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Schoonmaker bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker and Macquarie Bank have entered a second application for a UK local FM radio licence - this time for Ipswich. Last month Schoonmaker and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, entered a bid for the Swansea licence under the name Radio UK Holdings. He ...
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Extreme sells poker
Extreme Entertainment has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with The Poker Channel. Extreme will look to sell both standalone programming and branded blocks of the channel internationally in all territories except the UK. The Poker Channel, which launched in March this year, has produced 150 hours of programming to ...
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Arqiva TX contracts
Arqiva has won four new 12-year FM transmission contracts for stations awarded new licences by Ofcom. Under the new contracts, Arqiva will provide transmission services for two new The Local Radio Company stations, The Bee in Blackburn and Durham FM in Durham. It will also serve Midlands News Association-owned station ...
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Corrie's Wood may cross to Mersey
Coronation Streetproducer Tony Wood is in talks to join Mersey TV as creative director. Wood has already announced that he will leave the soap at the end of the year. Mersey TV, producer of Hollyoaks, is run by Wood's former Coronation Streetboss ...
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ITV news veterans back for 50th
ITV News alumnae, including Selina Scott and Gordon Honeycombe, will return to present the evening bulletin for one night only, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. Mark Austin will present the 6.30pm bulletin with Scott, Anna Ford and Julia Sommerville, while Mary Nightingale will team up with Martyn Lewis ...
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Sky offers£5,000 prize for best indie doc
Sky One is putting£5,000 up for grabs for the best authored documentary idea to come from an indie. Entries are being accepted until 26 September and the five finalists will be announced at the Sheffield Documentary Festival on Friday 14 October. Indies will then pitch to a panel of Sky ...
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RDF media recruits investment specialist
RDF Media has hired private equity expert Jonny Slow to help it identify new acquisition and investment opportunities. He joins as director of corporate development from Sand Aire Private Equity - a London-based private equity firm that specialises in investing in small to medium-sized firms.
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'Inappropriate' Humphrys taken to task
The BBC has reprimanded veteran BBC presenter John Humphrys after a video leaked to The Timesshowed him deriding senior Labour cabinet members. His comments prompted a BBC investigation, and in a statement director general Mark Thompson said Humphrys' turn of phrase was 'inappropriate'.
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Duo launch TV genius search engine
Bob Eggington, the launch director of BBC News Online, and Tom Weiss, former vice-president of T-Mobile Europe, have set up a search engine called TV Genius dedicated to finding UK TV shows. The service allows users to search listings for all UK TV channels, films, sports, comedy, drama and documentaries. ...
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NewsEngland's loss is BBC1's gain
England may have failed against Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifier but the match was an unqualified success for BBC1 with a peak audience of 10.4 million (44%) at 9.35pm.
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NewsPEER POLL: John Humphrys
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Did John Humphrys' comments overstep the mark?
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NewsTOTP heads to Latin America
Presenter Fearne Cotton is set to become a household name in Latin America, after Top of the Pops was sold to one of the continent's leading channels.
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NewsPratchett drama for CBBC
Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman has commissioned her first drama for the department - an adaptation of a Terry Pratchett novel.
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NewsClub Asia signs to Napster
London-based Asian radio station Club Asia has signed up with online music download service Napster to promote Asian music downloads and streams.
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NewsC4's cricket set for another blockbuster
The final test in The Ashes series looks set to be another blockbuster in the ratings with Channel 4's coverage of the first day's play peaking at the end with 4.8 million (31.1%).
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NewsHumphrys hits back at 'grotesque' journalism
BBC Radio 4 Today presenter John Humphrys has hit back at a 'grotesque piece of mischievous journalism', which led to him being wrapped over the knuckles by BBC director general Mark Thompson.
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NewsCinven joins Flextech fray
Private equity firm Cinven has emerged as a bidder for Telewest content arm Flextech.
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NewsBarb to measure PVR homes
TV ratings service Barb is to include audience figures from PVRs, the hard disk video recorders that are slowly replacing VCRs.
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NewsPilsworth raises£500,000
Motive Television, the new indie launched by former Chrysalis TV chief executive Mick Pilsworth, is raising a further£500,000 through a share issue.
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NewsBBC drama to probe IVF treatment
Former EastEndersstar Michelle Collins and Waking The Deadactor Trevor Eve are set to star in a new BBC1 drama about the world of fertility treatment.