All News articles – Page 5573

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - Snap happy

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Delegates at this week's Radio Festival in Cardiff are being armed with cameras disguised as radios in a cunning wheeze by Digital One and BBC Digital Radio. Festival-goers are being encouraged

  • News

    RADIO SPECIAL - Growing pains

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The BBC does not air any radio shows for people under 15 - a situation that Children 2000 wants rectified.

  • News

    Granada Media in Liverpool link-up

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The launch of a Liverpool Football Club TV channel is one of the options being considered by the club and Granada Media, in the wake of the strategic alliance between the

  • News

    Prebble named as Grabiner pulls out

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media director of channels and interactive media Stuart Prebble has stepped in as On Digital chief executive after Stephen Grabiner resigned suddenly on Tuesday (12 July).Grabiner is understood to be

  • News

    Jungle Run set to go into production

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media children's department is about to go into production with a new adventure gameshow for transmission on CITV from September, writes Ashley Davies.

  • News

    OVERTON TO HOST GLR SLOT

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Former Talk Radio breakfast show presenter Bill Overton is to co-host the same slot for BBC London regional station GLR 94.9FM. Overton will present the show with Clare McDonnell on the

  • News

    Men & Motors job given to Hamilton

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSkyB) has appointed Ian Hamilton to take over from Suzan Price as editor of programmes for men's lifestyle channel Men & Motors, writes Liz Shackleton.

  • News

    POWER RANGERS HERALDS START OF FOX KIDS' SUMMER

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Fox Kids' summer schedule will launch on Saturday (17 July) with the UK cable and satellite premiere of Power Rangers in Space. The 46 x 30-minute animation will go out at

  • News

    NATIONAL ENQUIRER FOCUS FOR USP SHOWBIZ GOSSIP SHOW

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Radio indie USP Radio Projects has been commissioned to make a fortnightly Hollywood news and gossip show based around the US magazine National Enquirer.USP was commissioned by public relations company Aspect

  • News

    Killick gets editor job at Watchdog

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has drafted in a new editor for consumer affairs show Watchdog who has vowed to give the series 'more teeth', writes Tim Dams. Mark Killick, a senior reporter/producer for Panorama, joins on 4 August.

  • News

    Edinburgh One to One

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Senior commissioning executives from four of the five terrestrial channels and Sky One have been lined up to appear at the 1999 Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival's Controller One to One strand, writes Tim Dams.

  • News

    NEW ECLIPSE STATION

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    A new radio station for the south-west will launch on 26 July to cover the eclipse and the numerous summer music festivals in the area. Eclipse FM will be run on

  • News

    Smith, Dyke lined up for RTS event

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    A face the press-style session featuring Media Secretary Chris Smith and BBC director general designate Greg Dyke's first public speech since his appointment are lined up for the Royal Television Society's

  • News

    OFF THE RECORD - =. DUTY LOG

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    This week's round-up of incoming calls is from Talk Radio. Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...A stressful caller: 'Stress is a reaction to technology.

  • News

    The new draw

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    When Camilla Deakin was made animation chief at C4 last week, many animators' first reaction was to ask who she was. Ashley Davies reports.

  • News

    TWAMLEY TO RED DRAGON

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Capital Radio has appointed Paul Twamley as the non-executive chairman of its Welsh radio group, Red Dragon Radio. Twamley is currently group finance director at utility company Hyder and a non-executive

  • News

    STAR TV TO MANAGE NAT GEO'S INDIAN DISTRIBUTION

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    National Geographic has linked up with Star TV, allowing the News Corp-backed company to manage Nat Geo's distribution and advertising sales in India. Star adds National Geographic to its bouquet of

  • News

    Disney rebuilding its Euro operation

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Disney's European and UK operations are set to be restructured in line with internal streamlining within the Disney corporation.Part of a drive to consolidate Disney's international business, it comes after Disney/ABC

  • News

    MPC opens state-of-the-art digs

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Moving Picture Company, one of London's largest video facilities, has relocated for the first time in its history - opening a state-of-the-art facility designed around digital networking and video servers.The facility

  • News

    DUO IN DIGITAL RADIO DRIVE

    1999-07-16T00:00:00Z

    Director of BBC radio Jenny Abramsky and Paul Brown, chairman and chief executive of the Commercial Radio Companies Association, will urge radio executives to unite in promoting digital radio when they