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NewsThompson: BBC may axe regional partnership
BBC director general Mark Thompson has warned that the corporation could pull its regional news-sharing proposals if the government does not change its mind on top-slicing.
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BBC1 goes Around the World with XM25 scheme
Former Touch Productions execs Nick Watts and Joseph Maxwell have teamed up with Nasa for the first project from their new company, Burning Blue Media.
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NewsBBC to tighten taste rules in wake of Sachsgate
The BBC is to implement new production guidelines to guard against “malicious intrusion, intimidation and humiliation” and make sure that they are “never celebrated for the purposes of entertainment”.
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NewsBBC3 to air live Schools Question Time
The BBC is to broadcast Schools Question Time live for the first time – with two airings on BBC3 and BBC1 in the same evening.
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NewsPublic wants BBC to pursue risk
A BBC report commissioned in the wake of the Sachsgate scandal has found that the British public wants the corporation to pursue creative risk and accepts that offence may be caused in the process.
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NewsBBC Radio plans Whitman and Holiday docs
BBC Radio is taking a look at some of America’s leading cultural icons – with a doc on the poet Walt Whitman on BBC Radio 4, and a Radio 2 special on Billie Holiday, fronted by Neneh Cherry.
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NewsBBC plans 'pop-up restaurant' show
BBC2 is piloting a primetime reality format based on “pop-up restaurants” – the second of its type to hit the headlines in as many months.
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Clampdown on University Challenge rules
The BBC has tightened the rules for University Challenge in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year’s debacle which saw the ‘winning team’ being disqualified.
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NewsBBC1 to animate Gruffalo
BBC1’s is planning an animated version of the bestselling children’s book The Gruffalo as the centrepiece of its Christmas schedule.
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NewsSunset + Vine strikes tennis deal
Sunset + Vine has extended its contract for the coverage of the Eastbourne and Birmingham tennis tournaments up to 2013.
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NewsBBC Vision "front-loads" cuts
BBC Vision is to make 7.5% in efficiency savings this year, as it front loads its five-year cost cutting plan.
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NewsiPlayer guru honoured at Broadcast Digital Awards
BBC future media controller Anthony Rose was honoured with the Individual Achievement Award for his “ground-breaking” work on the BBC iPlayer at last night’s Broadcast’s Digital Awards.
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NewsBBC comedy chief quits for Sky
The BBC’s comedy chief Lucy Lumsden is leaving the corporation after 11 years to join Sky.
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NewsTalkback unveils Scottish unit with Hole in the Wall order
Talkback Thames is to open a new production base in Glasgow, headed by BBC Scotland’s former creative director of arts and factual entertainment May Miller, and has bagged a second run of BBC1’s Hole in the Wall as its first commission.
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NewsBBC plans strategy to fight top-slice threat
The BBC’s top management was locked in meetings to discuss the fall out from Digital Britain on Wednesday afternoon ahead of a last-ditch attempt to stave off top-slicing - but the mood among rank-and-file staff was very different.
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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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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.