All articles by Chris Curtis – Page 94
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NewsKatz named Box TV boss
Emap and Channel 4 music TV venture Box Television has appointed Gidon Katz as its managing director.
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NewsCarnival parent looks for buyer
Hotel Babylon producer Carnival Film & Television is up for sale.
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NewsPSB legislation may be accelerated
Channel 4 boss Andy Duncan has called for the PSB debate to be accelerated and culture secretary James Purnell seems to agree, suggesting that planned legislation will be brought forward.
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NewsPurnell: BBC licence fee could be shared
The prospect of the next BBC licence fee being shared with other broadcasters has edged closer after culture secretary James Purnell said that public sector broadcasting needed to change radically to survive after switchover.
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NewsHell's Kitchen escapes Ofcom rap
Ofcom has cleared Hell's Kitchen of breaking its broadcasting code despite receiving almost 200 complaints about the ITV1 show in September.
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NewsBBC boosts Salford staff numbers
The BBC is to move 10% more posts to Salford than originally planned, boosting the total of relocations from under 1500 to more than 1620.
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NewsRDF stabilises after share tumble
RDF Media Group's share price seems to have bottomed out after a torrid run that has seen it lose more than 11% of its value over the last week.
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NewsCarter gets Downing St role
Former Ofcom chief executive Stephen Carter has been appointed to the new post of chief of strategy and principal advisor to the Prime Minister
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CommentDrama the key to ITV1 overhaul
Forget the return of News at Ten - Echo Beach, Honest and The Palace will be the real benchmark for ITV1's new schedule, writes Chris Curtis.
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NewsBoaden: integrity crucial to regain trust
BBC News director Helen Boaden has claimed “good old-fashioned integrity” will be the key to the corporation reviving viewers' “battered” trust in the BBC in 2008.
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NewsPSB review to kick start Ofcom's year
Ofcom will kick off a busy 2008 with phase one of its crucial public service broadcasting (PSB) review, before publishing its findings on participation TV and competition in the pay TV market.
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Discovery to join Sky's Picnic
Sky has signed Discovery Networks UK as a programming partner for its proposed pay DTT service, Picnic.
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NewsBroadcast parent sold to Apax/GMG
Emap Communications, the company that publishes Broadcast, is to be bought by venture capitalist Apax Partners and Guardian Media Group for£1.2bn.
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NewsSky boosts Anytime service
Sky has added movies from Paramount and Warner Bros to its on demand Anytime on PC service, making it the first online download service to offer films from all six major US studios.
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NewsITV stake in SMG is slashed
ITV’s refusal to take up its option on SMG’s recent rights issue has cut its shareholding in the Scottish broadcaster from 16.7% to 5.57%.
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NewsEckoh to fight C4 case
You Say, We Pay phone line operator Eckoh has come out fighting after Channel 4 announced plans to take legal action against it.
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NewsC4 launches legal action against Eckoh
Channel 4 is taking legal action against Eckoh to recover the costs it has incurred as a result of the mismanagement of the You Say We Pay competition.
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NewsC4 fined£1.5m for phone-in mistakes
Channel 4 has been slapped with a£1.5 million fine by Ofcom for misconduct in viewer competitions aired in Richard and Judy and Deal or no Deal.
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NewsCompetition Commission says Sky should cut ITV stake
The Competition Commission has recommended BSkyB reduce its controversial 17.9% stake in ITV to below 7.5%.
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NewsLeon won 'fair and square' says ITV
ITV has taken the unusual step of revealing that Leon Jackson won The X Factor by 10% in a bid to crush rumours that the result was affected by problems with phone voting.