All Broadcast articles in 7 October 2011 – Page 3
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News
BBC safeguards news output
Underlying investment in news output will increase under the DQF proposals as the BBC makes providing ‘the best journalism is the world’ its first editorial priority.
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Comment
Off Cuts: Mipcom special
Dropping by at Mipcom was none other than Steve van Zandt, E-Street band guitarist and Silvio from The Sopranos, promoting his role in another mob drama, Lilyhammer.
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BBC1 to boost drama and comedy amid cuts
BBC1 has emerged relatively unscathed from dramatic cuts to the corporation’s services and will be a major beneficiary of higher than needed savings from across the corporation.
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Comment
Comedy overload is a bit of a joke
‘Being funny’ is clogging up the schedules, but money always talks, says Steven D Wright.
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Comment
There’s No Taste Like Home / Merlin / All Roads Lead Home
Icon’s Tom Kelpie and Holler’s Chris Lane on home cooking, wizardry and celeb walks.
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News
DQF: winners and losers
With the BBC outlining where it will find 20% savings, where will the cuts bite deepest? And which areas have escaped relatively unscathed?
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Comment
Freelancers: go on a date to forge a lasting relationship
Indie producers need to show freelancers the personal touch, says Susie Worster.
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Comment
No revolution without high-speed networks
Sohonet welcomes the Digital Production Partnership’s ‘Reluctant Revolution’ report, which highlights the issues holding back the large-scale introduction of tapeless workflow (‘Combining to meet the digital challenge’, Broadcast 30.9.11).
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Comment
Your community needs you
Should TV do more to give communities a voice? asks Caroline Diehl.
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News
UK nations to benefit from investment and HD
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will benefit from millions of pounds of commissions and new HD channels, as a result of the Delivering Quality First proposals.
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News
BBC to simplify broadcast operations
The BBC has pledged to make £53m of technology-related savings by the end of 2017 as part of the wider cost-cutting measures announced today.
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News
Unions: "DQF will destroy the BBC"
Unions have accused Mark Thompson of “destroying” the BBC and “diluting” its programmes through the DQF proposals.
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News
BBC Radio cuts content spend, slashes Asian Network spend 34%
The BBC is to cut significant costs across its entire radio output by dropping the level of commissioned hours, removing management layers, encouraging closer cross-station collaboration and reducing the Asian Network’s £12m budget by 34%.
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News
BBC4 cuts drama, keeps comedy
BBC4’s comedy investment is to be ringfenced despite a scaling back of drama on the channel under today’s proposals.
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BBC2 to swap daytime for current affairs and repeats
BBC2 will launch a lunchtime international current affairs programme, but the rest of its daytime output will be repeat programming, as a result of cost-cutting proposals made in Delivering Quality First.
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BBC3 braced for Salford move and drama cuts
BBC3 will be moved to Salford by 2016 and around a third of the station’s drama budget will be transferred to BBC1.
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Features
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
Update the opening titles to give the show a more contemporary look
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Features
Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Design and create a graphics package for the series, documenting Joanna Lumley’s exploration of Greece