All Broadcast articles in 6 March 2014 – Page 2
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News
David Cameron commits to TV tax break
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to continue to back high-end film and TV tax credit breaks, claiming that they are “working so well”.
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News
Licence fee cut will put spotlight on BBC4
Danny Cohen has said BBC4 will remain a TV channel in the short term – but warned that a tough licence fee settlement would put the factual channel next in the firing line.
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Cohen: dropping BBC3 will stop content cuts
The BBC faces making unilateral programming budget cuts of up to 25% if BBC3 is not taken off air, according to Danny Cohen.
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Video
VIDEO: W1A
Click for an interview with Hugh Bonneville, who plays Ian Fletcher in new BBC comedy W1A.
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News
Infographic: BBC3 budget breakdown
BBC3’s projected 2015/6 budget was £75m – which will now be radically reallocated.
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Cohen begins BBC3 briefings
Danny Cohen has begun briefing BBC3’s key suppliers and talent about plans to take the service online, amid fears that the axe is hanging over many of the channel’s big brands.
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Comment
Savage BBC3 cuts are hard to swallow
The channel’s move online decimates its original content budget, writes Chris Curtis
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Ratings
Family Guy on top for BBC3
Family Guy was the only show to top 500,000 viewers for BBC3 on Wednesday as Festivals, Sex and Suspicious Parents and Ja’mie Private School Girl were below slot average.
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Comment
This is a retreat, not a bold vision
The BBC has missed the chance to innovate, argues former iPlayer boss Anthony Rose
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Comment
Branding is key to BBC3's future
The shop window is shutting, but BBC3’s strong brand will help it survive, says Thinkbox chair Tess Alps
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News
Cohen: BBC3 strategy is a risk
BBC director of television Danny Cohen has admitted that moving BBC3 online is a major risk and that cost savings have forced the corporation to make the move ahead of schedule.
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Comment
BBC3: a catalyst for change?
This could be the moment when delivery of TV shows changes forever, says comedy writer Dave Cohen
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Comment
The BBC's online gamble
BBC3 might now be able to take more risks - and BBC4 has dodged a bullet, writes Pat Younge
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News
Tony Hall: email to staff
Click to read the director general’s email to staff about BBC3’s online move.
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News
BBC3 budget cut in half by move online
BBC3’s programme budget will be cut in half, and £30m of it will be redirected into BBC1 drama, when the youth channel moves online in autumn 2015.
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STV pre-tax profits rise 16%
STV’s adjusted pre-tax profits have risen 16% to £15.2m on the back of strong ad sales and continued production and digital growth.
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Critics
TV Critics: Outnumbered; Dancing in the Blitz; Line of Duty; First Dates
“I had a tear in my eye as I said goodbye to one of the funniest and most truthful of family sagas.”
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News
Clear Cut adds to capacity with Station Post buyout
Clear Cut Pictures has acquired central London facility Station Post.