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NewsBBC Children’s to target teens with extra budget
BBC Children’s plans to use some of its recently approved extra budget to try to attract more teenage viewers to its CBBC channel.
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NewsFrontrunners emerge for BBC commissioning role
Watchdog editor Jeff Anderson and BBC executive producers Lisa Edwards and Alison Kirkham are thought to be in the running to succeed Jo Ball as commissioning editor for features for BBC1 and BBC2.
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NewsITV breaks new ground in Baby Cow app transfer
Baby Cow has won an ITV commission for an animated series in what is thought to be the first time an iPhone app has been turned into a TV show.
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NewsC4 plans follow-up series to My Beautiful Face doc
Channel 4 is to turn its Bafta-nominated Cutting Edge documentary Katie: My Beautiful Face into a four-part series.
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NewsStreet Striker to return
Ad-funded football talent contest Coke Zero Street Striker, presented by Wayne Rooney, has been recommissioned by Sky 1 HD for a third series to start filming in August.
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NewsPineapple spin-off set for a nationwide tour
Sky 1 is to turn the follow-up to Pineapple Dance Studios into a live event that it plans to take around the country.
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NewsBBC audio chief defends digital radio strategy
BBC director of audio Tim Davie has defended the corporation’s digital radio strategy but admitted the industry needs a “step change in all areas” to achieve its digital switchover target.
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NewsProducers slam Trust’s support for online cuts
Multiplatform producers campaigning for the BBC to rethink its online strategy have given short shrift to the BBC Trust’s backing for the proposed 25% budget cut.
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NewsITV to put bosses to the test
ITV’s 150 senior managers are to undertake psychometric tests to assess whether they have the right skills for their jobs as part of a overhaul that sees the departure of ITV Studios bosses Lee Bartlett and Remy Blumenfeld.
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NewsBBC Daytime to get £5m boost to aid reinvention
BBC Daytime is closing in on a budget boost of between £5m and £10m as it prepares to fast-track its transformation in the wake of strong criticism from the BBC Trust.
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NewsMet Office renews BBC deal
The Met Office has had its contract to supply the BBC’s weather renewed for a further five years, after the contract was put up for tender for the first time in nearly 90 years.
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NewsCeleb chefs more effective than gov't healthy eating campaigns
Jamie Oliver was right to ignore recent criticism from the Government as new research indicates that cooking shows and documentaries are more influential than government healthy eating campaigns.
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News5 Live team to meet northern indies
Execs from BBC Radio 5 Live are visiting Salford on 29 July to meet indies ahead of the station’s 2011 Manchester move.
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NewsJonathan Ross to host ITV chatshow
ITV has announced that Jonathan Ross is to front a new prime chatshow that is slated to launch next year.
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NewsTwofour admits using "misleading" footage
Indie Twofour has admitted that it “appears” to have mistakenly misled audiences over footage in a series about a Bristol housing estate.
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NewsBartlett and Blumenfeld out in ITVS overhaul
ITV Studios bosses Lee Bartlett and Remy Blumenfeld are leaving the company with incoming managing director Kevin Lygo taking full responsibility for the UK and international side of the business.
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NewsITV suffers World Cup commentary blow
ITV struggled through last night’s coverage of the World Cup clash between Uruguay v Holland with just one commentator after summariser Jim Beglin fell ill.
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NewsPolice complain over 'misleading' BBC doc
A policeman in Bristol has said a BBC programme about a housing estate in the city is misleading.
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NewsESPN kicks off Premier League coverage
ESPN will kick off its Premier League coverage by screening matches involving defending champions Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.
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NewsBBC counts cost of Salford move
The BBC’s annual report has revealed the significant cost of moving 2,300 staff to the corporation’s new northern headquarters in Salford.