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Jazz FM loses 200,000 listeners
Jazz FM has had one of its worst radio listenership results, losing almost a quarter of its audience in three months. The audience share for the London station, owned by the Guardian Media Group, dropped from 2.2% to 1.7% as 204,000 listeners abandoned it. The decline could lead to a ...
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106 Century FM ups share ahead of sale
106 Century FM, the station Capital Radio is to sell in order to secure its merger with GWR, has lost nearly 20,000 of its audience but has upped its share of listening. The Nottingham-based station reported an audience of 302,000, but grew its listening share to 6.1% due to an ...
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Kerrang! draws 17% more listeners
Kerrang!, the Emap-owned rock station that launched in the West Midlands last June, has shown positive growth in its second Rajar report. The station achieved a 17% rise in listeners in the final quarter of last year to report an audience of 299,000. The Kerrang! digital radio ...
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Local radio co nears million mark
The Local Radio Company, the group launched early last year by former Jazz FM chief executive Richard Wheatley, has recorded a combined audience of nearly 900,000 around the country. The latest figure includes results from LRC's recent acquisitions of Spirit FM in South West Sussex and KCR FM in Liverpool.
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Virgin duo make strong Rajar debut
Digital stations Virgin Radio Classic Rock and Virgin Radio Groove reported positive results in their debut Rajar appearance. The SMG-owned stations together attracted 239,000 listeners, a strong result considering they are only available in London on DAB radio.
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Comment: can Magic keep up the act?
The battle for dominance in the competitive London market has long been considered a two-horse race.
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US exec remakes three UK shows
The US executive behind the American remake of The Officehas lined up three more adaptations of British series as his next projects.
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Takeaway lures Scandinavia
Granada International has sold the formats for flagship ITV gameshow Saturday Night TakeAwayand makeover show Monster Garageinto Scandinavia.
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Initial to make Times show
Endemol-owned indie Initial has received a rare commission from the Times Newspaper group to produce a monthly entertainment show.
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Screentime Partners in Russian deal
Screentime Partners has signed three format deals that will see Wife Swap, To Catch a Thiefand Popstarsremade for Russian viewers. A 26-episode run of RDF Media's Wife Swapwill be made by Studio 2V for the TNT network. Lion ...
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Target buys Jackson re-enactments
Target Entertainment has picked up the international rights to a raft of new programmes including reconstructions of Michael Jackson's forthcoming trial. The series of 30-minute courtroom re-enactments will be shown on Sky One and Sky News in the UK and Target is sharing rights with E! Entertainment. It will also ...
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RDFI racks up international sales
RDF International has secured a series of sales in Africa, Asia and New Zealand. RDF's US version of Wife Swaphas been taken by MNET in Africa and New Zealand's Prime Television. Prime TV has also picked up two series of RDF's Who ...
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BBC worldwide takes the grid to Europe
BBC Worldwide has made a number of European broadcast deals for terrorism drama The Grid. The miniseries, co-produced by BBC, TNT, Carnival Films and Fox Television Studios, has been sold to France 2, Norway's NRK, Finland's YLE and DR in Denmark along with SVT in Sweden, ...
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Format focus: Sensing Murder
Paranormal powers are enlisted to solve murder cases in this Norwegian fright-format.
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Post industry backs UK talent
The UK post industry is investing£100,000 to fill a domestic talent gap caused by the booming VFX market.
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Subtitling industry hit by slow adoption of Ofcom rules
Subtitling and voiceover services provider Independent Media Support Group (IMS) is being forced to look to mainland Europe for work after UK broadcasters delayed signing up to Ofcom's new subtitling rules.
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Platform puts£200,000 into online upgrade
Platform Post Production has spent£200,000 on increasing and upgrading its online capabilities.
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Hive hires CG head
VTR's CGI arm The Hive has appointed Glenn Griffiths as its new head of CG. Griffiths joins from Baraka Post Production and will take charge of ongoing projects, recruitment and the sales operations at The Hive. VTR managing director Kate Sturgess said Griffiths is 'ideally placed to fill this role'. ...
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Dinnin for Facility
Dean Street post-production house The Facility has brought in designer Alex Dinnin. Dinnin, who joins from Octagon CSI, had previously worked at Tele-Cine and XTV. Previous broadcast credits include work for football world governing body Fifa, the FA Cup final 2004 and Nickelodeon UK. Business development consultant ...
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NTL brings on OneTV
NTL Broadcast has signed up shopping channel OneTV to a five-year transmission contract. NTL will supply fibre linkage from the channel's Colchester studio with uplinking and transmission space on Eurobird. NTL Broadcast is also supplying playout until the channel's own studios are operational. OneTV launched on 17 January.