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NewsGfk hits out at Rajar
Gfk Media, the research company employed by Kelvin MacKenzie to measure radio audiences, has hit back at Rajar after being dropped from the race to win a lucrative new contract.
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NewsExpress Group axes BBC and ITV digital listings
The Daily Express and Daily Star have axed listings for channels including BBC3 and ITV2 after broadcasters refused to pay thousands of pounds demanded by the newspaper group for the service.
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NewsBBC creates£9m comedy fund
The BBC has ring-fenced£9m to commission comedy programmes outside London and is restructuring its entertainment and comedy commissioning.
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NewsFive's football scores with 3.3m
Five's decision to devote virtually all of its peaktime schedule to live football coverage of the Uefa tournament paid dividends with a peak audience of 3.3 million (15%) at 9.25pm and an overall peaktime share of 9.2%.
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NewsGranada poaches BB producer
Granada has poached the Endemol series editor of Celebrity Big BrotherDavid Williams to join its entertainment division.
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NewsBirt and Jowell clash on BBC funding
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell and former BBC director general John Birt are understood to have clashed over the idea that the licence fee should be shared out among broadcasters.
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NewsAce FM snares Kidderminster licence
Ofcom has awarded a new FM licence in Kidderminster to the Midlands News Association-owned Ace FM.
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NewsChapman buys Little Robots
Former ITV children's controller Vanessa Chapman has bought the rights to CBBC pre-school animation Little Robots.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC1 controller
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Should Kevin Lygo be the next controller of BBC1?
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NewsThe Apprentice picks up 2.1m
BBC2's much-hyped reality show for business-types The Apprenticegot off to a limp start yesterday with a peak audience of just 2.1 million (8.8%) at 9.45pm.
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Enteraction buys into a 3G future
Enteraction TV, the company that runs Thomas Cook TV and the new London TV channel, -has bought interactive specialist Red Fig in a deal worth an estimated£3m.
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BBC appoints news chief to lead Broadcast sale
The BBC has appointed BBC news chief operating officer Peter Phillips to oversee the summer sale of BBC Broadcast, squashing trade union Bectu's hopes of keeping Broadcast's 1,000 staff at the corporation.
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OB specialist Telegenic in buyout deal
Terry James have bought out a controlling share of outside broadcast company Telegenic as the company prepares for HD expansion.
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Producer joins Blue
Post-production house Blue has appointed producer Kevin Docherty from fellow broadcast facility Evolutions. Docherty's new role will be to focus on Blue's on-air market. His recent projects including 18th Street Gang(Ideal World), Room for Improvementsand Brand New You(RDF Media), and various MTV ...
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Sci-fi Subtitling
Subtitling and voiceover supplier Independent Media Support Group (IMS) has won a three-year contract with the Sci-fi Channel to supply subtitling, signing and audio description on its transmissions until January 2008. The Sci-fi Channel is one of 70 UK channels that have to radically increase their on-screen sub-titling, signing and ...
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Reuters on web
News agency Reuters has launched its first interactive TV channel for the UK market, delivering news stories over the internet into the home. The service has already been launched in the US and will use the latest video news footage sourced from Reuters' 197 worldwide bureaux. Chris Ahearn, president of ...
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London Studios
The London Studios has employed post-producer Rick Horne from Soho facility Resolution. The move is part of a major investment in post-production facilities, according to London Studios, and will take effect from the end of the month. London Studios director of post Jacqui Rutherford said Horne was part of a ...
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Vislink buys link
Communications group Vislink plc has bought wireless camera developer Link Research. The board's recommendation was approved by shareholders at an extraordinary general meeting held last week. The deal secures for Vislink the intellectual property rights to Link Research's encoding tech-nology. Link Research managing director Len Mann will ...
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Evolutions posts Sugar series
Evolutions Television is completing full post-production on Talkback's business reality series, The Apprentice. Businessman Alan Sugar takes the Donald Trump role in this UK version of the hit US show of the same name. Up to six crews were used at any one time during six ...
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Adams Trainor titles Arctic job
Adams Trainor has designed the branding and titles for CBBC's Serious Arcticfollowing award-winning expeditions to the jungle and desert. The series takes eight young teens into the Arctic to take part in a global warming research project. Designers Paul Trainor and Miles Christensen composited live action ...