All Broadcast articles in 21 July 2006 – Page 3
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NewsLove Island is no match for Big Brother
In last week's 'triple whammy' of reality shows in peaktime it was ITV1's Love Islandthat suffered most against BBC1's Only Fools on Horsesand Channel 4's Big Brother.
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Bermuda contest
Bermuda Shorts is launching a bi-monthly competition, Gate, to give aspiring animation directors a chance to promote their work and direct commercials.
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Plaskow joins Beautiful TV
Beautiful TV has hired Claire Plaskow from MTV Networks UK & Ireland.
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NewsRantzen to expose scams in BBC show
Consumer champions Esther Rantzen and Lynn Faulds Wood are to be brought together in a new consumer action series ordered by BBC features and factual entertainment commissioner Elaine Bedell.
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NewsControllers lose out in BBC restructure
This week's massive shake-up of the BBC will dilute channel controllers' power, say BBC insiders, by handing power and money to a new breed of genre-based 'super commissioners'.
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NewsFive gets on talent show bandwagon
Five is to launch a celebrity talent contest fronted by former Hear'Say singer Myleene Klass with Julian Clary and Andi Peters lined up as judges.
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The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty argues that the BBC once ruled the analogue world, but now that golden age is over Mark Thompson's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era.
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Comment: The Empire Fights Back
David Docherty thinks that the BBC's reforms are critical to its survival in the broadband era
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Impact Image to provide HD shots of Red Arrows
Air-to-air filming specialist Impact Image has been commissioned to provide the high-definition aerial photography for a BBC1 documentary on the Royal Air Force's official aerobatics display team, the Red Arrows.
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Arqiva kicks off DSO
Arqiva has started work on the first sites to be switched over to digital in an engineering project estimated to cost a total of£500m.
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Anthony promoted
Urban radio station Choice FM has made former DJ Kirk Anthony its new head of music with overall responsibility for music programming.
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Taylor revisits Al-Qaeda for terror anniversary
Veteran reporter Peter Taylor is to make a new series of programmes on Al-Qaeda, timed for broadcast on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.
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Elstree lease put up for tender again
The current home of Big Brotherand Dancing on Ice, Elstree Film and Television Studios (EF&TVS), is to re-tender its lease this week.
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BBC plans African eco build
The BBC is to build an eco lodge in Africa from scratch as part of a major new BBC1 primetime series being described as one of the corporation's most important projects of 2007.
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ITN to adopt Avid for newsrooms
ITN has reached an outline agreement with Avid to provide a media management system for ITN's news and programme production departments.
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Soho Eds adds two new managers
Talent agency Soho Editors has made two appointments to its senior management team.
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NewsSky bets£400m on broadband market
Sky's converged media initiative may have spooked the City but it's the right strategy.
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Second outing for BBC4's Modernism
BBC4 series Living with Modernismhas been commissioned for a second run.
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R4 books post-watershed Chatterley
Radio indie Catherine Bailey Productions has been commissioned to adapt DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Loverfor BBC Radio 4.
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C4 docu-drama to tell the story of Waco siege
Darlow Smithson will attempt to uncover what really happened during the infamous Waco siege in a big-budget feature for Channel 4 and the US Discovery Channel, its first commission since being acquired by IMG Media.