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Griffee signs new doc
The BBC's English regions department is preparing the first of the landmark shows it promised when it axed regional strand Out and About last year, writes Ashley Davies.
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NewsRadio Advertising Bureau hires King as chair
Former Capital Radio managing director Martina King has been appointed chairman of the Radio Advertising Bureau, the body charged with drawing advertisers to commercial radio.
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Ant and Dec win BBC 1 slot
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has commissioned a longer second run of Saturday night entertainment show Friends Like These and has taken out an option for a third series, writes Tim Dams.
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Dying Rooms duo to make jail kids doc
The makers of acclaimed documentaries The Dying Rooms and Eyes of a Child have begun work on a feature-length BBC 1 documentary about juvenile imprisonment, writes Tim Dams.
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Overnight Ratings - Al-Fayed security man grips Tonight audience
ITV clocked up a number of successes last week, with strong showings for programmes across the week, writes Paul Donovan.
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McGrath steps up to C4 daytime role
Channel 4 daytime deputy commissioning editor Jo McGrath has been confirmed as the channel's new department head, replacing Julia Foote LeStage who returned to the US last month, writes Ashley Davies.
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Dunlop and Jermey head ITN channel
ITN has named EuroNews director of news Bill Dunlop as editor of ITN's new 24-hour channel and ITN director of development Mike Jermey as launch managing director, writes Tara Conlan.
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ITV opens soap pitch and rejigs daytime
ITV director of programmes David Liddiment has asked a selection of preferred suppliers to come up with a new teen soap to replace Home and Away, in the week that the
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Smith quits R1 to head Capital FM
Capital Radio has poached BBC Radio 1 head of music policy Jeff Smith to become programme controller of London station 95.8 Capital FM, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Britt Allcroft buys Media Merchants
Britt Allcroft has bought Art Attack indie Media Merchants for£14 million as it looks to boost its presence in children's programming and merchandising, writes Ashley Davies.
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Blackburn to see first BBC 'open centre'
The BBC is pressing ahead with its controversial plan to create a chain of multimedia centres in high streets across the UK, with the first pilot store due to debut in Blackburn this autumn, writes Tim Dams.
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SRH BIDS FOR BORDER
Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) tabled a£116 million hostile bid for Border Television on Wednesday (15 March). SRH chief executive Richard Findlay made an offer to Border shareholders after failing to
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NewsFormer Ofcom exec makes Ingenious move
Media investment group Ingenious has hired former Ofcom executive Kip Meek as a board director.
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WINTERTON STEPS DOWN
Nick Winterton, who has been chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Media Group for the past eight years, has stepped down because of the weight of other parliamentary duties. He is succeeded
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MICROSOFT FUNDS C4 SERIES
Microsoft is funding three four-minute programmes about the internet on Channel 4. The short films, Living in the e-World, produced by indie The Beach, will be broadcast as part of C4's
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SKY SPORTS TEES OFF
Sky Sports has secured rights to the Severiano Ballesteros golf trophy, the European equivalent of the Ryder Cup that pitches continental teams against the UK and starts next month. The broadcaster
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NewsThompson confirms more BBC job cuts on the way
BBC director general Mark Thompson confirmed yesterday that there will be job cuts following the lower than hoped for licence fee settlement.
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ITN BEATS LM
ITN has won its libel case against LM, formerly Living Marxism magazine, which in 1997 accused reporters Penny Marshall and Ian Williams of fabrication in a 1992 story about a Serb-run
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On Digital bolsters new launch team
On Digital is to hire up to six senior executives to spearhead development of further 'On'-branded channels.The digital terrestrial broadcaster, which last month relaunched its two home-grown sports channels as On
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Health venture in staff drive
The Natural Health Channel, the new digital channel unveiled this week by The Sanctuary Group and West 175 Media Group, is seeking to hire up to 45 people before launching later this year, writes Colin Robertson.