All Nations and Regions articles – Page 103
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NewsVision+Media cuts 40% of staff
Screen agency Vision+Media is to make 40% of its staff redundant as it bids to hit its budget ahead of being merged into Creative England.
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NewsBBC Showcase moving to Liverpool
BBC Worldwide’s annual programme event is to leave Brighton after more than 30 years and move to Liverpool.
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NewsMediaCityUK secures extra £22m
Peel Media has secured £22m of funding from Santander Corporate Banking to help it continue to develop MediaCityUK.
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FeaturesCrunch time for S4C
As S4C grapples with seismic changes, Catherine Neilan talks to interim vice-chair Rheon Tomos about the politics of independence.
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NewsWise Buddah launches Manchester division
Radio indie Wise Buddah is launching a Manchester base and has snapped up Jo Meek the former managing director of rival Somethin Else’s north-west division.
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NewsO'Leary wades into Question Time row
Presenter Dermot O’Leary has stepped into a row about BBC1’s Question Time, dismissing plans to relocate the show to Glasgow as “a joke”.
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NewsShed creates blue-collar comedy drama for BBC1
BBC1 is continuing its push on blue-collar scripted content by commissioning a primetime comedy drama based around a decaying seaside community in the north of England.
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NewsThompson’s Salford ambition
BBC director general Mark Thompson has a personal ambition to see an entire channel move to Media CityUK in Salford.
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CommentView from the North
The view from the North is rapidly becoming the view of the South as I travel down on one of my now weekly trips to London, writes Tom Harvey.
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NewsLicence fee bid for Scottish digital channel
Plans to set up a new digital TV channel for Scotland should be funded through a “fairer redistribution” of licence fee cash, according to a group of media experts.
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NewsHunt unveils plans for new national TV channel
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has today unveiled his vision for local television, which will kick-off with the launch of a prominent and independently-run national TV channel.
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NewsBBC North to create drama fund
BBC North is looking at creating a drama fund to encourage more regional indies to come forward with pitches for the broadcaster.
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NewsJobs under threat at Screen Yorkshire
Screen Yorkshire has put all staff members under consultation as part of a review of the future of the regional agency.
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NewsSTV launches Edinburgh news service
STV has launched a pilot Edinburgh-based news service as it aims to bolster its localised current affairs content.
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NewsC4 orders regional music show
Channel 4 has commissioned a new four-part music show that will be based in different locations across the country and presented by Gavin & Stacey actor Mathew Horne.
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NewsSTV poaches News Int'l exec
STV has appointed News International exec Steven Walker to the newly created role of director, corporate development.
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NewsITV technology exec hired by MediaCity
MediaCityUK has appointed ITV’s former head of production technology John O’Shaughnessy as head of technology operations.
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NewsDyke backs local TV services
Greg Dyke will claim tonight that local TV services have a commercially viable future in at least 60 areas of the UK.
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NewsNorth East indie awarded £300,000
Newcastle-based indie Bonafide has secured a tranche of fresh investment funding that will help develop a new sitcom being co-produced with Steve Coogan and Henry Normal’s indie Baby Cow.
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NewsC4 hunts for doc talent in the North East
Channel 4 has partnered with Northern Film & Media to launch a hunt for documentary makers that will see three films produced.