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MPs reject licence fee freeze
More than 150 MPs voted to freeze the BBC licence fee at last year’s level yesterday - but the Tory motion was comfortably defeated in the House of Commons.
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NewsBBC to publish its top level exec expenses
The expenses spotlight is set to turn on the BBC later this year when the corporation begins publishing details of claims made by its executive board members.
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BBCW launches factual YouTube channel
BBC Woldwide has launched a factual YouTube channel after extending its deal with the video-sharing site.
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NewsHadlow plans to give BBC2 feel-good factor
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow is planning to give the channel an “optimistic” overhaul and aims to put more firepower behind its arts coverage.
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NewsBBC staff angry at £10m Discovery commission
BBC Natural History Unit staff are upset after its former head, Keith Scholey, won a £10m-plus commission from Discovery with an idea similar to one they also pitched.
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NewsBBC2 to look at key to success for John Lewis
BBC2 will look at John Lewis’s 150-year history and how the department store business is weathering the current recession in a documentary series.
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Gyles Brandreth to host BBC2 quiz show Knowitalls
BBC2 is to air a quiz show without any questions. Knowitalls will be hosted by politician-turned-Countdown regular Gyles Brandreth.
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BBC1 will profile life of World War vet Harry Patch
The modern-day life of Harry Patch, the last surviving fighting soldier of the First World War, will be profiled in a one-off documentary for BBC1.
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Give us the WoCC, radio indies tell BBC management
Radio indies are urging the BBC to extend the Window of Creative Commission to its radio output.
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BBC1 to hunt Junior Apprentice
Sir Alan Sugar will challenge 10 teenagers to win a £25,000 career boost in spin-off series Junior Apprentice.
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Lyons: No area of the BBC safe from cuts
BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons has told Broadcast there are “no safe areas” at the corporation as it continues to squeeze every pound of the licence fee.
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BBC names new Scotland commissioner
The BBC has hired Sam Anthony as its knowledge commissioning executive producer for Scotland – fresh from Jane Root’s new indie Nutopia.
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Attenborough to unveil 'missing link'
David Attenborough is set to explore the 47 million-year-old ‘missing link’ in human evolution in a primetime BBC documentary.
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BBC Children's names new scheduling boss
Disney Channel’s Louise Bucknole has been appointed the new head of scheduling at BBC Children’s - replaces Philip Stagg who has moved to the BBC HD Channel.
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Generation Kill director joins BBC drama
BBC1’s sci-fi thriller Paradox will be directed by Simon Cellan Jones (Generation Kill) and will star Tamzin Outhwaite.
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Lyons issues warning over licence fee use
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has sounded a clear warning that he will not be railroaded into handing over any digital switchover surplus if licence fee payers would prefer it returned to them.
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Parkinson: Melvyn Bragg should join BBC
Michael Parkinson has urged outgoing host of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg, to join the BBC when the iconic arts programme ends next summer.
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IPA adds to Project Canvas concerns
The UK’s leading trade body for advertising and marketing agencies has added its voice to the concerns about Project Canvas – claiming that the BBC it is not being sufficiently open about its plans for the IPTV joint venture.
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MPs poised to back licence fee rise
MPs are poised to back the BBC this week by rejecting a Tory bid to freeze the BBC licence fee at last year’s level.
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BBC reveals £440m indie spend
The BBC invested £440m in the indie sector across TV, radio and new media in 2008/09, according to provisional figures released today.