All Broadcast articles in 09 February 2001 – Page 5
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Cut-price BBC budget.
BBC director general Greg Dyke has this week confirmed programming budgets for the year 2002/2003 which contradict proposed budget figures announced by the corporation just last month. In an address to BBC
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BBC Radio boosts indie productions.
BBC Radio networks look set to exceed their 10 per cent voluntary targets for indie productions in the next financial year, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC digital launch.
The BBC is to launch its interactive services over digital satellite from the summer, making the corporation's interactive Wimbledon and Open Golf Championships available to digital satellite viewers for the first
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BBC and NTL in sports venture.
The BBC is expected to announce as early as next week that it is to launch a pay-per-view sports channel in partnership with commercial operator Premium TV. Broadcast has learnt that Premium
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BBC enforcer roles created.
The controllers of BBC 1 and BBC 2 have created two new channel enforcer roles to ensure greater consistency from development stage through to programme output and presentation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC ups film staff.
BBC films has promoted head of development Tracey Schofield to executive producer. Reporting to head of BBC films David Thompson, Schofield will executive produce projects for the department and retain overall
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Glazier heads BBC light entertainment.
BBC entertainment executive producer Jonathan Glazier has been appointed to the temporary role of editor, light entertainment and will oversee the light entertainment department when its controller, David Young, leaves the
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BBC chiefs order four documentary projects.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root and controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody have ordered four documentary projects to be produced in-house by BBC documentaries, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Capital beats Kiss to win younger market.
Capital 95.8 FM clawed back its title as the leading London radio station for the under-25s after reversing Kiss 100 FM's former lead, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Kirch set for world cup bids.
German media company Kirch Group is to press ahead with plans to auction rights to the 2002 World Cup this week, after apparently agreeing to terms which state matches must be made available free-to-air, write Simon Ellery and John Lewis.
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Solanki takes Birmingham Leisure role.
BBC Birmingham editor of Asian programmes Paresh Solanki has been appointed to the role of BBC Birmingham managing editor, leisure and factual entertainment. He effectively replaces head of lifestyle and features Kate
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Ratings - Cold Climate failed to blaze a ratings trail.
BBC 1'S latest period drama, Love in a Cold Climate, met expectations but failed to turn up the heat, writes Jon Rogers.
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On the box - Money for old rope.
Hat Trick producer Iain Coyle thinks that Bargain Hunt is good value but Richard and Judy's farcical Midday Money is a dunce.
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Chrysalis sheds key brands to refocus business.
Chrysalis Visual Entertainment is consolidating its television businesses into three genres and dropping three core brands to shore up its position as one of the UK's top 10 indies, writes Simon Ellery.
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Dubs is new BSC chairman.
Media secretary Chris Smith has raided the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to fill the vacant chairman role at the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC), writes Penny Hughes.
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Losses at BSkyB.
BSkyB has unveiled pre-tax losses of£112m for the six months to 31 December 2000, despite an 82 per cent jump in operating profit to£51m compared to last year. Latest
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Indie Business - The quest for self-control.
Despite fears of a recession, independent producers remain bullish about the future. But unless they fight for ownership of ideas, they may lose out in the long run to media groups and broadcasters. Peter Keighron reports.
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Indie Business: Interview - A precarious life.
While the dominant indies are growing in size and basking in economic confidence (see Indie Business, pages 16-17), the majority of smaller companies live from hand to mouth. For fledgling outfit The Producers, past successes are no guarantee of future co
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Hit to buy US company.
Bob the Builder rights owner Hit Entertainment is in advanced talks to buy a US company and has suspended trading of its shares. The outfit, valued at about£415m, has dismissed
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Eye group buys stake in football channel.
Eye Group, the commercial rights exploitation, event management and production company, has paid£5m for a 51 per cent stake in The Footballer's Football Channel, due to launch on Sky in