All Broadcast articles in 11 June 2004
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RatingsEastenders Wedding rings alarm bells for BBC
Sonia and Martin's big day only brought 9.6 million (53.5%) to BBC1 at 19.30 last night (10 June).
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NewsBBC Technology sale down to a two-horse race
Technology services group Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has pulled out of the race to buy the BBC's technology division, leaving two companies in contention.
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A drama or a crisis?
Fewer people are taking a butcher's at the residents of Albert Square - unless they're on webcams, of course. Peter Keighron finds out how the bigwigs plan to reverse the ratings decline and get things sorted.
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NewsSky clarifies ?freesat' contract
BSkyB today moved to clarify its new ?freesat' offer of up to 200 free TV and radio channels for a one-off fee after it emerged the full service could only be valid for two years.
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NewsHilsum scoops One World award
Channel 4 News's international editor Lindsey Hilsum last night scooped the top prize at the One World Media Awards.
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NewsMPs call on Ofcom to review EPGs
Ofcom is facing pressure from MPs to intervene to ensure TV channels are not left out in the cold by electronic programme guides.
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NewsHolmes scores Five Live sports show
GMTV frontman Eamonn Holmes has been signed up by BBC Radio 5 Live to host a new Saturday morning news and sports show.
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RatingsBorn Too Soon brings 3m to C4
A controversial documentary on premature births, Born Too Soon , pulled in 3 million (14.2%) and helped to boost C4's peaktime ratings at 21.00.
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Molinare recruits
Molinare has appointed two facility managers to support facility director Kate George. Senior post production manager Richard Knights has been internally promoted to take one of the positions. Richard Hart, previously head of post production at Oasis, takes up the other position on Monday. One of their first tasks will ...
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VTR looks at sales
Nicholas Wortman has become head of sales for VTR. Previously new business executive for The Hive, Wortman was chosen to head up the sales operations at VTR following the merger of the two companies last month.
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Strongroom kits out suite
Audio post facility Strongroom has finished the construction of a new HD protools 5.1 studio and is looking to branch out into video editing.
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Panorama IRA special
BBC1's flagship current affairs strand Panorama is to screen an edition of BBC Northern Ireland's current affairs strand Spotlight in one of its slots for the first time. The Superdollar special, which originally aired in Northern Ireland in March, traces counterfeit $100 bills from North Korea to an Official IRA ...
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Plymouth indie sells series to sky travel
Plymouth-based indie Twofour Productions has sold two series to Sky Travel. The 6 x 30-minute Park Life goes behind the scenes at Alton Towers, while the 7 x 30-minute documentary Newquay follows teenagers through their summer in the surfing capital of the UK.
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OSF hires Hawkins
Indie OSF has appointed Caroline Hawkins as an executive producer. She has previously worked on Delia Smith, Summer Holiday and Wild and Dangerous for the BBC and has also worked on shows for Five, National Geographic and TLC.
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Globes on living TV
Living TV has picked up the rights to screen the Golden Globe film awards until 2007, after sealing an exclusive three-year deal. The Flextech-owned channel secured the deal for coverage of the LA-based film and TV awards ceremony, seen as a pointer to the Oscars, after a successful screening of ...
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Fremantle media set to push fresh ideas
FremantleMedia has hired Alice Whiteley as its acquisitions and development director for its worldwide licensing division. She will be responsible for acquiring third-party brands and 'invigorating classic properties', in particular children's shows, to drive new programme ideas. Whiteley had been business development director at Ealing Family Entertainment before joining Fremantle ...
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Tiger to show how Hitler was fooled
Tiger Aspect is to recreate how the British fooled Hitler into thinking the D-Day landings would come through Calais in an ITV1 drama documentary, one of three new commissions for the indie's factual department.
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skin expands team
Skin has selected producer Matthew White to join its core design team. White, previously of Red, MPC and Cinesite, brings TSI's design agency numbers to four. White has been brought in to strengthen the team and to grow Skin's project range. There are plans to expand further towards the end ...
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Pact ethnic survey
Producers' alliance Pact is launching a survey into the success of ethnic minority-led production companies. Pact will first gather data from every independent producer in the UK to establish a benchmark of 'success'. It will then survey ethnic minority-led production companies to see how their achievements match up to the ...
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New editor at shine
Indie Shine has appointed Princess Productions series producer Jon Riley to take up the new post of editor, entertainment. Riley, who will report to creative director, entertainment Steven D Wright, will be charged with bolstering the indie's entertainment slate, particularly in comedy entertainment. His credits include A Wife for William, ...