All Broadcast articles in 11 October 2002 – Page 3
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Target sets up licensing division
Target Distribution has launched a dedicated licensing arm in a bid to become a 'one-stop shop' for television and merchandising rights, writes Jane Marlow
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Record year for BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide is claiming record programming deals at this year's Mipcom television market, notching up more than£5m worth of co-productions and programme licensing agreements, writes Paul Revoir
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Lygo raps BBC over ratings war
Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo has added his voice to the growing clamour of criticism over the BBC's burgeoning commercialism with a warning that it should not abuse its power in a bid to chase ratings, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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TWI pushes into Europe
Indie TWI is setting up production bases in Germany, Scandinavia and France and has hired two production heavyweights to beef up its UK production in a concerted move for growth, writes Penny Hughes
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Falling literacy blamed on BBC
An attack on the BBC for dumbing down children's programmes won a standing ovation from delegates yesterday. ...
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German media giant admits backing Hitler
Bertelsmann, the German media empire, built its post-war wealth on a lie, it has admitted, acknowledging that the l...
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Bullish Murdoch sticks to his guns
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch yesterday attempted to reassure nervous News Corp shareholders by sticking to previous ...
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It's not hard work, I just have to be me
His skin glows like a burnished mahogany table and his voice is as gnarled as an old bedpost. Yet to millions of fe...
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Boss quits over telly racing row
The Jockey Club's security chief sensationally quit yesterday as horseracing reeled from TV claims that the sport i...
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Lesbian show 'too clean' say angry viewers
Viewers rang the BBC last night to moan about lesbian drama Tipping The Velvet ' saying it wasn't raunchy enough. ...
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Magic is back
Children's classic The Magic Roundabout is to be made into a film starring Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams. ...
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Launching digital channels 'will put BBC£100m in red'
The cost of funding new digital TV channels will plunge the BBC into the red by almost£100 million next year, say ...
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MacIntyre care home libel win
A police force is facing a£750,000 legal bill after it admitted making libellous comments about a TV documentary f...
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Fame school is a 'flopstar'
The BBC's much-hyped reality talent show Fame Academy is failing to make the grade, having shed almost one million ...
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BSkyB chief executive paid£7.5m despite£1.3bn loss
The chief executive of satellite television group BkyB was paid£7.5 million last year, even though the company rep...
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NewsThompson to take axe to C4 schedule
Channel 4 chief executive Mark Thompson is to announce sweeping programming changes next week, following his pledge to reinvent the C4 schedule in his MacTaggart lecture in August, writes Penny Hughes
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NewsRevamped Crossroads to be 'fantastic'
Carlton is hoping to relaunch its daytime soap Crossroads as a glamorous fantasy series with 'influences from Greek tragedy' when it returns to ITV in January, writes Steve Aston
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NewsAttenborough: no plans to quit
Veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough has confirmed he has no intention of hanging up his boots as the BBC's leading natural history presenter, despite passing his 76th birthday, writes David Wood