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  • Chris Bryant
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    Chris Bryant: the BBC is under siege

    2015-07-15T10:26:00Z

    Shadow culture secretary Chris Bryant has claimed the BBC will be reduced to a “national irrelevance” by 2027 if the government continues its “bully crusade” against the broadcaster during charter renewal.

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    Bullying cases fall at the BBC

    2015-07-15T09:12:00Z

    Around 13 staff were found guilty of bullying at the BBC in the year to end of March 2015, as the number of bullying and sexual harassment cases at the corporation fell 37%.

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    Top stars urge prime minister to protect the BBC

    2015-07-15T08:21:00Z

    A host of top stars including Brian Cox, Daniel Craig and Dame Judi Dench, have written to the prime minister urging him to protect the “precious institution” that is the BBC.

  • Tony Hall
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    Hall: BBC’s future must not be dictated by commercial interests

    2015-07-14T13:58:00Z

    Tony Hall has argued that the future of the BBC should not be decided by “narrow commercial interests” but by the British public.

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    BBC network spend in Scotland tumbles

    2015-07-14T13:29:00Z

    Political pressure on the BBC from Scotland could be ramped up after the corporation spent less in the country in 2014 on network TV and appreciation fell for BBC Radio Scotland.

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    Worldwide pledges to return £1bn to BBC

    2015-07-14T13:25:00Z

    BBC Worldwide plans to return around £1bn to the corporation cumulatively over the next five years, despite a dip in profits following the sale of 49.9% of the business to AMC Networks.

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    ITV US president steps down

    2015-07-14T13:14:00Z

    ITV Studios America president Orly Adelson has stepped down, prompting a restructure at the US business.

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    C4 orders health slate

    2015-07-14T13:14:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a raft of health-based feature shows from Twofour, Fresh One and Broadbean Media.

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    BBC TV channels suffer further falls in reach and appreciation

    2015-07-14T12:10:00Z

    Audience reach and appreciation scores for all the BBC’s major television channels has decreased for the second year, despite content spend growing at all but BBC4, CBBC and CBeebies.

  • The Custard Factory
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    Read resurfaces at Birmingham's Custard Factory

    2015-07-14T11:01:00Z

    Former Wimbledon Studios managing director Piers Read has been appointed managing director at Birmingham’s The Custard Factory.

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    BBC back office spend rockets £100m

    2015-07-14T11:00:00Z

    BBC back office support costs have rocketed by almost £100m at a time when the corporation has warned that services could be at risk from further funding cuts.

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    Lifetime revives Britain’s Next Top Model

    2015-07-14T10:45:00Z

    Lifetime has revived Britain’s Next Top Model two years after the format was axed by Sky Living.

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    Quantum announces Cisco IVT certification

    2015-07-14T10:23:00Z

    Quantum Corporation has announced the certification of Cisco IVT (Interoperability Verification Testing) compatibility for three of its product suites.

  • Michael Colyer
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    Colyer scoops RTS Young Technologist Award

    2015-07-14T10:16:00Z

    Formula One Management special cameras engineer Michael Colyer has been given the Royal Television Society’s (RTS) annual Young Technologist Award.

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    VocalBoothToGo to open UK office

    2015-07-14T10:08:00Z

    US-based company VocalBoothToGo is launching a UK subsidiary to supply its mobile sound-proofing and acoustic treatment systems to European customers.

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    Skype TX software gets upgrade

    2015-07-14T10:01:00Z

    Skype has announced an update to its Skype TX controller software which allows broadcasters and media companies to manage multiple Skype TX units.

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    Royalty-free riffs from AKM Music

    2015-07-14T09:47:00Z

    AKM Music has added a new title to its copyright free and royalty-free stock music library.

  • Tony Hall
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    Tony Hall to stand up for entertainment

    2015-07-14T00:01:00Z

    BBC director general Tony Hall will stress that entertainment shows should remain at the heart of the BBC and that the public’s voice should be heard during charter renewal negotiations, as he unveils the annual report.

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    NEP adds Dutch facilities firm to ever-expanding group

    2015-07-13T18:27:00Z

    The NEP Group has agreed a deal to acquire Consolidated Media Industries (CMI), the Netherlands-based media group which includes the DutchView and Infostrada Creative Technology brands.

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    BBC working on radical commissioning overhaul

    2015-07-13T14:59:00Z

    The BBC is giving serious consideration to one of the most radical changes in its 93-year history: scrapping specific TV, radio and online commissioning teams and installing what has been dubbed internally as “genre commissioning”.