All Broadcast articles in 08 October 1999 – Page 5

  • News

    Chatsworth and Flicks launch TV4C

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Chatsworth Television and Flicks Films have banded together to launch a new entertainment production company and distribution outfit called TV4C, specialising in the development and production of live-action and animation programmes for young people,

  • News

    OPINION - C4 regains some of its old confidence

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Dawn Airey did not get where she is today by being shy and retiring. But even by her own pugnacious standards, her attack on Channel 4 at last week's Royal Television

  • News

    SOMETHIN' ELSE TO MAKE INTERACTIVE JAZZ ON 3

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Radio indie Somethin' Else has been commissioned to make an interactive version of its long-running BBC Radio 3 show, Jazz on 3, for BBC Digital radio. The programme, which features an exclusive session

  • News

    MCDONALD JOINS UP WITH SMOKE + MIRRORS 3D

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Former Amg/Film Factory animator Jason McDonald has joined Smoke + Mirrors 3D. McDonald, who spent the last three years at the VTR subsidiary, said he hoped to specialise in 3D character

  • News

    C4I sets up $24m drama/factual fund

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 International (C4I) has set up a rolling $24 million (£14.5 million) fund to develop and finance cutting-edge drama and factual programming over the next three years.Although the first deals will involve

  • News

    ITC CORRECTS BBC NEWS 24 AND BBC PARLIAMENT FIGURES

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission has corrected its figures for the cable distribution of BBC News 24 issued on 24 September, which were reported in Broadcast last week (1.10.99). According to the revised figures, News

  • News

    Carlton International sells 220 films to UPCtv

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Carlton International sold more than 220 films from its movie collection to cable broadcaster UPCtv at Mipcom this week, writes Lucy Rouse.Films from the Rank and Rohauer collections, including the Carry

  • News

    ITV previews its year 2000 line-up

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    ITV Network Centre chief executive Richard Eyre this week gave a sneak preview of a number of new shows being developed as part of ITV's central programming line-up in 2000.New drama includes a

  • News

    ISAACS LOOKS AT LIFE AND MUSIC OF POULENC FOR BBC 2

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Jeremy Isaacs Productions is making a 50-minute music and arts special about the life and music of Francis Poulenc for BBC 2. The programme, starring soprano Felicity Lott and featuring pianist Graham Johnson, was

  • News

    C4 veteran McGettigan departs after 18 years

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 director and general manager Frank McGettigan is leaving after more 18 years with the broadcaster, writes Wale Azeez.

  • News

    Latest Pebble Mill cuts claim 16 jobs

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    BBC Birmingham is to shed 16 management and support posts in the latest in a series of redundancies to hit the BBC's beleaguered Pebble Mill operation.The move follows the restructure introduced by new

  • News

    ITV BOOKS 130 EPISODES OF DOG & DUCK FROM UNITED

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Nigel Pickard has committed to a further 130 x 10-minute episodes of United Productions' pre-school series, Dog & Duck, before the first run of the show

  • News

    OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Dinosaurs thrash competition for BBC 1

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    BBC 1 stalked and conquered all at 20.30 on Monday (4 October) as the much-anticipated new series Walking with Dinosaurs amassed a 51 per cent share and 13.2 million viewers, writes Wale Azeez.

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    BBC 1 on top in Bafta kids' shortlist

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Bafta unveiled the shortlist for its fourth Children's Awards with the nominations dominated by BBC 1, writes Tina Mistry.

  • News

    WORLDWIDE AND BRITISH PATHE JOIN 1,000 HOURS OF FILM

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide and British Pathe have joined forces to create News Century, a series that will contain a catalogue of around 1,000 films dedicated to the most prominent news stories of the twentieth

  • News

    GEARHOUSE POSTS LOSSES OF£900,000

    1999-10-08T00:00:00Z

    Gearhouse has reported a loss of£900,000 for the year ending 30 June 1999. The loss, which was highlighted by the company in a series of profit warnings earlier this year,