All Broadcast articles in 19 November 1999 – Page 3
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BBC WORLDWIDE LANGUAGE PROJECT TARGETS KIDS
BBC Worldwide has launched a multimedia English teaching initiative aimed at children around the world called Learning English with Ozmo. The broadcast-led project is designed to teach children aged between five
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Emap plans station based on music mag Q
Emap is planning to launch a new radio station based on its music magazine, Q, as part of a long-term drive to create a raft of new digital TV and radio
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BARB'S FIRST DIGITAL FIGURES*
The first digital-only data from Barb shows ITV losing less audience share than the BBC in digital homes compared with all TV homes, writes Liz Shackleton. According to Barb's first figures
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YTTP backs Fenton's Zig Zag Productions
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Productions (YTTP) has launched a joint-venture with Zig Zag Productions, the indie set up by Danny Fenton and which was formerly housed at Transmedia Productions.Under the deal,
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Sharman bounces back home to Sky
Channel 4 controller of sport Mark Sharman is to return to BSkyB as its new director of broadcasting just one year after he quit the satellite broadcaster to join C4, writes
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NOMINATIONS FIGHT IT OUT AT BRITISH COMEDY AWARDS
Granada Media's Cold Feet and BBC Production's Ted and Ralph and Jonathan Creek Xmas Special: Black Canary have been nominated for best TV comedy drama at this year's British Comedy Awards,
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Avid axes jobs and merges UK bases
Avid Technology is axing around 11 per cent of its world-wide workforce, jettisoning its Media Illusion, Matador and stand-alone Marquee products as well as moving its UK headquarters in an attempt
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GENRE AUDIT: DOCUMENTARIES - Documentary in danger?
Are ever-tightening budgets and the rise of the docu-soap squeezing out the 'serious' documentary? Not necessarily, says Meg Carter, kicking off a three-page special.
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GENRE AUDIT: DOCUMENTARIES - The British disease
UK audiences may have lapped up docu-soaps but viewers in Europe and the US found them less appetising. Andy Fry reports on how UK distributors are fighting the handicap of being British to sell factual shows abroad.
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BBC RESOURCES PUTS ARCHIVE FOOTAGE ON CD-ROM
BBC Resources has designed and produced a series of 18 CD-Roms to showcase the corporation's archive footage. A Resources spokesman said the BBC was eventually looking to produce some 100 CD-Roms
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CHRYSALIS APPOINTS HEALY AS GALAXY CHIEF
Chrysalis Radio has poached Emap Radio creative director Martyn Healy to become the new managing director for Galaxy 105-106 in the north-east. Healy, 41, replaces Jim Hicks who was appointed managing
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Zenith starts Blaze with Ant & Dec deal
Zenith Entertainment is spinning off its entertainment, music and comedy production into a separate unit - Blaze Television - to be headed by Zenith director of entertainment programming Conor McAnally.The move
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OFF THE RECORD - Animal magnetism
Channel 4 is obviously keen to wrestle the mantle of pornographer-in-chief back from Channel 5 if its latest natural history show about sexual diversity in the animal kingdom is anything to
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Change of tune for ITV?
As ITV packs the schedules with ratings-grabbers such as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Men for Sale, Peter Keighron asks if it is backing away from its public service remit.
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VAMPIRE SHOW AMONG CINAR EUROPE'S ASIAN SALES DEAL
Cinar Europe has concluded a slew of sales to Asian broadcasters including the sale of animated series Mona the Vampire to Singapore's TV12. The 26 x 30-minute series was produced by
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Nickelodeon cuts Nick AM
Nickelodeon is to axe its long-running breakfast show, Nick AM, as part of a restructuring that will see the merger of its live and studio production outfits, writes John Plunkett.Staff were
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - BBC Red Alert ignored as ITV hits jackpot
New Saturday night show Red Alert with the National Lottery failed to provide BBC 1 with the winning numbers last weekend as ITV's You've been Framed and Coronation Street double hit
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Money Channel will air all day
The Money Channel has announced it will broadcast 24 hours a day when it launches next February and will plough significant extra investment into programming and e-commerce, writes John Plunkett.The station,
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Peel named ITC public affairs head
Richard Peel has been named as Paul Smee's replacement as the Independent Television Commission's director of public affairs and regions, writes Liz Shackleton.Peel, 47, worked in press and PR at BBC
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The BBC is to co-produce a third animated series with Italian and German public service broadcasters Rai and ZDF under the aegis of the European Broadcasting Union, writes Tim Westcott. The
The BBC is to co-produce a third animated series with Italian and German public service broadcasters Rai and ZDF under the aegis of the European Broadcasting Union, writes Tim Westcott. The