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NewsSky 1 to bolster sports with panel show duo
Sky 1 is to kick off a sports entertainment drive with two panelshow pilots, a search-for-a-star format featuring José Mourinho and a second series with Wayne Rooney.
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NewsBroadband push could tap licence fee, says Carter
The digital surplus from the BBC licence fee should be the main source for funding universal broadband, next week’s Digital Britain report will confirm.
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RatingsITV has worst ever ratings in wake of BGT bonanza
ITV1’s Britain’s Got Talent ratings honeymoon came to an abrupt end last week as the channel equalled its worst ever performance.
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NewsIMG hunts for further job cuts at Tiger Aspect
IMG Media is planning to make a fresh round of redundancies at Tiger Aspect Productions and its natural history subsidiary, Tigress Productions.
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NewsAutumnwatch extended to cash in on web appeal
Autumnwatch will no longer be stripped over two weeks as BBC2 moves to cash in on the series’ multiplatform credentials.
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NewsSky News to launch in HD
Sky News will launch a high definition channel in Spring next year to run alongside it’s current 24-hour news channel – making it the first broadcaster to air news in both formats.
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RatingsITV1 scores with England victory
England’s 6-0 demolition of Andorra in a World Cup qualifier helped ITV1 dominate viewing last night as the coverage peaked with an impressive 9.6m viewers (41.7% share), the most watched sporting event so far this year.
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NewsCue dot for 021 Television
Outside broadcaster 021 Television has installed a HD cue dot generator, specially engineered by Microvideo, to cope with ITV Sport’s move to cover UEFA Champions League, FA Cup and England Internationals in HD. ITV uses a cue dot to signal to its transmission centres when to take commercial breaks.
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NewsGinger trains Amazon trekker
Ginger Productions has trained adventurer Ed Stafford to self-shoot with a HVR A1E handycam for an epic trek along the river Amazon.
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NewsOLED comes to market
The technology set to eventually supercede plasma and LCD screens in the home and for professional monitoring is being advanced by a number of manufacturers.
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NewsSurvey: File transfer slow to take off
Nearly two thirds of broadcasters feel that speeding up production is a key technology priority, yet half of them still ship media around the world which is both time-consuming and costly, a survey from file transfer management company Aspera has revealed.
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NewsLipSync appoints business exec
Wardour Street film and TV facility LipSync Post has appointed Daniel Pagan as business development executive.
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NewsLiving primed for HD roll-out
Delivering Digital Britain conference: Virgin Media will roll out an HD version of Living this year as part of a cross-platform strategy to boost the channel’s brand.
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NewsDisney Bites back
Disney Channel UK has recommissioned Prism Entertainment to make a second series of its Life Bites short-form series.
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NewsCelia Taylor lands Sky factual job
Celia Taylor, who quit as director of programmes at Virgin Media TV last year, has resurfaced as commissioning editor of factual and features for Sky 1, 2 and 3
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NewsCarter to quit government
Communications minister Stephen Carter is to step down to rejoin the private sector after he publishes his Digital Britain report, increasing speculation that he is putting himself in the running for the top job at ITV.
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RatingsBig Brother not so big now
Channel 4’s reality show looks to be showing signs of age as the tenth series has averaged 2.7m (14.1%) over its first week, down a million on last year.
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Talkback celebrate Monte Carlo success
Talkback Thames swept the board at last night’s 49th Monte Carlo Television Festival – taking home four of the top awards for its television film, The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall.
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NewsBBCW in High Court over value of 2Entertain
BBC Worldwide is to appear in the High Court today with the administrator of Woolworths, to settle a dispute over the value of their join venture 2Entertain.
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NewsOFT: Commission needs to relax ITV's CRR
The Office of Fair Trading has written to the Competition Commission, urging them to make drastic changes to remedy ITV’s Contract Rights Renewal scheme.