All articles by Chris Curtis – Page 86
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CommentBlog: All is fair in love and football
Setanta has been given a kicking from all quarters for keeping its England football coverage to itself. What do people expect it to do? asks Chris Curtis.
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News'Supporters want answers', Brown tells Setanta
Gordon Brown has waded into the debate over Setanta's coverage of yesterday's England World Cup qualifier, saying supporters would “want answers” about why they could not see the game on terrestrial TV.
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CommentBehind the business: Cody Hogarth
Endemol's New State has been rattling out AFP and product placement deals since it was created earlier this year.
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NewsChellomedia buys Spektrum
Extreme Sports Channel owner Chellomedia has bought documentary channel Spektrum from HBO Central Europe.
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NewsGriffiths named ITV finance chief
Former Emap group finance director Ian Griffiths has landed the same role at ITV.
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NewsC4 hails BB despite viewer dip
Channel 4 has heralded Big Brother 9 as a success, despite its final on Friday attracting fewer viewers than ever before.
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NewsSBC: Move BBC channel to Scotland
The Scottish Broadcasting Commission has called for one of the four major BBC channels to be moved to Scotland - but has stopped short of recommending a dedicated Scottish Six news bulletin.
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NewsBBC to relaunch Working Lunch
The BBC will relaunch Working Lunch next month, BBC business and economics unit editor Jeremy Hillman has revealed.
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Features
ITV1 gets vote of confidence in authored Clunes doc
Authored documentaries are all the rage with ITV's factual team, and given the performance of the recent Martin Clunes: a Man and his Dogs, it's easy to see why.
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NewsVirgin Radio gets Absolute rebrand
Virgin Radio has today kicked off its relaunch as the “cheeky and unapologetic” Absolute.
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NewsKirstie and Phil beat Ofcom rap
Channel 4's Location, Location, Location has been cleared of political bias by Ofcom after its presenters launched a campaign to get stamp duty reformed.
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NewsVMTV overhauls commissioning
Virgin Media Television has appointed a commissioning supremo and a scheduling counterpart to work across its channel portfolio.
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NewsPinewood to submit£3m planning application
Pinewood Shepperton will spend around£3m on the planning application for its ambitious Project Pinewood scheme, which it expects to submit before the end of the year.
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NewsSnowdon replaces Van Outen at Capital
Lisa Snowdon has stepped into Denise Van Outen's shoes as the permanent co-host of Johnny Vaughan's Capital 95.8 breakfast show.
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NewsRTL promises Airey ‘budget for success'
RTL chief executive Gerhard Zeiler has pledged to hand Dawn Airey the “programming budget she needs to be successful” after negotiating her early release from ITV gardening leave.
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VideoVideo: Peter Fincham
Peter Fincham speaks to Broadcastnow about how popular entertainment shows are at risk at the BBC and Channel 4, as well as at ITV, in an interview following his MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV festival.
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NewsFincham: Cotton would understand MacTaggart
ITV director of television Peter Fincham has invoked the spirit of Bill Cotton to help defend entertainment programming, after claiming in his MacTaggart lecture that the genre is under threat at all the major broadcasters.
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FeaturesBehind the business: William Van Rest
A revived ITV Play is attempting to shake off the PRTS scandal to boost traffic on itv.com.
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NewsAirey to join Five in October
Dawn Airey will begin her tenure as Five chief executive at the end of October, six months earlier than first anticipated.