All articles by Alex Farber – Page 211
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NewsKeeling: SeeSaw failed due to lack of awareness
Former SeeSaw platform controller John Keeling has blamed a lack of consumer awareness for the closure of the service as he starts a new role at media recruitment firm Grace Blue.
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NewsITN poised to replace Sky as C5 news provider
Channel 5 is set to appoint ITN to produce its news coverage having agreed a deal with Sky to terminate its existing contract early.
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NewsChannel 5+1 to launch next month
Channel 5 is preparing to launch a time-shifted channel across Freeview, Freesat and Sky from early December.
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NewsESPN tees up first golf tournament
ESPN is to televise golf in the UK for the first time having signed the rights to the Australian PGA Championship and Australian Open, as well as striking a deal to share the World Professional Darts Championships with the BBC.
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NewsBBC Radio ready to partner
Director general Mark Thompson has signalled that BBC Radio is to work more collaboratively with the commercial sector by opening up distribution of its content and via an Audiopedia audio archive.
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NewsGaunt and Whale warn BBC over local radio cuts
Radio industry veterans including Jon Gaunt and James Whale have warned the BBC that cuts to local speech radio will have a “damaging effect on society”.
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NewsAtlantic’s Taylor moves to OSF
Oxford Scientific Films has appointed James Taylor as its head of development to focus on the international expansion of its specialist factual content.
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NewsBoorman to hit the road again for C5
Charley Boorman is to undergo his latest adventure with Channel 5 in a series which will follow him on a 10,000 mile motorbike journey across Canada.
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NewsBragg to explore written word for R4
Radio 4 is to broadcast a series fronted by Melvyn Bragg that will explore the history of the written word.
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NewsThompson: we will listen to public on local radio
RADIO FESTIVAL: Mark Thompson has defended the cuts to BBC Local Radio – but said he will “listen carefully” to responses from listeners.
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NewsAbsolute hunting indie for Olympics radio series
Absolute Radio is kicking off the station’s first pitch for a series of multiplatform programmes dedicated to the “cultural zeitgeist” of the London Olympics.
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NewsUBC to rollout Radioplayer on connected TVs
UBC Media Group has been commissioned by Radioplayer to launch the audio streaming service on connected TV platforms such as Youview and via mobile apps.
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NewsSeeSaw closes as funding fails
Streaming TV service SeeSaw has been shut down after its backers failed to make the required investments to keep the video-on-demand site live.
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NewsBen Cooper named Radio 1 and 1Xtra boss
Ben Cooper has been named the new controller of BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, replacing Andy Parfitt.
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NewsSky Go passes 100m views
Sky Go has served more than 100 million content views since it launched in July, with the average number per month approaching that achieved by Channel 4’s 4oD.
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NewsSky's Darroch paid £2.7m as profits hit £1bn
Sky’s chief executive officer Jeremy Darroch is on track to take home a basic salary of £935,000 next year, having earned £2.7m including bonuses this year.
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NewsYouview marketing/PR team made redundant
Youview is to lose its PR and marketing team, including marketing director Tim Hunt, after opting to make the entire division redundant.
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NewsCiTV acquires teen music shows
CITV has acquired the first two series of Nickelodeon live-action kids’ shows Big Time Rush and Victorious.
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NewsLeopard lines up Matthew Bourne and da Vinci specials
Leopard Films is producing a Channel 4 doc about choreographer / director Matthew Bourne and has been drafted in to co-produce a Sky Arts live special on artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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NewsDigital radio tops 300m hours; analogue slides
RAJAR: Digital radio listening has broken the 300 million hours barrier for the first time – as tuning into analogue stations continues to slide.