All Nations and Regions articles – Page 111

  • Stuart Cosgrove
    News

    Cosgrove rebuts TV 'failure' claims

    2009-12-11T10:07:00Z

    Claims that Channel 4 “failed to deliver” for the TV industry in Scotland have been rebutted by the channel’s head of nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove.

  • Stuart Cosgrove
    News

    MSPs to discuss Scottish broadcasting

    2009-12-09T12:15:00Z

    Channel 4’s head of the nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove is to appear before Holyrood’s Culture Committee to discuss the state of broadcasting in Scotland.

  • UTV Live
    News

    UTV joins race for Welsh news pilot

    2009-12-09T10:14:00Z

    Northern Ireland ITV franchisee UTV has joined forces with Welsh News publisher NWN media to make a bid for running the independently funded news consortium scheme pilot project for Wales.

  • Michael Grade
    News

    Grade: ITV could drop regional news

    2009-12-08T16:05:00Z

    ITV’s outgoing executive chairman Michael Grade has warned that regional news could be dropped completely from the broadcaster’s schedule if a Conservative government overturned Ofcom’s regional news pilot scheme.

  • ITV Studios Leeds
    News

    ITV Leeds to get £5m revamp

    2009-12-03T14:02:00Z

    ITV’s Kirkstall Road studios in Leeds are set for a £5.2m revamp that will move Emmerdale’s production facilities into the mothballed site and introduce high definition facilities.

  • ITV
    News

    News presenter drops tribunal proceedings against ITV

    2009-12-03T11:52:00Z

    West Country news presenter Jemma Woodman has dropped tribunal proceedings against ITV after accusing her former employers of “hanging her out to dry”.

  • News

    Job fears for regional ITV news staff

    2009-11-27T12:15:00Z

    The ITV regional journalists who work in areas that will get pilot regional news consortium schemes next year have had no guarantees that their jobs will be safe.

  • Ben Bradshaw
    News

    Tyne Tees and Border to get regional news pilot

    2009-11-26T14:33:00Z

    The England regional news consortium will be based in the North East regions of Tyne Tees and Border, the government has confirmed.

  • Lisa Aziz
    News

    Aziz files £5m lawsuit against ITV

    2009-11-23T11:56:00Z

    A local newsreader is suing ITV for £5m on the grounds of race, sex and age discrimination.

  • Alex Connock
    News

    Three join forces for ITV news north-east bid

    2009-11-19T14:34:00Z

    Indie Ten Alps has joined forces with newspaper group Trinity Mirror and the Press Association in a bid to have the North East of England chosen as the third regional TV news pilot scheme area.

  • Alex Connock
    News

    Ten Alps to lobby for NI news pilot

    2009-11-18T12:18:00Z

    Ten Alps is lobbying Northern Ireland MPs to pressure the Government to fund a low-cost online news pilot after the nation was frozen out of plans to support regional news for the ITV network.

  • ITV
    News

    ITV news pilots set for April 2010

    2009-11-16T17:52:00Z

    Independently financed regional news pilot schemes on the ITV network could begin as early as April next year.

  • Armando Ianucci
    News

    Ianucci wins Bafta Scotland awards

    2009-11-09T17:21:00Z

    Armando Ianucci and Peter Capaldi picked up a hat trick of awards at the Bafta Scotland Awards for political satire In the Loop, on a night that also saw prizes awarded to BBC drama New Town and actor Robert Carlyle.

  • Jason Horton
    News

    Jason Horton to head BBC South

    2009-11-04T09:46:00Z

    The BBC has hired Jason Horton as its new head of BBC South, replacing Mike Hapgood who retires at the end of the year.

  • Ann Widdecombe
    News

    Tinopolis poised to buy Pioneer

    2009-10-29T08:00:00Z

    Welsh production giant Tinopolis Group is on the brink of buying Pioneer Productions - its first acquisition since going private in summer 2008.

  • BBC Alba
    News

    BBC's Gaelic channel under review

    2009-10-26T12:31:00Z

    The BBC Trust is to consider whether Gaelic TV channel BBC Alba should get a Freeview slot, as part of a review of the service launched today.

  • Blue Peter
    News

    BBC could drop WoCC for Salford kids move

    2009-10-22T08:00:00Z

    The BBC is looking at temporarily reducing or even scrapping the in-house guarantee for children’s content when it moves key departments to Salford.

  • Mountbatten_DeathofaRoyal.jpg
    Behind The Scenes

    Northern Ireland: the window of opportunity

    2009-10-22T07:44:00Z

    After years in the commissioning cold, the promise of more network series has rallied the Northern Irish indie community. But is there a pot of gold waiting?

  • Amazon
    News

    Boomerang seals £2.4m deal with Indus

    2009-10-20T09:51:00Z

    Listed indie Boomerang Plus has completed its acquisition of Amazon-producer Indus Films in a deal worth just under £2.4m.

  • baby_panda.jpg
    News

    Animal baby series to kick off BBC Bristol partnership

    2009-10-08T17:26:00Z

    BBC1 has unveiled plans for an “emotionally charged” natural history series about the attempts to save some of the rarest animals on earth.