All Broadcast articles in 3 July 2014
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NewsCharlie Bunce handed Renegade role
Renegade Pictures has recruited Charlie Bunce as its first head of features and formats for television in an effort to boost its output in these genres.
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NewsAvid updates audio control surfaces
Avid has released updates for its S6 and System 5 control surfaces.
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Editshare updates storage system
Editshare has released version 7 of its EditShare Storage platform.
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NewsMirada set to raise £3.5m
AIM-listed Mirada is to raise approximately £3.5 million through the placement of 28m shares at 12.5p per share.
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NewsFineline funds MAMA Youth Project
Fineline Media Finance has provided funding to the MAMA Youth Project to purchase two Avid Media Composer Symphony edit suites
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NewsHalf of UK wants BBC licence fee scrapped
More than half of the British public are in favour of scrapping the licence fee and making the BBC self-sufficient, according to research.
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NewsHorrible Histories set for CBBC revival
CBBC is planning to return to Horrible Histories for a full series of the sketch comedy.
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NewsITV to visit Hatton Gardens
Argonon-backed producer BriteSpark Films will lift the lid on the secretive Hatton Garden jewellery trade in an ITV documentary.
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NewsPearl promoted to C4 news deputy
Dispatches editor Daniel Pearl has been promoted to Channel 4’s deputy head of news and current affairs.
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NewsBake Off to get BBC2 spin-off show
The Great British Bake Off may be moving to BBC1 later this year, but its life on BBC2 is not yet over as the channel prepares an Apprentice: You’re Fired-style spin-off show.
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NewsC5 re-orders five factual series
Channel 5 has recommissioned five documentary series as part of a push to grow its returning brands.
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NewsWall to Wall prepares WDYTYA website
Wall to Wall Television has partnered with genealogy service Findmypast to launch a Who Do You Think You Are? website.
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RatingsThe Honourable Woman debuts with 2.1m
THURSDAY: BBC2’s Maggie Gyllenhaal drama The Honourable Woman made a solid start, as Channel 4’s The Secret Life of Students failed to make a big impression.
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NewsINFOGRAPHIC: Local TV: Do you know it's coming?
A look at how aware consumers around Britain are of the launch of local TV
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CriticsTV Critics: The Honourable Woman; The Secret Life of Students; Inside Asprey
“On the strength of this first episode, finally, a British victory might come out of this summer.”
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NewsBBC launches virtual local radio initiative
BBC Radio Northampton today became the first of the broadcaster’s local stations to switch to virtualised equipment and infrastructure.
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NewsLily's Driftwood Bay returns to Nick
Nickelodeon has commissioned a second series of pre-school series Lily’s Driftwood Bay from Belfast indie Sixteen South.
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NewsAlison Owen: international market hampering drama diversity
Case Histories producer Alison Owen has claimed that diversity in UK drama is being hampered by the increasingly international nature of the genre.