All Funding articles – Page 30
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NewsCarl Hall to bring film funding model to TV
Warehouse 51, the company set up by former Sky Vision boss Carl Hall, is looking to bring film-financing models to television as part of a strategy to umbrella film-makers.
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NewsCommissioning & Funding Forum round-up
Click for a round-up of Broadcast’s Commissioning & Funding Forum featuring BBC’s Charlotte Moore, ITV’s Peter Fincham and Channel 4’s Jay Hunt.
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NewsNI Screen reveals £43m funding pot
Northern Ireland is bidding to tempt more Game of Thrones-style high-end TV and film productions to the country through a £43m, four-year investment plan.
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NewsYouView secures £100m funding
The future of YouView has been secured after all seven partners, including the terrestrial broadcasters, committed to the connected-TV platform for a further five years.
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NewsFacebook VoD platform wins funding
Facebook VoD firm Screenburn has secured £500,000 of investment and hired Zodiak Rights boss Steve Macallister to its board.
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NewsYouView funding under threat
YouView’s broadcaster shareholders, including the BBC, are considering reducing their investment in the IPTV service as funding renegotiations gather pace.
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NewsLenny Henry: diversity needs dedicated funding
Actor and writer Lenny Henry has called for broadcasters to ring-fence money to increase BAME representation in the TV industry.
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NewsWarner Bros extends Mip pitch funding
UK indies are being encouraged to enter the Mip Formats International Pitch 2014 event after Warner Bros renewed its deal to provide €25,000 in development funding.
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NewsBBC to boost arts funding by 20%
The BBC is to boost funding for television arts programming by 20% as part of plans to put it “back at the heart” of the corporation.
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NewsLovelive secures £1.7m funding
UK multiplatform indie Lovelive has secured £1.7m of funding from investors including former Endemol boss Ynon Kreiz to help it expand globally.
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NewsIndies split over C4 funding
Indies are divided over Channel 4’s plans to invest in fledgling indies.
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NewsChildren’s pilot uses Kickstarter funding
Bafta-nominated director Ed Kellie has raised £16,000 via crowd-funding site Kickstarter to create a children’s animation pilot narrated by Chris Packham.
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NewsFunding to boost Shazam's TV push
Social discovery service Shazam will look to expand further into television and move into Latin America after receiving a $40m (£27m) investment from Carlos Slim’s America Movil.
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NewsYouTube to stop funding original UK channels
YouTube’s investment in UK-based original content channels is effectively over because the videosharing platform believes it has proved that it can support sustainable content businesses.
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NewsS4C funding maintained by government
Welsh broadcaster S4C has warded off threatened cuts to the £6.7m it receives from the government.
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NewsFormer S4C boss warns of "grave danger" over funding
Former S4C chief executive Arwel Ellis Owen has claimed that the government may cut all of its £6.7m funding for the Welsh language broadcaster.
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NewsChill launches episodic funding
Online distribution platform Chill is moving into the next stage of crowdfunding as it launches episodic funding for its first original series, Jason Mewes-fronted Vigilante Diaries.
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Finance experts launch funding firm
The owners of Halo Post have joined forces with a media analyst and a corporate financier to launch a TV and film funding company.
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NewsTax breaks bring TV funding for Film London
Regional agency Film London is expanding its remit into TV following the introduction of the high-end TV tax break.