All articles by Alex Farber – Page 163
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NewsC4 hires Undercover Boss USA exec
Channel 4 has bolstered its features team with the appointment of former Undercover Boss USA exec producer Stef Wagstaffe.
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RatingsI Love My Country fails to unite viewers
BBC1’s sporting quiz show I Love My Country failed to overcome Your Face Sounds Familiar on Saturday evening as the ITV1 gameshow ended with its second highest outing.
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NewsImpossible Pictures splits
Jonathan Drake has completed a management buy-out of Impossible Pictures’ factual division.
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NewsNBCU hires Fever development exec
NBC Universal International has hired Fever Media’s Jack Burgess as head of development for its non-scripted programming.
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RatingsCouncil House doc moves 2m into C4
Channel 4’s new series How To Get a Council House moved in to the schedule with an audience of over 2m on Thursday.
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NewsChildren’s pilot uses Kickstarter funding
Bafta-nominated director Ed Kellie has raised £16,000 via crowd-funding site Kickstarter to create a children’s animation pilot narrated by Chris Packham.
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NewsDigital radio listening breaks 50% barrier
Rajar: The last three months have seen more than half of the UK’s adult population listen to radio via digital platforms for the first time, as 28m tuned in.
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NewsBT Sport to ramp up web presence after launch
BT Sport’s website will launch with a simple proposition before being ramped up to include innovative features such as multicamera streaming of events.
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NewsC4 ties in digital developers
Channel 4 has guaranteed digital agencies Numiko and Rckt £100,000 of business each in the next 12 months to improve its online programme support.
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NewsO'Connell adds 1.5m to Absolute ahead of sale
Rajar: Every national commercial radio breakfast show made gains over the past three months, with Absolute’s Christian O’Connell Show breaking 1.5m listeners for the first time.
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NewsStewart Purvis joins C4 board
Former ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis has been appointed to the Channel 4 board as part of a shake-up following the departure of Tony Hall to the BBC.
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RatingsNew Tricks stays strong
The new series of New Tricks arrested all-comers on Tuesday night, performing in line with last year’s opener.
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NewsLittleloud shuts down after 13 years
Littleloud, the digital agency behind C4 Education projects including mobile game Sweatshop, has shut down.
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NewsSteve Gowans joins North One
Steve Gowans is to join North One Productions as managing director, five months after leaving Channel 5.
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NewsBauer Media buys Absolute Radio
Bauer Media has bought Absolute Radio in a deal understood to be worth more than £20m.
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NewsC4 commits to Kavos after casting controversy
Channel 4’s teen Brits abroad doc What Happens In Kavos is to return for a second series despite producers Dragonfly being reprimanded over “deeply inappropriate” casting references.
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NewsBig dog Tim Westwood bows out of Radio 1
Hip hop DJ Tim Westwood is leaving Radio 1 after 20 years as part of a schedule shake-up.
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NewsSky profits bolstered by Now TV
Sky has reported operating profits of £1.3bn for the last 12 months, helped by 50,000 day-pass sales of its fledgling IPTV service Now TV.
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NewsiPlayer buffers with summer slump
BBC iPlayer requests fell to their lowest level since the start of the year in June, as the VoD service generated record traffic from mobile and tablet devices.
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RatingsSky1's The Cafe reopens with smaller audience
The return of Who Do You Think You Are? located 5m viewers for BBC1 on Wednesday as Sky1’s The Cafe reopened with an audience half the size of its series one debut.