All Broadcast articles in 16 March 2001 – Page 3
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DCMS should not be scrapped.
While ministers have been eager to paper over tensions that have existed between the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Trade & Industry (DTI), MPs reporting
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STEVENSON TAKES OVER HIT'S CREATIVE TEAM.
Hit Entertainment has appointed Jocelyn Stevenson to head its creative team. She will take the newly-created role of executive vice-president, creative and development, reporting directly to Hit chief executive Peter Orton.
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FOX KIDS: CORRECTION.
An item on Fox Kids Europe's results (Broadcast, 2.3.01) was incorrectly headed 'Fox Kids profits fall'. The outfit saw EBITDA fall from $26.2m (£18m) to $16.3m (£11m) in the six months
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SCRIPT COMPETITION.
Granada has released details of its competition to find writing talent in the north-west. Applicants should submit a one-page idea on the theme of city life and a five-page script to
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RA supports community radio stations.
The Radio Authority is advocating the establishment of a new radio sector that could lead to community broadcasters competing with commercial stations, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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CIVILIAN UPS HOLDING.
Civilian Content, which finances, produces and exploits UK TV and film rights, has increased its shareholding in international sales agent The Sales Company from 25 per cent to 75 per cent.
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EBU TO CHOOSE HEAD.
Broadcasters are to meet in Geneva on Friday (16 March) to appoint the next secretary general of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBU operates the Eurovision network and serves 69
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'Virtual high street' to challenge Open.
TV consultancy Smashed Atom has been hired by telecoms specialist Energis Interactive to build a rival interactive shopping service to BSkyB's Open ..., writes Simon Ellery.
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Capital Radio chief to quit for own venture.
Capital Radio group director of programmes Richard Park has resigned from the company after nearly 14 years to set up his own venture, Park Broadcasting, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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CAPITAL SLIMS DOWN.
Capital Radio Group has off-loaded two of its smaller regional stations to Radio Investments in a deal worth£9.5m. The sale of Sunderland-based Sun FM and Mix 96 in Aylesbury follows
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Indies cheer tax breaks.
Independent producers have welcomed Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget announcement that sale and lease back tax breaks will be extended until 2005.The concessions, known as section 48 reliefs, were originally meant to
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Philips to sell Marantz brand.
Dutch electronics giant Philips is to sell the Marantz trademark plus the US and European sales arms of the audio equipment manufacturer to Marantz Japan Inc (MJI).Philips currently owns 51.5 per
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BOOST FOR WEBCASTER.
Webstreaming specialist Virtue Broadcasting is to receive a EUR12m (£7.6m) investment from telco Interoute to provide exclusive streaming and hosting services across its European fibre optic network. The partnership will enable
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BROADCASTERS FEATURE IN TOP BRANDS BOOK.
A number of broadcasting companies have made it into the 2001 edition of the Superbrands top 100 consumer brands book. In addition to regulars BBC and CNN, Channel 4 and Sky
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BLOBHEADS ON NICK UK.
Nickelodeon UK has struck a deal with Toronto-based children's specialist Decode Entertainment for a new live action/ animated series, The Blobheads, writes Simon Ellery.
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GWYNHELEK TO PUT BISHOP BILL IN THE FRAME.
Penzance-based indie Gwynhelek is producing a 4 x 25-minute profile of a high-profile local bishop for Carlton Westcountry, with a 60-minute version being cut for the ITV controller of news, current
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TRADE TALK - ON THE BOX - Better than school.
Celador head of comedy Mike Whitehall is shocked at Crossroads' use of child labour but enjoys having his toes curled by C4's Borat.
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Media buyer supports BBC's status.
David Pattison, chief executive of media buying firm New PHD and a former frontrunner for the still-vacant ITV chief executive role, has spoken out against the widely held view that the BBC should be overseen by a single regulator, writes Lucy Rouse.
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PLANS FOR JOINT EXIT POLL DUMPED BY BBC/ITV.
ITV and the BBC have scrapped plans to use a joint exit poll system during the next general election. An ITV spokesman said it had decided not to opt for a
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Pressure mounts to cut BBC governors' powers.
The government is to come under further pressure to curtail the powers of the BBC governors this week, following the publication of the Commons' media select committee report into the white