All Broadcast articles in 11 February 2005
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NewsThe Brits entertain 7m
The glitz of the annual Brit Awardsbrought a peak audience of 7 million (31%) to ITV1 at 9.30pm.
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NewsMTV launches Advance Warning Europe
MTV is to roll its US new music show format Advance Warninginto Europe.
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NewsSMG rebuffs Alli Virgin radio bid
SMG has rejected a£100m bid for its Virgin Radio business from a private equity group led by Labour peer Lord Waheed Alli.
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NewsPlayboy TV fined£25,000
Ofcom has slapped a£25,000 fine on softcore sex channel Playboy TV for broadcasting graphic sex.
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NewsC4 sets up£10m new ideas fund
Channel 4 has stepped up its search for innovative programming by launching a new dedicated£10m fund.
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NewsBrown asks TV execs to back Year of Volunteer
Mark Thompson, Andy Duncan and Charles Allen were among a number of senior TV executives who met chancellor Gordon Brown this week to help raise the profile of the government's Year of the Volunteer initiative.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC1
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Would BBC1 benefit from a change in controller?
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Who should rule the BBC?
Charles AllenITV supports a strong BBC and the renewal of the Charter. But it has long been clear to the industry that the BBC governors' dual role as management and regulatory board does not work. The events of the past two years have proved that beyond doubt and now Lord ...
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News8.8m support England game
England's lacklustre performance on the pitch in a friendly tie against Holland still brought in the viewers to BBC1 with a peak audience of 8.8 million (36.1%) at 9pm.
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Voting for UK Post
The shortlist for the delayed second regional seat on the UK Post board has been confirmed. The candidates include managing director Gerard Brady, Offline Central; managing director David Mousley, Red Vision;
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Smooth to roll out
Guardian Media Group Radio is to launch its Smooth FM station nationwide on the Sky Digital platform. The station, which currently airs a mix of soul and R'n'B music in the north-west, will begin broadcasting across the country on channel 878 from 14 February. It rebranded as Smooth last year ...
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Optomen tests religions
World record-holding triple jumper and devout Christian Jonathan Edwards is to front a Channel 4 show that tries to help members of the public improve their lives with spiritual practice.
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Ladbroke wins multiple radio order
Ladbroke Productions has picked up 17 commissions from BBC radio including a range of drama and documentary series. Highlights include a three-hour recording of period stage play Don Carlos, starring Sir Derek Jacobi, for Radio 3. The executive producers on all shows, which will air across ...
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Jowell reassures
Media secretary Tessa Jowell has given assurances to potential bidders for BBC Broadcast that they will be provided with financial information prior to bidding for the commercial transmission arm. 'I understand that the BBC plan is to begin the formal sale process by early March and will make increasing levels ...
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Jono moves into weekend slot at LBC
Jono Coleman, the breakfast DJ axed from Chrysalis-owned Heart 106.2 last week, is to host a new weekend show on its sister speech station, LBC 97.3. Coleman will host his last show at Heart on 24 March and will take up his 10am to 1pm slot at LBC on 9 ...
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Jetix streamlines
Kids broadcaster Jetix Europe has confirmed that it has no plans to replace senior vice-president of programming and acquisitions Benoit Runel, who left the company unexpectedly last week. Director of European acquisitions Henrietta Hurford Jones and creative and development director Michael Lekes will now split Runel's role between them and ...
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Sky signs performer for Jackson trial
Sky has signed up a professional Michael Jackson impersonator to play the troubled singer in its daily reconstructions of the pop star's trial. Actor Edward Moss has been performing as Michael Jackson since 1996. The Michael Jackson Trial, a co-production with E! Entertainment, will air as ...
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Hollyoaks in text message spin-off series
Channel 4 New Media and Conker Media - Mersey Television's digital development and production division - are launching an improved mobile phone soap opera that will run alongside Channel 4's Hollyoaks.
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Hackenbacker takes on Morris
Hackenbacker Audio Post production has completed work on the Chris Morris production Nathan Barley. Certain sequences needed to appear as if the viewer was looking directly at the internet so an old analogue system was used to give a different, more metallic sound. The series was ...
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Ofcom gets it mostly right
Ofcom's reports have made a valuable contribution to the debate about the future of PSB - and that includes the BBC.