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NewsFive widens online reach in ground-breaking deal
Five has signed a syndication deal with online video platform Brightcove that will allow full-length episodes of its programmes to be embedded in third-party websites.
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NewsC4 sends producer Wild for sole survivor doc
Channel 4 will cross a frontier in survival programming by dropping a TV producer into the Canadian wilderness for 12 weeks with just a camera and a backpack.
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NewsITV could charge for on-demand content service
ITV is planning to levy small charges to view on-demand content beyond the standard seven-day catch-up window in a bid to boost revenues.
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NewsTony Ball joins BT as non-exec
Tony Ball, the former BSkyB chief exec tipped to replace Michael Grade at ITV, has joined the BT Board as non-executive director.
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NewsPM plans BBC top slicing bill
DIGITAL BRITAIN: Gordon Brown is to rush a bill through parliament allowing top slicing of the BBC licence fee to become law before the general election, widely expected next May.
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ITV regional news to be funded by BBC licence fee
DIGITAL BRITAIN: ITV will be allowed to reduce its public service obligations in the lead up to digital switchover, and the government will ring-fence a portion of the BBC licence fee to pay for its regional news programming.
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NewsBBC Trust will not 'sit by' and allow licence fee raid
DIGITAL BRITAIN: The BBC Trust has warned it will not “sit quietly by” whilst the licence fee becomes a general “slush fund”, in a strongly-worded list of objections to the Digital Britain report.
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News£200m digital surplus will fund broadband push
DIGITAL BRITAIN: The government has earmarked £200m of the money handed to the BBC to help with digital switchover and provide universal broadband access by 2012.
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NewsChannel 4 to take on teens
DIGITAL BRITAIN: Channel 4 is to have a “solid commitment” to children’s programming enshrined in its statutory remit – particularly targeted at older children and teens.
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NewsX Factor auditions go live
The X Factor is to get a Britain’s Got Talent-style makeover, with auditions to be held in front of a live audience for the first time.
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NewsBBC and STV may share resources
The BBC and STV could share their archives, news footage and production technology, under the latest in the corporation’s partnership initiatives.
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STV and ITV see legal teams over disputed £22m fee
ITV is considering legal action against its Scottish licence holder STV Group, after accusing it of failing to pay a £22m fee for being part of the ITV network.
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NewsPrimeval axed as ITV focuses on 9pm drama
ITV has axed Impossible Pictures’ dinosaur drama Primeval to focus on drama aired after 9pm.
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NewsBBC1 asks again Who Do You Think You Are?
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall, Big Brother presenter Davina McCall and Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles are to all feature in the new run of BBC1’s genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?
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NewsPat Younge named BBC Vision Productions boss
Pat Younge is to replace Peter Salmon as the new chief creative officer of BBC Vision Productions - arguably the biggest production job in UK broadcasting.
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NewsBBC faces £130m cut to licence fee
The Digital Britain report, due to be unveiled tomorrow, is expected to take the £130m digital switchover surplus from the BBC and use it to fund services on other broadcasters.
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NewsOFT: Commission needs to relax ITV's CRR
The Office of Fair Trading has written to the Competition Commission, urging them to make drastic changes to remedy ITV’s Contract Rights Renewal scheme.
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NewsAutumnwatch extended to cash in on web appeal
Autumnwatch will no longer be stripped over two weeks as BBC2 moves to cash in on the series’ multiplatform credentials.
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NewsBBCW in High Court over value of 2Entertain
BBC Worldwide is to appear in the High Court today with the administrator of Woolworths, to settle a dispute over the value of their join venture 2Entertain.
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NewsCarter to quit government
Communications minister Stephen Carter is to step down to rejoin the private sector after he publishes his Digital Britain report, increasing speculation that he is putting himself in the running for the top job at ITV.