All Broadcast articles in 23 July 1999 – Page 3
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BBC GOES TO WARR
BBC Production has appointed its first controller of talent management, responsible for managing relationships with on-screen and on-air talent. Rob Warr, currently channel editor for UK Arena, will take up the
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JAVELIN CHAMPION THROWS WRIT AT THE BBC
Former javelin champion Fatima Whitbread is suing the BBC over a joke on the BBC 1 quiz show They Think It's All Over. Whitbread is understood to be seeking more than
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DAVIES VEHICLE BEING DRIVEN BY LUCKY DOG
Chrysalis Visual Entertainment-owned Lucky Dog has gone into pre-production with A Many Splintered Thing, an 8 x 30-minute comedy drama series starring Alan Davies. Costing£2 million, the series will be
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Talk set for regional growth with bid for new licenses
Talk Radio has unveiled details of its£500,000 drive into regional radio with bids for three regional licences, beginning with a mixed speech and music format for south Wales, writes John
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SECOND INITIATIVE FROM BIG LITTLE PICTURES JOINT DEAL
HTV and Welsh media agency Sgrin have launched the second Big Little Pictures joint production initiative. The scheme - to produce 2 x 24-minute short films for TV and cinema -
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GAINSBOURG PLAY WILL STAR REAL-LIFE LOVER BIRKIN
Jane Birkin is to star in a BBC Radio 4 play about her life with lover Serge Gainsbourg, produced by independent Catherine Bailey Productions.Birkin and Gainsbourg gained notoriety when they recorded
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NEW PROMAX PRESIDENT BRAILSFORD FORESEES GROWTH
International promotion and marketing association Promax has named Glynn Brailsford (right) as its new president and CEO. Brailsford - formerly controller of creative services at Channel 5 in the UK -
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Static has extended its relationship with FilmFour, whose channel branding it created last year, by crafting the sting that will precede each film screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Static has extended its relationship with FilmFour, whose channel branding it created last year, by crafting the sting that will precede each film screened at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, which
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BRAY STUDIOS SAVED FROM CLOSURE
Bray Studios in Slough, where Hammer House of Horror, Poirot and Murder Most Horrid were filmed, has been saved from closure for the next 15 years, writes Ashley Davies. Peter Gray,
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Life of Brian
Film-maker Brian Hill has a knack for being ahead of his time. He made a docu-soap in 1993 and now experiments with poetry. Wale Azeez reports.
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OFF THE RECORD - We interrupt this broadcast ..
Those of us who have missed having our favourite films interrupted by a news programme since the demise of News at Ten need only retune to BBC 1. Take Saturday, for
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TORY SEEKS TO LOOSEN RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING RULES
Restrictions on religious broadcasting could be relaxed after MPs of all parties last week voted by 138 to nine to support a Ten-Minute Rule Bill that claimed the present law was
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NTL picks up two BT cable franchises
NTL has taken control of another two cable TV franchises, including the influential Westminster franchise, following the conclusion of a deal with BT, writes Alice Macandrew.The cable TV company announced that
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... WHILE ZULUETA IS NAMED NEW MD OF IBERIAN BUSINESS
Pearson Television has appointed Eduardo Zulueta as the managing director of its business in the Iberian peninsula. Zulueta moves from Via Digital, the Spanish satellite television platform, where he had been
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FOX TO BUY UP REST OF TVNZ NATURAL HISTORY UNIT
Twentieth Century Fox has finalised the deal to secure complete ownership of Television New Zealand's Natural History Unit. Fox has held 80 per cent of the Natural History Unit since 1998,
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YTV/TYNE TEES BUYS DISCONTINUED LIGHTWORKS EDITORS
Yorkshire-Tyne Tees TV is buying four Lightworks VIP editing sytems, despite the fact that Tektronix is discontinuing the whole Lightworks product range. YTT head of engineering operations John Nichol said: 'We've
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Young rebuffs single-regulator call
BBC vice-chairman Baroness Young has rejected calls for a single regulator for BBC and commercial radio, claiming the board of governors was a 'rigorous' regulator of the corporation's radio output.Young said
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OFF THE RECORD - We'll call you
Never let it be said that Sir Christopher 'not very' Bland doesn't look after his friends. No, not Greg Dyke, silly, but the outgoing DG Sir John Birt. OTR understands that
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OWEN'S TIPS SPEARHEAD GET YOUR KIT ON CAMPAIGN
Michael Owen is to kick off the BBC's Get Your Kit On campaign with a new BBC 2 programme called Michael Owen's Soccer Skills. Beginning on 10 September, the six-part series
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OPINION - Will Prebble play his cards right?
Now you see him, now you don't. Stephen Grabiner, the marketing maestro Michael Green lured to spearhead his digital dream, has gone to pastures new. His successor, Stuart Prebble, was appointed