All Multiplatform articles – Page 234
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NewsNick channels back on Telewest
Nickelodeon has ended its stand-off with cable provider Telewest after agreeing new terms for its four channels.
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NewsNew chief exec for MTV Europe
MTV Networks Europe has promoted deputy chief executive and executive vice president Simon Guild to the position of chief executive.
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NewsEnteraction pays£3m for Red Fig
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£3m.
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NewsMTV launches Advance Warning Europe
MTV is to roll its US new music show format Advance Warninginto Europe.
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NewsPlayboy TV fined£25,000
Ofcom has slapped a£25,000 fine on softcore sex channel Playboy TV for broadcasting graphic sex.
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Sky signs performer for Jackson trial
Sky has signed up a professional Michael Jackson impersonator to play the troubled singer in its daily reconstructions of the pop star's trial. Actor Edward Moss has been performing as Michael Jackson since 1996. The Michael Jackson Trial, a co-production with E! Entertainment, will air as ...
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Elstein to be Digital Classics chairman
Former Five chief executive David Elstein has been named chairman of arts programming distributor Digital Classics. Digital Classics owns a library of concert footage by artists including Miles Davis, and is valued at£9m.
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Top Up TV wins 160,000 subs
Top Up TV, the 10-channel pay-TV service for Freeview viewers, has attracted around 160,000 customers since its launch last April.
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NewsE4 gets new chief and£20m boost
Channel 4 is set to pump an extra£20m into its digital entertainment service E4 and has appointed Julian Bellamy to run it.
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NewsMen and Motors lined up for ITV4
ITV is looking at launching lads channel Men and Motors on Freeview and eventually turning it into ITV4.
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UKTV builds commissions
UKTV has poached BBC senior commissioning executive for documentaries and contemporary factual Jo Clinton Davis to take on a new chief commissioning role across all its channels.
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NewsGovernment bans porn channel
The Government is to restrict access to pornography channel Extasi TV over concerns that the adult service was screening 'frequent episodes of sexual violence'.
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NewsUniversal appoints interim Sci-Fi chief
Universal Studios has parachuted in one of its top executives to run the UK Sci-Fi channel until a new president has been appointed.
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NewsC4's Hollyoaks gets mobile
Channel 4 is to offer viewers exclusive storylines from teen soap Hollyoaksvia their mobile phones.
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NewsE4 chief joins Celador
Murray Boland, the head of Channel 4's youth offshoot E4, has quit to join Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?producer Celador Productions.
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NewsDesmond adult service in Red Hot water
Freeview lawyers have issued a warning to adult service Red Hot over the channel's use of the Freeview trademark.
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NewsSit-Up bids for Freeview movie channel
TV shopping broadcaster Sit-up TV has put in a bid to launch a movie channel in Crown Castle's vacant Freeview slot.
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The Rising Son
James Murdoch has had a tough time since taking over the chief executive job at Sky - but figures he announced this week have silenced some of his critics - and suggest his strategy for growth is the right one. Here is an extract from an interview with an analyst ...
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George takes Flextech post
Flextech Television has hired Jason George, former chief executive of Endemol's new media arm Victoria Real, as controller of interactive programming, writesSusan Thompson.
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Homechoice replay adds BBC channels
Broadband entertainment provider Video Networks has added four more BBC channels to its on-demand replay service. Subscribers to the HomeChoice platform can now access popular programming from BBC3, BBC4, CBeebies and CBBC for up to seven days after transmission, in addition to programmes from BBC1, BBC2, Channel 4 and Chelsea ...