All Broadcasters articles – Page 523
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NewsBBC1 and UKTV call for emergency services
The BBC and UKTV are both delving behind the scenes of the emergency services with separate fly-on-the-wall documentaries following UK ambulance crews.
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NewsITV takes stake in Route 24
ITV has acquired a stake in a film and TV production company formed by one of the producers of hit BBC2 crime drama The Shadow Line.
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RatingsEurovision recovers from 2015 low
SATURDAY: The Eurovision Song Contest recovered from last year’s five-year low, but was still beaten by Britain’s Got Talent.
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NewsVice hires Louis Theroux development exec in recruitment spree
Louis Theroux development exec Dan Louw and Objective’s Debi Roach have joined Vice as the youth media brand beefs up its production team ahead of the launch of its linear channel.
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NewsC4 highlights "erosion" of key factual formats
Channel 4 has flagged a ratings “erosion” of flagship shows including One Born Every Minute and the Educating strand and is set to shift its factual output away from UK domestic issues.
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NewsRevealed: the tense talks behind charter renewal
A government U-turn on forcing BBC Worldwide to sell its 50% stake in UKTV is understood to have been a pivotal moment in tense white paper negotiations.
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NewsMedia Production Show programme unveiled
The full seminar programme for Media Production Show has been unveiled, with two days of keynote sessions and panel debates featuring creative and craft experts from the worlds of TV, film and commercials.
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NewsITV defends The Secret
ITV has defended its “proud history of factual dramas” after The Secret was criticised in parliament.
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NewsIn brief: Ealing Comedies & EastEnders' eco credit
Richard E. Grant explores Ealing Comedies for UKTV’s Gold, while EastEnders has won a sustainability award.
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NewsBBC and government at loggerheads over BBC1
The future of BBC1 will become a key battleground over the coming months as the government and corporation attempt to nail down the new charter.
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NewsHall: programme-makers understand distinctiveness
Director general Tony Hall has told Broadcast he is comfortable with proposals to tender out all BBC Studios shows, and offered a personal definition of what distinctive programming really means.
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NewsBBC Studios gets greenlight
The BBC Studios plan has been given the greenlight by the government, but the BBC has been told it must abolish all in-house television guarantees.
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NewsDiversity cemented in BBC charter
Enshrining a commitment to diversity in the BBC’s new charter for the first time is one of the white paper’s key recommendations.
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NewsDanny Cohen to run media investment firm
Former BBC director of television Danny Cohen has become president of Access Entertainment, an investment firm set up by Warner Music owner Len Blavatnik.
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NewsBBC 'has a duty' to offer iPlayer content to Sky Go
The BBC ‘has a duty’ to offer on-demand and live programming to a wider range of third party apps, most likely including Sky Go, according to the white paper.
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NewsiPlayer set to go Europe-wide
The government has directed the BBC to make iPlayer ‘portable’, meaning UK licence fee payers will be able to access the service when they travel across Europe.
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NewsKids TV handed contestable funding boost
The kids TV industry has been handed a major boost after the government revealed plans to launch a £60m pot of contestable funding.
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NewsWhittingdale plans accountable and distinctive BBC
Culture secretary John Whittingdale has set out plans for the BBC to become more accountable and distinctive as part of the white paper on the corporation’s new charter.
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RatingsITV's Killer Women beats Epic Journeys
WEDNESDAY: Piers Morgan’s investigation into Killer Women for ITV proved too much for BBC1’s latest wildlife documentary series Nature’s Epic Journey.
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NewsBBC white paper: in full
Click for the Department for Culture Media & Sport’s white paper - a BBC for the future: a broadcaster of distinction.