All articles by Katherine Rushton – Page 77
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NewsRedundancies confirmed at BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland has confirmed targets to make 14 staff redundant by next April with a further 100 jobs to be axed by April 2009.
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NewsMentorn to film Iraq debate
Mentorn is to film an Intelligence Squared debate for the first time this week, marking the beginning of what the production company hopes will be a new regular strand for the BBC.
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NewsBBC's Silverton gets wider remit
Kate Silverton is to expand her brief across the BBC TV News, with a number of new presenting and reporting roles.
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NewsFreeview plans 'best of the week'
Freeview has revealed plans to take its offering to the next stage by adding a new “best of the week” edited catch-up service.
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NewsQuestions over BBC risk management
The BBC is facing renewed pressure to expose itself to full Parliamentary scrutiny after managerial failings were blamed for the Blue Peter phone-in fiasco.
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NewsBBC rejects union talks after ballot
The BBC has responded to the National Union of Journalists, Bectu and Unite’s decision to ballot for strike action by refusing to meet them at a national level.
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NewsIndustry hails ‘popular’ Hunt as BBC1 controller
BBC staff and indie producers hailed Jay Hunt’s popular tastes and decisive commissioning style after the Five director of programmes was named BBC1 controller.
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NewsBBC retires in-house horse-racing coverage
The BBC will no longer have an in-house team for horse-racing coverage, following a decision to outsource coverage of the Grand National to indie Sunset + Vine.
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NewsBBC hunts new breed of doc makers
BBC New Talent has launched a competition to find three emerging documentary film makers for its BBC3 new talent strand, Fresh.
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NewsBBC doc to follow Olympic hopefuls
The BBC will transfer its A Child of Our Time format to a group of young athletes preparing for the 2012 London Olympics, revisiting them in a series of documentaries each year until the games.
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NewsPact elects new council
Twofour chief executive Charles Wace has been elected as council chair at indie trade body Pact.
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NewsOne in four BBC staff have taken 'trust' course
Some 4,500 BBC staff have already taken the Safeguarding Trust workshop set up in the wake of the trust scandal that erupted this summer.
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FeaturesGiant leap for VoD project
Broadcasters have taken a significant step to secure their online future. But how much will Project Kangaroo benefit content producers?
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NewsTorchwood censored for young viewers
BBC2 is to specially edit repeats of the new series of Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood to make it suitable for younger viewers.
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NewsBBC fills factual commissioning teams
BBC Vision has named the factual commissioning editors who will sit in two separate teams dealing exclusively with in-house or outsourced production.
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NewsHunt's road to the top of BBC1
Cookery, quiz shows and accessible news are the ingredients that have paved Jay Hunt’s way to the top job at BBC1.
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NewsBBC confirms Keelan start date
The BBC has confirmed that Liam Keelan will start as the new controller of daytime on 1 February, ending more than six months of gardening leave from ITV.
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NewsHunt is new boss of BBC1
Jay Hunt has been named the new controller of BBC1, just three months after becoming director of programmes at Five.
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NewsElderly viewers 'confused' over digital switchover
The Ofcom Consumer Panel has called for Digital UK to better target the elderly and people without technical confidence with information about the digital switchover.
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NewsBBC HD prepares for launch
The BBC is to launch the first free-to-air high definition channel tomorrow (1 December), following formal approval by the BBC Trust last week and Ofcom in September.