All Broadcast articles in 30 June 2006 – Page 2
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NewsGovt claims new TV Without Frontiers could damage industry
New broadcasting minister Shaun Woodward has hit out at the European Commission claiming that current proposals to update the TV Without Frontiers Directive (TVWF) could do 'huge damage' to broadcasting in the UK.
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NewsRamsay's F Word cooks up 4.3m
Channel 4 took full advantage of a break in the World Cup as Gordon Ramsay's F Wordgrabbed 4.3 million (21%), helping the broadcaster to record its second highest all-hours share of the year so far.
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NewsUniversal TV
Universal Music has launched its own TV production company. Globe Productions will operate as a standalone division focused on creating new TV formats and developing on-screen platforms for its roster of artists, who include Scissor Sisters and Jamie Cullum. Ideas will be developed in-house but the company is open to ...
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Parfitt: teen tsar
Controller of BBC Radio 1 Andy Parfitt has been handed the role of 'teen tsar', charged with reaching out to 12 to 16-year-olds. Parfitt, who looked into how the BBC serves children and teens for the Creative Futures review earlier this year, will head a small team briefed to work ...
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Mansfield's million
GCap Media's former chief executive David Mansfield walked off with a£1.13m payoff after resigning last September, according to the radio group's annual report published this week. The sum was paid by the UK 's biggest radio group by way of compensation to Mansfield who resigned not long after the merger ...
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Pepper shows Scars for Kudos
Pepper has completed the post on Scars, a new one-off docu-drama from Kudos, directed by Leo Regan. Filmed in the style of a feature-length interview, it stars Jason Isaacs as Mark, a man who struggles to come to terms with the consequences of his violent ...
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Nick Knowles in jail
The BBC is to run a week of live programming from behind the bars of one of the UK's prisons in a daytime series fronted by Nick Knowles and Nadia Sawalha. Behind Bars, which is produced by CityHospitalmaker Topical Television, ...
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ITV wins Uefa rights
ITV has secured the UK broadcast rights for the final stages of the Uefa Cup in a deal understood to be worth over£20m. Covering the 2006-7 to 2008-9 seasons, the agreement will give ITV exclusive broadcast rights for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals of the tournament. ITV, which fought off ...
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ITV tests HD
ITV has installed a trial HD playout facility at its Southern Transmission Centre. The facility, installed by system integration specialist Broadcast Network, was built to coincide with ITV's HD coverage of the World Cup in Germany. The contract included designing, building and commissioning a new HD playout channel to be ...
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Setanta wrestles PGA Tour golf from Sky
Setanta Sports has nabbed exclusive rights to the PGA Tour from Sky, starting from this January and plans to launch a dedicated golf channel. The Irish sports group, which recently picked up two live Premier League rights packages, has brokered a six-year deal to air the PGA Tour competition in ...
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Garcia takes reins
Branding consultancy Turquoise has promoted associate director Linda Garcia to managing director. Garcia takes over from Sharon Wheeler, who will oversee the business and strategic development of Turquoise in the UK and Middle East, following the launch of Turquoise Dubai. Turquoise's recent projects include rebranding Irish broadcaster TV3.
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UKTV Food searches for local food heroes
UKTV Food is launching a search for Britain's Local Food Hero 2006 with the help of celebrity chef Gary Rhodes and former politician Edwina Currie.
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Five swaps state and public school students
Five has greenlit a observational documentary series from Granada Factual which follows three pupils from a public school and three from an inner-city comprehensive as they complete a two week exchange.
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Sky HD encoders
BSkyB has invested in seven Snell & Wilcox Memphis encoders to master content for its new HD services. The systems will be used alongside Omneon servers to offer the broadcaster increased interoperability for playout and archiving applications.
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Young to host Desert Island Discs
Five news presenter Kirsty Young has been named as the new host for BBC Radio 4's long-running series DesertIsland Discs. Young, who is currently on maternity leave from her role anchoring Five News, will take over the show at the ...
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Condor Post closes doors and lays off half its staff
Soho-based broadcast and commercials facility Condor Post Production has shut down because of financial problems.
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Prime targets Clear for takeover
Indian media giant Prime Focus has hit the acquisition trail again buying commercials and graphic design house Clear Post Production through its newly acquired subsidiary VTR plc.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Chiara Cipriani
The director of television at The Poker Channel does a lot with very little and is looking for indies that can think commercially as well as creatively and drive more mainstream awareness
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CBS chief to keynote at RTS conference
Les Moonves, CBS's president and chief executive, is to give the keynote speech at this year's RTS London conference. Moonves has spearheaded a revival in CBS's fortunes with shows such as Survivor, Cold Case and the CSIbrand and will give ...
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Turner buys Canadian toon Storm Hawks
Turner Broadcasting has acquired new comedy action-adventure series Storm Hawksfrom Canadian animation house Nerd Corp Entertainment. The 52 x 30-minute series is due to air next year on Cartoon Network in the UK, France and the US.