All articles by Alex Farber – Page 203
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TV Guide adds mobile remote control
EPG mobile app TV Guide has increased its functionality, allowing Samsung connected TV and Virgin Media Tivo viewers to use their mobiles to change channels.
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BBC and Sky debate future of classical music TV
The future of classical music on TV will come under the spotlight as part of a two day conference organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians.
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NewsAbsolute Radio kicks off Twitter campaign
Absolute Radio has become the first radio broadcaster to advertise using Twitter’s promoted trend spot.
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Rastamouse back for second series
A second series of pre-school stop-motion series Rastamouse has entered production following a recommisison from CBeebies.
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NewsUKTI looks for indie input into three-year plan
UK Trade & Investment is embarking on a tour of UK indies, film-makers and games developers as it pulls together a fresh three-year plan to ensure it is spending intelligently.
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NewsGood Food to follow hunt for Roux scholar
Good Food is to revisit the Roux family for a one-off doc tracking its hunt for a new culinary scholar.
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NewsDiscovery orders history triple
Chinook helicopters, World War II artefacts and the Titanic are to be investigated by Discovery in three historical orders for the channel.
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NewsUKTV seeks fresh comedy Gold
UKTV’s Gold is to inject millions into original content for the first time as it adds a raft of commissions to its “crown jewels” archive schedule.
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NewsBBC warns over spikes in Olympic web use
The BBC has provided ISPs and mobile operators with a “heat map”, which will alert them to an anticipated huge spike in traffic around “four or five” London 2012 Olympics events.
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NewsUKIE lobbies for relaxation of laws around crowd funding
The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment (UKIE) is planning to lobby the government to relax laws surrounding crowd funding, making it potentially easier for indies to finance projects.
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NewsEmbarrassing apps push self-diagnosis
The second series of Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic will be supported by a set of groundbreaking mobile apps that draw on audio watermarking.
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NewsDarlow to make Concordia film
Darlow Smithson Productions is producing a new documentary about the Costa Concordia disaster for Discovery Networks International.
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NewsSteps returning to Sky Living
Reformed pop group Steps are to feature in a second series for Sky Living, tracking their 22-date comeback tour around the UK.
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NewsZig Zag to produce Whitney Houston doc
The downward spiral of US singer Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday, will be chronicled via a fast turnaround doc from Zig Zag Productions and US magazine The National Enquirer.
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Ofcom upholds Atvod's Viacom ruling
Ofcom has upheld a decision from VoD regulator Atvod that Viacom is responsible for the editorial of its catch-up services on Virgin Media.
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NewsRIG plans online radio sales hub
Industry trade body Radio Independents Group is to announce a proposal to launch an online content sales hub for programmes.
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NewsRadio 4 hunts 'New Elizabethans'
BBC Radio 4 is kicking off a hunt to find the 60 public figures who have had the greatest impact on life in the UK during the Queen’s reign to mark the Diamond Jubilee and create “a radio portrait of our age”.
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NewsTwenty Twenty recruited for BBC1 conscripts drama
The final intake of National Service men is to be dramatised by Twenty Twenty in a new commission for BBC1 Daytime.
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NewsSky boosts Isle of Wight coverage
Sky is upping its live coverage of this year’s Isle of Wight Festival to 18 hours - including broadcasts in 3D.
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NewsMTV upgrades to HD
MTV UK is to launch a high definition channel and replace existing MTVNHD with MTV Live.