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Granada Sky move
Granada Sky Broadcasting managing director Rob Ovens has been made redundant and will leave at the end of the month. His departure comes after ITV bought out Sky's stake in GSB and moved its remaining channel Men and Motors in-house. Ovens, who was at the company when it launched in ...
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Nokia to offer interactive Visual Radio
Nokia is hoping to boost take-up of its new Visual Radio technology by giving broadcasters the computer software for free.
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ITV to serve up primetime series on obesity
ITV has commissioned a primetime documentary series that will focus on Britain's first private obesity hospital.
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Midnight upgrade
Midnight Transfer has spent£2m investing in a digital intermediary service called 'DI from Day One'. It has bought technologies from FilmLight, Thomson Grass Valley, Root6, DVS and Barco. The DI process allows colourists to grade throughout the process. Midnight Transfer is launching the DI service next month.
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Stott to star as Rebus returns
ITV1 is to bring back Scottish detective drama Rebus, after a four-year break, with The Vice star Ken Stott taking over the lead role from John Hannah.
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Losing on appeal
The BBC pulled Bafta-nominated legal drama Outlaws after one series, despite reviewers' plaudits. Its creator Steve Coombes says the BBC's digital strategy is largely to blame
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On the Box - Life behind closed doors
Paul Bader wonders if some things are too private for TV, but will he make his excuses and leave while watching Extraordinary Families and Blame the Parents?
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Breaking free from TV
As Channel 4 invests in FourDocs, an open access broadband channel, has the time finally arrived for broadcasters to embrace the democratising possibilities of broadband technology, asks Peter Keighron.
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Please don't pick me
Impending cuts and a change of values has turned the once-prized post of controller of BBC1 into a poisoned chalice.
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Which way forward for indies?
As investors eye the TV production sector, new routes to growth have opened up for indies. Belinda Archer
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Never had it so good?
The success of the big players in the indie world must not be allowed to threaten those working on a smaller scale.
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The self-shooting survival guide
Self-shooting directors, APs on second camera and researchers with a handheld are now commonplace in factual programme-making. In a special report, Gareth Watkins
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Lost in translation
As NBC airs its US remake of The Office, Kenton Allen argues that British comedy should be able to cross the Atlantic without reversioning.
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The power of two
The duo at the helm of GMG Radio, a brand which encompasses the Smooth FM, Jazz FM and Real Radio network, insist that their group is not up for sale and their focus is firmly on expansion.
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NewsProducers warn on rise of super-indies
The rise of the super-indie is a growing concern for smaller independent producers who fear their increasing domination of the sector, according to this year's BroadcastIndie Survey.
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NewsRDF looks at April float
RDF Media has hired stockbrokers Investec to prepare the company for flotation on the London Stock Exchange as early as the end of April.
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NewsSpringer lined up for Trisha slot
Controversial US TV talk-show king Jerry Springer is set to front a new ITV daytime show being lined up to replace Trisha.
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NewsITV and C4 look at taking UKTV stake
ITV and Channel 4 have held separate talks with UKTV's owners, the BBC and Flextech, about taking a stake in the multichannel network.
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NewsChannel 4 bans F words from The F Word
Ofcom can breathe a sigh of relief - Gordon Ramsay's new cookery show, The F Word, will have to be subjected to the swear bleeper because Channel 4 wants it for a pre-watershed slot.