4 launches Singer Takes It All app
Channel 4 has launched the playalong app for its forthcoming entertainment format The Singer Takes It All ahead of the show’s August debut.
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BBC culls in-house Panorama team
The BBC has culled its entire in-house Panorama reporting team as part of wide-ranging job cuts across its news division.
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BSkyB sells ITV stake to Liberty Global for £481m
BSkyB has sold a 6.4% share in ITV to Liberty Global for £481m, as the US cable company ramps up its presence in the UK.
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BBC to meet C4 to discuss technology proposals
The BBC is ready to discuss sharing with Channel 4 its resources and expertise around developing video-on-demand technology in the UK.
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Immigration to get Benefits Street treatment
Love Productions wants to build on the success of controversial series Benefits Street by creating another UK-wide debate, this time around immigration.
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Surge in indie digital income
The indie sector’s digital revenues tripled to £100m last year on the back of more “credible” moneymaking opportunities in the space, according to a Pact report.
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Ofcom hits Discovery with £100k fine
Ofcom has fined Discovery £100,000 for broadcasting several episodes of Deadly Women which featured dramatic reconstructions of torture, knife attacks and dismemberment before the 9pm watershed.
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Too Many Immigrants transports 3.5m
TUESDAY: Too Many Immigrants fell around 2m short of BBC1’s slot average - as BBC3’s Glasgow Girls outperformed Channel 4’s Utopia.
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Trevor McDonald meets mafia for ITV
Trevor McDonald is to follow up his hard-hitting prison documentaries by delving into the murky world of the American mafia in a two-part series for ITV.
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C4 orders classical music drink & drugs doc
Northern Irish indie Big Mountain is to explore the lives of a group of 10 classical musicians struggling with alcohol and drug addiction in a Channel 4 documentary.
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Creative industries fund 300 BAME interns
300 black and Asian minority ethnic (BAME) youngsters are to secure internships in the creative industries after the government pledged £4m to boost diversity.
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Creative skills fund set for £37m boost
Businesses from the creative sector are to plough £17m into skills training, boosting the UK’s total investment pot to £37m.
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On The Yorkshire Buses beats Million Pound Drop
FRIDAY: Channel 5 ob-doc On The Yorkshire Buses drove off with an audience of 1.2m – just above the return of The Million Pound Drop on Channel 4.