All Broadcast articles in 9 June 2011 – Page 6
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NewsLinsey to police standards
The BBC has promoted controller of entertainment commissioning Mark Linsey to the Vision board and charged him with supervising editorial standards across all its channels.
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Zig Zag in Japan deal
Zig Zag Productions has signed agreements to import and export Japanese formats.
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NewsAirey ‘scouring the globe’ for RTL acquisitions
Former Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey is understood to have been handed a wide-ranging acquisitions remit at European broadcasting giant RTL.
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NewsJunior Doctors exec joins Mentorn
The executive producer of BBC3’s Junior Doctors and Underage And Pregnant has joined Mentorn Media to head up its fact ent and features department.
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NewsPulse hires Model Agency exec
Pulse Films has hired the executive producer of Channel 4’s The Model Agency to the newly created role of head of TV.
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NewsC4 helps hoarders face their addiction
Channel 4 has ordered a factual series from Twenty Twenty that will attempt to help people who cannot help hoarding bric-a-brac.
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NewsMulhern to front ITV1 quiz pilot
Britain’s Got More Talent host Stephen Mulhern is to front a new ITV1 gameshow pilot made by the team behind The Chase.
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NewsEleventh Hour hires Cuddy
Eleventh Hour Films, the new venture set up by Jill Green, has hired Paula Cuddy as drama development executive.
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NewsChapman to unify BBC music offering
The BBC has promoted Ben Chapman to the newly created post of online head of popular music to drive a single multiplatform strategy across Radio 1, Radio 2, 1Xtra and 6 Music.
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NewsDailymotion plans first UK commission
Video sharing site Dailymotion hopes to commission original UK content following strategic investment by Orange and the appointment of the site’s first head of international content.
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NewsHodgson to leave BBC for Ofcom
Patricia Hodgson is leaving the BBC Trust to take up a new role at Ofcom, having been passed over for the top job at the corporation.
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NewsStars pay tribute to Forsdick
TV presenters including Ant and Dec, Richard Bacon and Denise van Outen have joined industry members to pay tribute to Gallowgate boss Ed Forsdick, who died suddenly on Monday.
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NewsBoomerang buys OSF for £500k
Media group Boomerang Plus has acquired Oxford Scientific Films, the indie behind Meerkat Manor.
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NewsOfcom launches TV ad review
Ofcom has today formally kicked off its review into how TV advertising deals are agreed.
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NewsOur War to air on BBC1
DOC/FEST: BBC1 is to broadcast Our War, the BBC3 doc about young soldiers in Afghanistan, following its critical and ratings success.
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CommentTelevision patience
As 2,000 eager delegates gather at Sheffield Doc/Fest, award-winning producer/director David Pearson recounts the experience of making the heart warming story of a new ‘buoy band’ with a collective age of 560, and explains why real ob docs deliver stories unlike anything else.
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NewsSky Anywhere renamed Sky Go
Sky’s forthcoming Anywhere service, which will give its 10m subscribers free access to Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV, has been renamed Sky Go and will launch next month.
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NewsGreenlight round-up: Channel 4 order doc fest
Factual programmes are at the centre on Greenlight this week, with Channel 4 and More 4 announcing new documentaries.
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NewsBBC News outlines DQF cuts
BBC News staff have been told of widespread cuts to correspondent and editor positions, as it seeks to save 20% from its budget while incorporating journalists from the World Service.
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NewsParent company pulls plug on Pepper Post
Pepper Post has ceased trading after its parent company decided to pull out of the post production sector.