All Broadcasters articles – Page 1119
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NewsMessenger quits Live from Studio Five
Five has lined up guest hosts to replace Melinda Messenger on its underperforming news magazine show Live From Studio Five.
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NewsC4 facing £1m libel action
A martial arts expert from Barnstaple who featured in a Channel 4 documentary following the family of Michael Jackson as they planned a move to Devon has begun libel action against the broadcaster.
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NewsC4 orders Haiti doc
Pioneer Productions is making a fast-turnaround doc for Channel 4 on the scientific causes of the Haiti earthquake.
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NewsCost cutting 'not priority' for Crozier
ITV chairman Archie Norman has declared that cost cutting will not be a priority for new chief executive Adam Crozier, adding that some parts of the business will need to actually need to be “reinvested in”.
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NewsNorman: New media world has left ITV behind
ITV chairman Archie Norman has outlined the “enormous challenges” facing incoming chief executive Adam Crozier, and tasked him with making a “substantial transformational change” to its business model.
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NewsCrozier's pay will not be in "the Tony Ball league"
ITV is yet to finalise Adam Crozier’s complete pay package – but chairman Archie Norman has revealed it will not be “in the Tony Ball league”.
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NewsBBC challenged to improve commissioning of live events
The government’s spending watchdog has tasked the BBC with improving the commissioning of live events such as the Olympics and Wimbledon to ensure value for money.
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NewsITV appoints Adam Crozier chief executive
ITV has appointed Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier as its new chief executive.
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NewsITV1 and Twofour win top Broadcast awards
ITV1 was last night named Channel of the Year at the Broadcast Awards, where it also scored success with ratings juggernauts The X Factor and Coronation Street.
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NewsThorogood quits BBC for Scripps’ Food Network
Nick Thorogood is to step down from his senior role at the BBC Commercial Agency to oversee the rollout of the Food Network across Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Scripps Networks Interactive.
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NewsBruce is ‘art detective’ in primetime BBC1 show
Fiona Bruce is to bring art history to primetime audiences in a new detective-style series for BBC1.
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NewsSecond generation Going Back to their roots on C4
Channel 4 is to take three second-generation immigrant families back to their forefathers’ homelands to see if life is better there than in recession-hit Britain.
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NewsHD customers boost profits at BSkyB
Nearly half a million customers signed up to BSkyB’s high-definition TV package in the last three months of 2009 following a pre-Christmas marketing push.
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NewsSetback for Salford as CBeebies chief quits
BBC Children’s move to Salford suffered a major setback yesterday after CBeebies controller Michael Carrington quit the corporation.
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NewsCITV’s award-winning Bookaboo faces axe over funding gap
Broadcast- and Bafta-winning CITV series Bookaboo’s future is in the balance as it desperately goes on the hunt for a deficit funding partner.
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NewsBetty secures C4 order for glitzy wedding show
Country House Rescue indie Betty has won an order for a Channel 4 format that will bring Las Vegas-style weddings to the UK.
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NewsFive aims for ‘TFI’ feel with Lee Collins show
Five is aiming to recapture the atmosphere and glamour of TFI Friday when it launches Justin Lee Collins’ new chat show in March.
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NewsBBC2 reunites Mel and Sue for British baking competition
Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc are to re-team for their first series in more than a decade - a BBC2 quest to find the UK’s best amateur bakers.
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NewsYounge peps up BBC production morale
The BBC’s new production chief Pat Younge has issued a rallying cry to staff, calling on them to shout about their hits like an indie.
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NewsSky kicks off 3D football trial in pubs ahead of weekly launch
Sky will screen its first live 3D football match in nine pubs this weekend ahead of the launch of a game-a-week service from April.