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NewsBBC press team faces 20% cut
The BBC press team is facing a cut of up to 20% as the corporation axes 1,000 jobs in a bid to save £150m.
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NewsBBC Trust to review local radio and news
The BBC Trust is to review the corporation’s local radio and local news services.
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NewsAmazon's Audible orders five audio pilots
Hunderby’s Kevin Eldon and Outnumbered’s Hugh Dennis are among the stars to have signed up to appear in a slew of comedy pilots from Amazon-backed digital audio service Audible.
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NewsC4 hires diversity duo
Channel 4 has strengthened its diversity team with the appointment of two executives to implement its 360° Diversity Charter.
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NewsCBBC scales back original commissions
CBBC is to cut back on original commissions and supersize its key brands – as it reveals it is hunting for new presenters and a studio sitcom.
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NewsWhat does £650m buy you at the BBC?
With chancellor George Osborne set to ask the BBC to pick up the bill for licence fees for the over-75s, Broadcast assesses how a £650m cut could impact the corporation’s services.
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NewsWinnie The Witch to fly onto C5
Classic kids character Winnie The Witch is to fly onto TV screens after Channel 5 commissioned a 52-part series for its preschool strand Milkshake.
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NewsChancellor to hit BBC with £650m bill for pensioner licence fees
George Osborne has all-but confirmed plans to make the BBC pick up the £650m bill for free licence fees for the over-75s in his Budget this week.
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NewsLiberty Global buys Ireland's TV3
All3Media co-owner Liberty Global has acquired Irish free-to-air broadcaster TV3 for €80m (£57m) from private equity company Doughty Hanson.
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NewsWebb: CBBC and CBeebies at risk of following BBC3 online
BBC director of children’s Alice Webb has warned that CBBC and CBeebies are at risk of going the way of BBC3 and moving online if the corporation takes a funding cut during charter renewal.
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NewsMulville & Thoday set sights on BBC3 spectrum
Jimmy Mulville and Jon Thoday want the government to preserve BBC3’s TV spectrum for young audiences if the channel is given the full greenlight to move online.
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NewsITV orders two Fremantle daytime formats
FremantleMedia has won picked up two ITV Daytime shows - a quick-fire Sean Fletcher-fronted gameshow and a quiz involving a circular ice table.
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NewsSunset + Vine wins BBC Scotland contract
Sunset + Vine has won a competitive pitch to produce at least 50 hours of sports programming for BBC Scotland over the next 12 months.
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NewsC5 lost £13m ahead of Viacom sale
Channel 5 lost £12.9m in its final nine months of ownership under Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shell, after suffering an advertising dispute with Omnicom and the poor performance of US soap Dallas.
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NewsOfcom: give E4 & More 4 more prominence
Ofcom has suggested that E4 and More 4 programmes are judged as part of Channel 4’s public service remit – with the digital channels handed greater prominence in the EPG.
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NewsTV viewing among young down 18%
TV viewing among young adults has fallen by 18% over the past five years, according to Ofcom.
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NewsTony Hall's letter to BBC staff
Click to read director general Tony Hall’s letter to staff outlining his reasons for cutting 1,000 jobs - and the way in which the target will be achieved.
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NewsUnions oppose compulsory redundancies at BBC
Broadcasting unions have united to oppose compulsory redundancies at the BBC after more than 1000 jobs were put at risk under new cost-cutting measures.
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NewsTVPlayer launches subscription service
OTT video service Simplestream has struck deals with broadcasters including A+E Networks, Discovery, Nat Geo, Sony and UKTV to launch a subscription service.
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NewsBBC1 investigates social housing fraud
BBC1 has commissioned a daytime series on the illegal sub-letting of council housing from Shine TV.