All Broadcast articles in 14 May 2004 – Page 5
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Grade expectations
Charter review, the appointment of the new director general and the future of the governors themselves are all critical issues waiting in Michael Grade's in-tray when he takes over as chairman
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kiddies show wide eye has world in sight
Abbey Home Media has sold pre-school BBC co-production Wide Eye to nearly a dozen broadcasters. The series is made by King Rollo Films and features voiceovers from Anton Rogers and Jane Horrocks. Buyers of the 26 x 10-minute series include ABC in Australia, M Net in South Africa, TV3 in ...
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ITV Westcountry secures first network order
ITV Westcountry has been commissioned to make its first drama programme for the network with a 90-minute broadcast pilot about a Devon-based detective.
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One has new flame
Ascent Media-owned post-production facility One has bought a new Flame system based on SGI's Tezro workstation. The SGI Tezro allows data to be transferred between the various components at high rates and incorporates the bandwidth and capabilities for real-time data transfers of 2K resolution and greater.
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Pinewood floats
Pinewood Shepperton film studio last week raised£46m through a share flotation on the London stock exchange. Nearly 28 million shares were sold
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Free racing on Sky
The Horse Racing Channel, the channel being planned by racecourses to rival Arena/BSkyB consortium Attheraces, will be offered free to air for the first two months after launch before becoming a subscription service on Sky. The channel, which is backed by 28 racecourses including Goodwood, Newbury and Newmarket, is also ...
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hallmark reports subscriber growth
The international arm of the American Hallmark Channel, put up for sale by owners Crown Media last month, has reported a 5% growth in subscribers. The business, which includes channels in the UK, Latin America and Asia, grew its subscriber base to 57.3 million for the three months to 31 ...
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Target takes on new head of licensing
Target Entertainment has hired Helen Howells as director of international licensing. Howells joins Target from 4 Kids Entertainment. In her new post, Howells will manage the licensing of Target properties such as Meg and Mog and Funky Valley - while identifying programmes for acquisition.
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Panorama to make Iraq torture special
BBC1 is to screen a special 60-minute Panorama investigation at 21.00 on Wednesday (19 May) into the torture allegations against coalition troops in Iraq. The fast-turn around special - greenlit at the end of last week - will be fronted by Jane Corbin and will ...
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LRC seeks millions
The Local Radio Company (LRC), headed by the former management team of Jazz FM, is seeking to raise£47.3m to fund the purchase of Radio Investments through an accelerated flotation on AIM. LRC, led by former Jazz FM chief executive Richard Wheatley, is to place 52.7 million shares on the junior ...
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Mpc staff in rejig
MPC has shuffled some of its senior staff. Graham Bird has become head of production for commercials and television programmes with Alex Webster as his deputy, while Amanda Libotte has been made head of operations within the same area. Martin Hobbs has been appointed as head of production for film ...
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School Day (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star
'This was thoughtful and informative programming.'...
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School Day (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'A good-hearted and ultimately persuasive corrective to lazy teacher-knocking.'...
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School Day (BBC1) - Thomas Sutcliffe, Independent
?School Day showed that it understood the basics of the curriculum, but couldn't come up with anything particularly...
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School Day (BBC1) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
?The hour-long film left me reeling from information overload, and coming down with all sorts of attention-deficit ...
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School Day (BBC1) - Joe Joseph, The Times
?It's approach was to treat teaching as some kind of SAS mission from which you might not return alive.? ...
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RatingsBBC1's The Protectors plummets to 9%
BBC1 deepened its ratings problems on a Wednesday with its worst peaktime share for that day since at least 2001 as The Protectors drew an average of just 2.2 million (10.1%).
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The filth and the fury
In the four decades since Mary Whitehouse began her crusade to save us from TV filth her views have been roundly mocked - but broadcasters have been forced to listen more to viewers.
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NewsKeating set for BBC2 role
BBC4 controller Roly Keating is expected to be unveiled as the new controller of BBC2 today (Friday) morning.
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NewsPEER POLL: BBC3
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is BBC3 succeeding in connecting young audiences with PSB?