All Broadcast articles in 24 November 2000 – Page 2
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Kirch may fight EC
German media group Kirch is examining whether it can challenge rules which force it to sell the rights it holds to the football World Cup 2002 to a BBC/ITV coalition, writes Simon Ellery.
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TX - Down Mexico way
The success historian/presenter Michael Wood and Maya Vision International had with their series In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great made the programme a hard act to follow. But, after six
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Emap and MTV dispute music share
EMAP is damaging the market share of its own music video channel, The Box, by launching back-to-back music video channels such as QTV and Kiss, according to research obtained by Broadcast, writes Simon Ellery.
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RACING DECISION POSTPONED
The Racecourse Association has postponed for another week its decision on whether to award racecourses' terrestrial and interactive media rights to Go Racing - the Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure
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Sky struck secret On Digital share deal
BSkyB negotiated a deal to buy rights to shares in a floated On Digital as compensation for pulling out of the British Digital Broadcasting consortium in 1997, writes Simon Ellery.
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SPORTSWORLD IN MULTILMILLION SURF DEAL
Sportsworld Media Group has pledged $12.75m (£9m) to the Association of Surf Professionals (ASP) in return for the media and marketing rights to its events. The company plans to relaunch professional
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Teddington Crew member killed
Manchester police have launched a murder inquiry following the death last week of Brian Bassett, a scenic operative on This Is Your Life, writes Barbara Marshall.
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DYKE TO BE IN CONVERSATION AT RADIO FESTIVAL
BBC director general Greg Dyke is tipped to be speaking at the Radio Festival next year. He is expected to take part in the 'in conversation with' session, in which, this
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UK distribution faces major upheaval as ITV consolidates
The UK distribution industry is facing the prospect of scores of job cuts as the ITV companies consolidate, with more than 30 jobs expected to be axed in the Granada Media
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Pitt in talks to end Real Life connections
Real Life Productions' director of programmes Ruth Pitt is negotiating ways to leave the company she founded in 1988 as part of a legal process expected to be finalised next spring, writes Penny Hughes.
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Journalists urge code take-up
The new code of practice for staff working in dangerous countries, jointly agreed by APTN, CNN, Reuters, the BBC and ITN, will be touted on the global stage this week by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), writes Colin Robertson.
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CENSUS - Who's working the system
The television and radio industries have never been quantified before. But the Audio Visual Industries Training Group has done the first ever census of TV and radio staff. The survey was taken in May and shows the industry is male-dominated, with many min
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Horrocks calls for election poll pool
UK broadcasters should pool exit poll operations for the next general election to help avoid the fiasco which has overshadowed the current US presidential election, according to BBC head of current
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MACINTYRE CALLED AS WITNESS
BBC journalist Donal MacIntyre is due to give evidence at an ongoing trial at Blackfriars Crown Court of two alleged football hooligans. The pair were accused in BBC history and documentaries'
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Film outfit buys quarter stake in Gub Neal indie
Box TV, the drama indie set up by former Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal, has received a 'several million pound' investment from an international film company on the prowl
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - IDN BUYS SOHONET
Inter Digital Networks (IDN) has bought Sohonet, the internet service provider set up by a group of London post-production companies four years ago. IDN chief executive John Wheeler said: 'The union
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BROADBAND SHORTFALL
The government has failed to find buyers for the majority of the 28GHz broadband radio licences with only 16 out of 42 being sold. The auction raised£38.2m, significantly short of
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SKY SPORTS SIGNS BRITISH SPEEDWAY RIGHTS
Sky Sports has signed a five-year deal for the rights to all key British professional speedway events, totalling 30 meetings a season. Sky Sports head of commercial development Roger Moody has
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ON THE BOX - Stars for a night
Development executive BBC lifestyle and features, Birmingham Nick Thorogood welcomes new talent - good or bad - but won't be missing Morse.
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TRADE TALK - Big Mother
Ruth Wrigley, executive producer of Big Brother, has reaped her reward from its success and is now Endemol's UK controller of entertainment.