All BBC articles – Page 619
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NewsScale of radio WoCC disappoints indies
Radio indies have predicted the BBC’s launch of a radio Window of Creative Competition could boost revenues by up to £20m - but complained that the BBC Trust’s decision does not go far enough.
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NewsBBCW scores digital first in China
BBC Worldwide has secured its first ever digital deal in China that will see drama, children’s and educational programme licensed over two years.
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NewsBBC to launch WoCC for radio indies
Indies will be able to pitch for twice as many hours of BBC radio programming following a review by the BBC Trust.
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NewsBBC4 picks up AMC drama Rubicon
BBC has picked up the UK rights to acclaimed US conspiracy thriller Rubicon, which airs alongside Mad Men on the AMC cable network.
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NewsGallery: BBC4 autumn 2010
Full rundown of the drama, comedy, documentaries and US series coming to BBC4 this autumn.
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NewsGrade to front BBC series
Michael Grade is making a return to the BBC to tell the story of a lost world of dancers, singers and comics who performed in variety shows up and down the land.
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NewsBBC4 to screen Anna Nicole opera
An opera based on the life of Playboy pin-up Anna Nicole Smith is to be broadcast on BBC4, as part of an autumn line-up that also includes a new Douglas Adams adaptation and a stage production of Macbeth with Patrick Stewart.
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NewsPublisher attacks BBC's legal moves over The Stig
The publisher embroiled in a legal battle with the BBC over a memoir by Top Gear’s The Stig has attacked the corporation for using licence fee cash on legal moves to block the book.
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NewsBBC executive resigns over relocation
The BBC HR boss behind convincing staff to make the move north has resigned - because he does not want to relocate.
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NewsBid to list every BBC show ever broadcast
Researchers are poring over thousands of back copies of the Radio Times to put together a list of every BBC programme ever broadcast.
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News'Too white' BBC seeks sitcom ideas
The BBC is seen as “too white and middle class” and is aiming to make more multicultural sitcoms, it has announced.
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NewsWorld Cup boosts TV watching time
Wall to wall coverage of the World Cup boosted the number of hours people spent watching television in the first six months of this year, according to research published today.
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NewsBBC bid to put brakes on The Stig's Top Gear book
The BBC is fighting to keep Top Gear’s mystery driver The Stig from revealing his identity, it has emerged.
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NewsThompson: pensions strike will be no help
The BBC and unions remain at loggerheads over the broadcaster’s proposed pension cuts, as director general Mark Thompson warned staff this week that industrial action will have no effect.
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NewsMale TV experts outnumber women four to one, study shows
City University has applied for a grant to study the representation of women in the media after an initial study into news programmes found that male experts outnumbered women by four to one.
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NewsBBC accused of bias over Panorama report on raid
The BBC is facing a protest this weekend following its Panorama documentary on the Israeli raid on a Palestinian aid flotilla, with complaints beginning to flood in after a campaign by lobby groups.
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NewsAsian Network orders new docs
Threatened radio station BBC Asian Network has unveiled a series of 15 commissions which will run until April, kicking off with a special investigation into the Pakistan flooding disaster.
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NewsPrince teams with Goldie for BBC talent show
Prince Harry is teaming up with drum’n’bass star Goldie to stage a gig at Buckingham Palace.
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NewsBBC apologises over weatherman's rude gesture
The BBC has been forced to apologise after one of its weathermen was caught making a rude gesture live on air.
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NewsRoyal Institution Christmas lectures return to BBC
The Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures are to return to the BBC after a decade on commercial channels, it was announced today.