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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - ITV cleans up with British Soap Awards
Highlights of the first British Soap Awards pulled in a dazzling 9.4 million viewers for ITV last Wednesday (19 May), writes Claire Handley.Airing between 20.00 and 21.00, the star-studded ceremony took
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TV rapped for stunting children's development
Television was this week blamed for hampering children's ability to learn to speak and understand English.Gila Falkus, a speech and language therapist working mostly with pre-school children in west London, warned
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Talk gets down to business with breakfast show
Talk Radio has stepped up the battle for breakfast-time listeners with a new 60-minute early morning business programme to be provided by business information giant Bloomberg.The 60-minute show, Bloomberg on the
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The BBC is understood to have secured the exclusive UK terrestrial rights to Titanic, the biggest ever grossing feature film, in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, writes Jason Deans. But
The BBC is understood to have secured the exclusive UK terrestrial rights to Titanic, the biggest ever grossing feature film, in a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, writes Jason Deans. But
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Kavanagh quits EC media funding agency
David Kavanagh has quit as chief executive of the organisation that administers the (75 million (£49 million) arm of the European Commission's media development funds, writes Alice Macandrew.Kavanagh resigned a fortnight
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ITV sends hopeful pilots into entertainment dogfight
ITV looks set to stage a second entertainment pilot battle this summer with four one-off programmes planned for Saturday night slots, writes Claire Handley.Last summer director of programmes David Liddiment commissioned
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NewsUTV looks at Virgin Radio
UTV, the Irish media group which owns Talksport, has revealed that it might be interested in acquisitions and that Virgin Radio could be on its shopping list.
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JACKSON DENIES DG BID
Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson has dismissed a weekend report he is being lined up as a 'parachute' candidate for the job of BBC director general. Jackson told Broadcast: 'I
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CHRYSALIS SACKS NOBLE
Chrysalis Radio-owned Heart 106.2 has dismissed presenter Kara Noble after a photo she took of a topless Sophie Rhys-Jones appeared in The Sun on Wednesday (26 May). Noble was sacked from
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YTV TO RECAST REED ROLE
Yorkshire Television (YTV) and production company Excelsior are working to recast their new ITV drama, Uncle Silas, following the death of Oliver Reed. A number of actors are understood to have
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BECTU FIGHTS UTV CUTS
Ulster Television (UTV) announced 35 redundancies across its technical, journalistic and production staff this week. Broadcasting union Bectu said it would fight any compulsory redundancies. Assistant general secretary Gerry Morrissey said:
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20 CHASE LONDON LICENCE
Twenty groups are bidding to run the independent local radio licence in north and north-west London. They include Fan FM, a 24-hour sports and music channel backed by former News Direct
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Myers quits Border to set up rival outfit
Border Radio Holdings (BRH) group managing director John Myers has quit unexpectedly to set up a rival radio business.Myers told Broadcast he already has backing for the new company and plans
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ITN to cover eclipse for DNE
ITN has landed a major new commission from Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) in what is expected to herald a more permanent relationship between the two outfits, writes Alice Macandrew.ITN has made
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R4 overhauls scheduling operation
BBC Radio 4 controller James Boyle has asked producers to 'eliminate any non-essential business' as the station begins an overhaul of its scheduling operation over the next two months, writes John
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C4 tells Horse Tales over summer
Channel 4 has snapped up the first series of Transatlantic Films' Horse Tales to air in the daytime schedule this summer, writes Alice Macandrew.The 10 x 30-minute series, which examines the
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Carlton kids' drama Ortyfou to mix live action and animation
Carlton has gone into production on a new children's drama series that combines live action and animation, writes Ashley Davies.Welcome to Ortyfou is written and directed by Jean Buchanan and Roger
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021 in Omni link-up
OB company 021 has formed a long-term business alliance with Omni TV, part of the Barcud Derwen group.
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NHU PICKS HENEBERRY AS COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
The BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) has recruited a new commercial director. Ailish Heneberry's main responsibility will be to develop the commercial potential of the unit, working directly to NHU head
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BARONESS YOUNG TO GIVE RADIO FESTIVAL LECTURE
BBC vice-chairman Baroness Young (right) is to give a keynote address at this year's Radio Festival. She will deliver The Times Radio Lecture on the opening day of the festival, which