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Pact creative strategies conference: Opportunity knocks
Mergers, rights and the growing need for indies to take a more business-like approach were all on the agenda at Pact's Creative Strategies Conference. Michelle Webster reports
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Enter the Dragon's Den
Indies seeking investment should be clear about what they want the money for and how they're going to pay it back. That was the message from a panel of investment specialists at the Pact Creative Strategies Conference - dubbed the 'Dragon's Den'.
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FBC still in the market to buy more indies
The company that acquired Diverse is looking to buy another one or two indies this year, FBC founder Alan Friedman ...
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Deal for dickinson
The BBC has axed the primetime version of Bargain Huntand given host David Dickinson a new role in another antiques series. Bargain Huntwas given a peaktime slot in 2002 but has failed to meet audience expectations. The daytime edition will remain, hosted ...
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Robinson new remit
ITV News political editor Nick Robinson has been given an expanded role, working across regional news programmes in England and Wales, as well as the national offering. ITV said the move is designed to create a more integrated approach to political coverage.
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Winslet to judge
TCM has signed up Kate Winslet to judge its annual British short film contest, TCM Classic Shorts. Winslet joins fellow actors David Morrissey and Helen Mirren on the 16-strong judging panel for this year's event, which launches at next week's Cannes Film Festival. The winner, who receives£10,000 in prize money, ...
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Virgin rock on Sky
Virgin Radio Classic Rock has extended its footprint onto Sky Digital in a bid to attract more listeners. The SMG-owned station launched last year to digital radio listeners in London and on the internet. It reported 165,000 listeners in the last set of radio audience figures. Virgin Radio Classic Rock ...
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Discovery turns fiction into fact
The Discovery Channel's new channel director, Jill Offman, has made her first batch of commissions, including a new...
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BBC fills daytime commissioning role
The BBC has appointed Karen Brown, a former editor of ITV1's This Morning, to oversee daytime commissions from outside London.
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Sky to air football awards
Sky One has picked up the UK rights to a new awards ceremony that is being billed as football's answer to the Oscar...
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Welsh indies benefit from C4 support
Channel 4 and the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) are ploughing£225,000 into Cardiff indies Green Bay and Boomerang...
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Death toll inquiry
BBC head of global news Richard Sambrook is to head an inquiry into the rising death toll among journalists after n...
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Return of Dixon
Classic police drama Dixon of Dock Greenis to be revived for a new series on BBC Radio 4. Following a 30-year absence, a series of six plays, based on original scripts from the long-running television show, will air in mid-June.
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Abbott wins award
Shamelesswriter Paul Abbott has gained another award for his thriller State of Play. The programme was picked up by BBC America and won best television feature in the Edgar Allan Poe Awards in the US this week. It is the latest in a series of victories ...
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BBC's web mistake
THE BBC has been forced to change its Radio1 web page after a complaint about a song named Gyppo kids ate my hamster. The track was recorded as part of a Radio1 session by Cardiff band The Martini Henry Rifles, but attracted complaints from a Romani support group. The British ...
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IWC wins US deal with swap show
IWC Media has scored its first US commission with a lifeswap format for The WB, which aims to teach rich kids the v...
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Murdoch admits disappointment over Sky One
BSkyB chief executive James Murdoch has admitted that, despite a change in strategy for flagship channel Sky One, r...
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C4 lures BBC executive for More4 service
Channel 4 has poached a BBC executive to join the commissioning team for its upcoming free-to-air digital service More4.
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BBC Scotland staff hit out at controller
BBC Scotland controller Ken McQuarrie is facing calls to resign after over 10% of BBC workers in the region signed a vote of no confidence against him.
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Lone Dalek exterminates ITV1
The bank holiday sunshine burnt some nasty holes in BBC1 and ITV1's audience shares last weekend.