All Broadcast articles in 21 March 2013 – Page 6
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NewsIngenious poaches BBCW indie exec
Media investment firm Ingenious Media has poached key BBC Worldwide indie exec Simon Cox.
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NewsITV outlines 2013 plan as Crozier earnings hit £3.7m
The details of ITV’s transformation plan have been reiterated in its annual report, which also reveals chief executive Adam Crozier saw his pay package grow to £3.7m in 2012 following the business’ strong financial performance.
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RatingsMimicry’s not dead on C4
As a yoof, my only skill was replicating the sound of the family telephone. For weeks, the phone would ‘ring’ at deliciously inconvenient times. My stifled giggling eventually betrayed me and I was crushed in an avalanche of telling off. Still, mimicking isn’t dead, as Channel 4’s new comedy showed.
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RatingsQueen finds an audience
ITV doc pulls in more than 5 million on Sunday as Friday’s Comic Relief wins the week for BBC1
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RatingsSpurs score for ITV4
Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.
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RatingsFewer TVs but more viewing
The future: it’s confusion, wrapped in contradiction inside uncertainty. Wonderbra ad man Trevor Beattie says the 30-second ad is dead: long live the bite-sized, five-second ad, or, unhelpfully, the two-minute ad.
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NewsJeremy Darroch confirms Sky indie spending plans
BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch has confirmed Broadcast’s analysis of the broadcaster’s indie sector spending plans – and revealed that its content investment may not stop at £600m.
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NewsUniversal Music label launches channel
Universal Music-owned record label All Around The World is launching a music television channel Planet Pop, which will be run by former Channel 4 executive Simon Sadler.
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NewsITV2's Plebs gets online premiere
New sitcom Plebs is ITV’s first original commission to premiere online ahead of its linear broadcast.
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NewsSGO to showcase Mistika tools
NAB 2013: Grading system manufacturer SGO will launch Mistika Air in Las Vegas.
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NewsLeader to launch waveform monitor
NAB 2013: Leader Instruments will launch the LV5490 SD to 4K multi-standard multi-waveform monitor at NAB.
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NewsSwitchers on display at For-A
NAB 2013: For-A will introduce the HVS-XT100 and HVS-XT110 HD/SD portable switchers in Las Vegas.
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NewsHarris adds loudness tools to MSA range
NAB 2013: Harris Broadcast has added loudness monitoring and enhanced multi-image display capabilities to the company’s Videotek MSA Series of analysis products.