All News articles – Page 3742
-
NewsC4 to launch digital radio station
Channel 4 is set to launch a national digital radio station as part of a£90m fund to invest in new ventures.
-
NewsBBC2 Radio 2 goes from strength to strength
BBC Radio 2 has reported yet another set of record-breaking audience figures cementing its dominance of the national market.
-
NewsVaughan sheds Capital FM listeners
Shares in Capital Radio took a dramatic dive yesterday after Johnny Vaughan lost nearly 200,000 listeners from the groups flagship breakfast show.
-
NewsC4 and Sky battle over news Emmy
Channel 4 News and its rival Sky News have both been nominated for an international Emmy for best news coverage.
-
NewsEx-ITN boss joins BBC board
BBC chairman Michael Grade's plan to make the BBC governors more relevant took a step forward yesterday (Thursday) when a leading City lawyer was appointed vice chairman and former ITN editor-in-chief Richard Tait joined the board.
-
NewsPEER POLL: Ageism
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is the TV industry guilty of ageism?
-
News
Dyke to the rescue?
Hardly a weekend goes by at the moment without one national newspaper or another reporting that ITV chief executive Charles Allen's job is on the line and that Greg Dyke is being lined up to replace him.
-
News
UBC reports sales up
UBC Media, the group developing Channel 4's first radio venture, has reported a 78% rise in sales at its commercial division in the first quarter. The commercial unit, which produces and sells news bulletins to radio stations around the country, accounted for 40% of group revenues last year.
-
News
Zeppotron's new MD
Endemol UK subsidiary Zeppotron has appointed Annabel Jones as its new managing director. She fills the role vacated by Paul Gilheany eight months ago. Jones was previously Endemol's head of business development and will not be replaced.
-
News
Pepper shakes up love story
Pepper has completed picture post on BBC2 drama When I'm 64. The film is an unconventional love story about two gay men who reach retirement, and look back on the difficulties they experienced coming out in their youth. Colourist Chris Beeton graded and Simon ...
-
News
New pepper kit
Pepper has installed Finaliser, the Edifis colour processor and finishing system, to replace the Ursa Diamond that it sold to TK One in May. Finaliser provides extensive creative capabilities in disk-based and tape-to-tape colour correction, in HD as well as standard definition. Managing director Patrick Holzen said: 'We were looking ...
-
News
ITN to vote on rights for news staff
ITN will this Friday vote on new terms for staff hoping to move to BSkyB when it takes over the Five News contract at the end of the year and could strike if they are rejected. The NUJ and Bectu have been locked in talks with ITN and Five since ...
-
News
Ofcom imposes subtitle rules
Minority channels including Sky One and E4 are to be forced to provide subtitling and audio description for the first time.
-
News
Glassworks flames
Glassworks has bought four HD-compatible Flames to cater for an increase in HD work. Managing director Hector MacLeod said: 'The new Discreet suites can work at HD but when they work at standard definition the difference will really be noticed.' Glassworks is due to work on the new Robbie Williams ...
-
News
HD first for UK TV
Metro Broadcast, BowTie TV and ntl last week aired the UK's first commercial 4:2:2, MPeg-encoded, high definition transmission in Dolby 5.1 surround. NHK, the Japanese broadcaster, chose Metro to project manage the first European transmission of Nodojiman , the long-running Japanese karaoke entertainment show. It ...
-
News
Living TV orders more Queer Eye
Living TV has commissioned a second series of the British version of hit US gay makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy - and has also succeeded in selling the show back to America.
-
News
Two more leave TSI for Evolutions
Evolutions Television has poached two more senior staff from rival TSI, bringing the number of ex-TSI staff at the Berners Street facility to four.
-
News
Five Saturday slot for duel masters
Five has acquired the latest animé series from the maker of Pokémon after signing a deal with distributor Entertainment Rights. Duel Masters will air in Five's Saturday morning action slot, targeting boys aged seven to 11, from the autumn. The 26 x 30-minute series, spawned by a Japanese comic and ...
-
News
Oasis posts Olympic Dream
Oasis has completed My Big Fat Greek Olympic Dream , a Bite Yer Legs production for BBC3. The documentary followed Radio 1's part-Greek DJ Nemone for 12 months, as she chased her dream of competing at the Olympics, trying to prove that she ...
-
News
Web premiere for new WB drama series
The WB, Warner Bros' youth channel in the US, is to become the first network to premiere a new drama series online. The first episode of Jack and Bobby will be available to AOL's 3.5 million broadband subscribers for a week later in the summer. ...