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NewsSTV scoops Scottish local TV licences
STV has become one the most high-profile companies to win a local TV station bid after picking up licences in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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NewsSnowman and Snowdog game hits 1m downloads
Channel 4’s The Snowman and The Snowdog game was downloaded over 1m times in the three weeks after its launch.
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NewsMrs Brown’s Boys tops BBC's Christmas chart
Mrs Brown’s Boys was the BBC’s biggest show over the festive period, according to Live +7 figures released by the broadcaster.
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NewsMultiplatform: New era for tablets and VoD
2012 was the year of the tablet, and the explosion in sales of the devices, now present in 11% of UK homes, according to Ofcom, has left its mark on the TV industry.
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NewsC5: The post-Ford era begins
The Northern & Shell building will be quieter than usual at the start of 2013 following the departure of a number of senior Channel 5 figures, including Jeff Ford and Kate Barnes.
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NewsC4: Schedule needs successful returners
Channel 4 enters 2013 on the back of the success of the Paralympics – but with a major row over the failure to strike a commercial deal with the powerful GroupM.
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NewsComedy Central thinks global
Comedy Central has ordered a 13-part comedy series fronted by Seann Walsh and hopes to format it internationally.
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NewsFox to spend millions on original UK content push
FX UK is planning to commission up to 50 hours of original UK content by the end of the year as part of its transformation into Fox.
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NewsSky: Playing with the big boys
Last spring, Hat Trick’s Jimmy Mulville hailed Sky for “shaking up” the industry in a manner akin to Channel 4 in the 1980s. He wasn’t wrong.
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NewsSky Vision hires acquisitions exec from BBCW
Sky Vision, the distribution arm of the pay-TV broadcaster, has hired former BBC Worldwide exec Angela Neillis as its first head of acquisitions.
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NewsSky and Canal+ take The Bridge to bilingual co-pro
Sky has greenlit its co-produced version of Scandinavian drama The Bridge, which it claims will be the first bilingual drama project made by broadcasters in France and the UK.
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NewsThe Year Ahead
Click through to discover what the next 12 months holds for the UK’s key players.
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NewsChurch group blasts BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 has been accused of disrespecting its older listeners by moving Sunday Half Hour to an early morning slot.
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NewsBBC cues up snooker rights
The BBC will continue to broadcast the UK’s three biggest snooker tournaments until at least 2017.
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NewsFree Speech returns with Rick Edwards as host
BBC3 has commissioned a second series of Mentorn Media’s live current affairs debate programme, Free Speech - with Rick Edwards replacing original host Jake Humphrey.
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NewsAdrian van Klaveren parachuted into BBC's WW1 plans
Adrian van Klaveren, the former BBC Radio 5 Live boss who lost his job in the wake of Jimmy Savile scandal, is to oversee the corporation’s programming plans for the centenary of World War I.
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NewsHacker group Anonymous plans BBC protest
The protest group that claimed responsibility for bringing down the Home Office website last year is planning to target the BBC in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.