All Broadcast articles in 06 March 2009
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Fading Jade Goody delays interview with Piers Morgan
Jade Goody's indepth interview with Piers Morgan for ITV1 has been put on ice due to her deteriorating health.
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ITV1 cooks up talent show
ITV1 is launching cooking contest show that will pit county against county in a bid to find the nation's best amateur chefs.
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ITV to cut a third of top staff
ITV will cut 30% of its highest ranking staff as part of its cost-saving measures, Broadcastnow can reveal.
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Stylista is a ratings faux pas
Five's acquisition Stylista got off to a disastrous start at 8pm last night, as just 253,000 (1%) tuned in for an hour. It was the channel's worst performance in the slot since at least 2001.
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Diverse makes Roberts head of factual
Diverse London has promoted The Real Slumdog Millionaires exec producer Mark Roberts to head of factual.
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Landmark to make BBC4 mobile doc
Landmark Films will track the life cycle of a mobile phone and investigate the phenomenon of “that text you shouldn't have sent” in an off-beat doc for BBC4.
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BBC1 orders more Lark Rise
BBC1 has ordered a third series of Sunday night favourite Lark Rise to Candleford.
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Landmark to make BBC4 mobile doc
Landmark Films will track the life cycle of a mobile phone and investigate the phenomenon of “that text you shouldn't have sent” in an off-beat doc for BBC4.
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Pro-Bel and Snell and Wilcox confirm merger
Two of the broadcast industry's biggest manufacturers, Pro-Bel and Snell and Wilcox, are to merge, creating a new joint company.
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Red Riding brings 2.6m to C4
Channel 4's big winter drama Red Riding grabbed a strong total audience of 2.6m viewers (12.9% share) over two hours last night at 9pm.
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Comment
TV Critics 6 March ‘09
“If we get a better TV offering this year, we'll be lucky, though I very much doubt we will.” Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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Moorhouse appointed Gravity COO
Gravity Media Group, the owner of Gearhouse Broadcast and outside broadcast company 021 Television, has promoted group technical director Kevin Moorhouse to the role of chief operating officer.
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ITV will scrap 70 unfilled roles
ITV will leave 70 vacancies unfilled on top of cutting 600 posts as part of its swingeing cost-saving measures.
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UKTV joins Sky Player
BSkyB's online TV subscription service Sky Player has added six channels, including two from UKTV.
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Ratings
BBC2's Olympic Dream smashed
BBC2's dreams of Olympic glory were unceremoniously dashed as it new documentary trilogy Building the Olympic Dream could only interest 602,000 viewers (2.5% share) at 9pm, it's worst performing show in the key slot since September 2008.
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Living unveil Jade's wedding preparations
Video: Living has released footage from the latest instalment of its reality series with terminally ill celebrity Jade Goody, based around preparations for her wedding to partner Jack Tweed.
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Five puts 87 jobs under threat
One in four jobs are under threat at Five in a major restructure to remove layers of management at the broadcaster.
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Multiplatform briefs 6 March
News in briefs from Broadcast magazine dated 6 March featuring Burn After Listening, Crufts, Fireworks International, 4iP and BT Vision.
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Medway enhances FCP-Avid transfer
Marquis Broadcast has come up with a new feature for its Medway transfer and format conversion software that allows editors to move an entire sequence between Final Cut Pro (FCP) and Avid Media Composer in a single drag-and-drop operation.
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Vitec axes jobs despite profits
Vitec Group has made job cuts in its broadcast systems division despite pocketing a pre-tax profit of£35m last year, an increase of 17% on 2007.