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Commissioner's Q& A: Paul Welling
The vice-president and channel director, Discovery Home & Leisure and Discovery Travel & Living wants pitches for h...
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C4 assigns more money to More4
Channel 4 has increased the annual programming budget for its new free-to-air digital service More4 from£30m to£3...
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Hit at centre of bidding war
Hit Entertainment is set to find itself at the centre of a£500m bidding war as Canadian media group Lions Gate Entertainment prepares to make a takeover approach.
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YooMedia in stategic deal for ViaVision
Yoomedia, the interactive group headed by former BBC executive David Docherty has paid around£1.3m for ViaVision, the owner of Game-In TV, in a bid to expand its presence in the gaming industry.
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US channel to co-pro second Nighty Night
Oxygen, the US cable women's channel founded by chat show queen Oprah Winfrey, has stepped in to co-produce the second series of award-winning BBC comedy Nighty Night.
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Amir Khan brings boxing back to ITV
ITV is to broadcast boxing for the first time in over 10 years, after it secured the rights to broadcast the rematch between Amir Khan and the man who beat him for the Olympic gold medal in Athens, Mario Kindelan. The bout, which takes place at the Reebok Stadium in ...
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Emap in running to buy up all of SRH
Emap, the owner of the Kiss and Magic radio networks, has admitted it is interested in acquiring all of Scottish Radio Holdings but has yet to make a formal approach. Over a year since Emap, publisher of Broadcast, bought 27.8% of SRH, Scotland's biggest commercial radio ...
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Broadcasters to pay less for Ofcom
Ofcom has slashed its annual fees to broadcasters by up to 29% after coming in under budget last year. The regulator said its 2005/6 budget would be around£133m - 5% lower than the£140m it was allocated for the year to 31 March 2005. Ofcom will also receive a£5m research grant ...
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At It hires Blaker as senior staff rejig
Indie At It Productions has appointed Ashley Blaker as senior development producer for comedy and entertainment. Blaker was recently head of development for So Television. Meanwhile, At It has rejigged its senior staff, appointing head of development Sheldon Lazarus to a new role of head of factual and specials. Paul ...
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Temporary head found for BBC sport
BBC Sport's head of programmes and planning Pat Younge is being temporarily replaced by Grandstand and Sports Personality of the Yeareditor Philip Bernie. Younge is joining Discovery Communications in the US to run its Travel Channel and has already left the corporation. Bernie has stepped into ...
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Zig Zag to open New York office
ZIG ZAG Productions, the London-based independent behind Fashanu's Football Challenge, is to open two new offices in New York and Brighton.
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Radio 1 'saviour' Moyles out in cold at Sonys
Loudmouth DJ Chris Moyles has been snubbed by judges of the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards, despite pulling in over a million extra listeners to the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show.
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Dick and Dom's Ask the Family fails to bag viewers
Dick and Dom, the BBC's critically acclaimed children's presenters, suffered a setback in their bid to follow rivals Ant and Dec into peaktime, after their quiz show Ask the Familywas largely ignored.
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ITV puts up £500,000 for new pilots
ITV is launching a£500,000 annual award scheme to help regional independents make pilots for off-peak network slot...
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BBC regional film
Brighton-based indie Pier Productions has been given£100,000 from the corporation's You Don't Have to Live in London fund to make a 60-minute documentary about the history of the Scout movement for BBC2. The indie is the first to benefit from the scheme, launched by entertainment commissioner Jane Lush to promote ...
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LBC hires Bob Friend
Sky News veteran Bob Friend has been signed up to present on LBC 1152 in the run-up to the general election. Friend will co-present The Evening Reporton the Chrysalis-owned rolling news station, with regular host Katy Breathwick, from 25 April. He will continue to present the ...
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Apology for Dr Who
The BBC has been forced to apologise to Doctor Whostar Christopher Eccleston for issuing a statement in his name, falsely claiming he had quit the show because he did not want to be typecast. The corporation knew in January that Eccleston would not be returning for ...
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C4 show for Napster
Music download service Napster is making its TV debut with a series titled Napster Live for Channel 4 night-time strand 4 Music. Produced by indie Blaze TV, each episode will feature a performance by a featured artist, an interview, biography and an interactive competition spot. The series starts on Saturday ...
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S4C seeks indie bids
Welsh channel S4C is putting£500,000 of production work out to tender to the indie sector. After winning the rights to broadcast the Lions v Argentina rugby international live, the broadcaster is inviting tenders for production of the match. It is also inviting bids to film the 2005 and 2006 Gwyl ...
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C4 poaches Ford to head acquisitions
Jeff Ford, Five's managing editor and director of acquisitions, has been poached by Channel 4 to replace controller...