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More help for blind
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are to join Five in providing audio description on services broadcast by satellite. This will make audio description available to several million additional households, in addition to those households with suitable digital terrestrial receivers. Ofcom had proposed in a draft code - to be ...
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G-Pixx flies high
In its first month of operation TV helicopter G-Pixx has answered BBC news calls for the Heathrow heist, the Momart warehouse fire and Abu Hamza's transfer to Belmarsh, as well as a number of sports-related commissions. Owned by former TV and radio presenter Mike Smith, G-Pixx aims to become ...
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VTR role for fish
Richard Fish has joined VTR plc's The Machine Room from Ascent Media to head business development for its restoration, film mastering, high-definition and duplication businesses. Fish spent two years at Ascent Media securing archive, telecine, HD and feature film work across the group and was previously at BBC Worldwide. The ...
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Mackenzie rails at Rajar scaremongering
The Wireless Group (TWG) chairman Kelvin MacKenzie has attacked radio audience board Rajar for 'scaremongering' after managing director Sally de la Bedoyere told Broadcast last week introducing electronic measurement would cost up to£25m a year. MacKenzie, who is currently involved in a legal battle with Rajar over the issue, claimed ...
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GMTV gives disney 90 days to decide
GMTV will next week send out a sale prospectus to shareholders Disney, SMG and ITV outlining SMG's proposal to sell its 25% stake to ITV for£31m. The move effectively gives Disney 90 days to decide whether it wants to raise its stake by exercising a right to buy a quarter ...
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BSkyB hires Dixons' finance director
BSkyB has appointed Dixons finance director Jeremy Darroch as its chief financial officer, replacing Martin Stewart who leaves the company in August. Stewart, seen as a close ally of former Sky chief executive Tony Ball, resigned in February following the appointment of James Murdoch as chief executive last November. Darroch ...
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BBC launches regional indie initiatives
The BBC is boosting its commitment to English regional indies with several initiatives, including a£100,000 fund to help increase entertainment programming. Funding of between£20,000 and£40,000 has been made available for projects alongside mentoring from a dedicated senior executive as well as business support. BBC independents executive Elaine Bedell has also ...
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Unions and BBC Worldwide reach pay deal
Unions have settled their pay dispute with BBC Worldwide following an improved offer from the company. Staff will now receive a 2.8% rise - up from 2.6% - plus improved bonuses from 1 July after Bectu and the National Union of Journalists agreed to drop a strike ballot. The unions ...
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NewsThompson stamps authority on BBC
New BBC director general Mark Thompson moved swiftly to establish a new regime this week, tearing up Greg Dyke's management structure and launching a series of internal reviews.
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NewsITV pumps extra£36m into digital brands
ITV is pumping an extra£36m into its digital channel strategy in a bid to triple its income from multichannel broadcasting.
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NewsC4 experiment tests steroids on athletes
Athletes are to be injected with anabolic steroids for a Channel 4 programme that will attempt to measure the impact of performance-enhancing drugs.
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All3Media eyes Shameless indie
All3Media, the media group run by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, is understood to be eyeing Company Pictures, the producer of Channel 4's Shameless , as its next acquisition target.
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BBC lays out news academy plan
BBC star reporters such as Andrew Marr and John Simpson are to help train fledgling news recruits as part of plans for a multimillion pound BBC journalism college.
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Pact challenges budget squeeze
Producers' alliance Pact is complaining to Ofcom that the BBC and Channel 4 are trying to cut indie production budgets to claw back money lost as a result of rights changes.
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Curwen quits Folio to set up own indie
Folio head of programmes Nick Curwin has quit to set up a factual indie and has already secured a development retainer from Channel 4 and a number of commissions.
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ITV picks off-peak chief
ITV has poached the BBC's daytime scheduling chief, Stephen Price, to join its newly created off-peak unit.
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Popstars back in fresh guise
Popstars - the ITV show which launched Hear'say and Girls Aloud - is to return for a third series, this time creating boy-girl duets.
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BBC joins Russia for Space Race
The BBC is to make its first co-production with a Russian broadcaster with a£3m landmark docu-drama series that aims to give the definitive story of the Cold War race to be the first in space.
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NewsBBC to set up journalism college
The BBC is to set up its own multi-million pound journalism college as a consequence of the Hutton inquiry, it confirmed this morning (Wednesday).
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NewsThompson overhauls BBC top tier
New BBC director general Mark Thompson yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled his blueprint for the future of the corporation, with a radical overhaul of the way it is structured and a warning that it must not be so 'arrogant'.