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NewsOfcom to tighten interactive regulations for Sky
Media regulator Ofcom has called for change in the regulations BSkyB must adhere to with regards to the terms and charges for third party broadcasters on its interactive platform.
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NewsJowell: BBC won't get 2.3% licence fee rise
The government is to cut the BBC's controversial demand for a£180-a year-licence fee - and has said for the first time that the corporation will not get the settlement it has asked for.
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NewsNewsround investigates child arsonists
BBC Children's series Newsround has chosen the topic of arson committed by children as the first subject for its new investigative strand.
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NewsTWI gets into podcasting
8am:TWI has teamed up with two former Sky pundits to launch a new advertiser-funded podcast for golf fans on the iTunes music store.
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NewsPEER POLL: Terry Wogan
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is Terry Wogan worth£800,000 a year?
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NewsOff the record - Beard or No Beard?
OTR came across this picture of a beardless-Noel Edmonds the other day, taken back in 2001
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NAB Focus: HDV - Is HDV the way ahead for docs?
HDV camcorders are fast becoming a must as a second or field camera on many factual
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NAB Focus: podcasting - Power of podcast
Portable music players have created unexpected opportunities for content providers.
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NewsTwo more GCap execs exit
Capital Radio bosses Keith Pringle and Nik Goodman are to leave the station with immediate effect, with owners GCap saying the station needs to recruit people with 'specific skills' to help it win back audience.
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NewsReal Story Special interests just 1.8m
BBC1's The McCartneys Versus the Fur Tradesuffered from viewer apathy with just 1.8 million (7.6%) at 9pm as the channel fell to its lowest all-hours share since August last year.
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Morgan exposes celeb sackings
Piers Morgan is returning to BBC1 to reveal the stories behind the high-profile sackings of celebrities including Linford Christie and Vinnie Jones.
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Sunset + Vine lays down pack of poker shows
Sunset + Vine has secured orders for five gaming series from Challenge in a deal understood to be worth more than£4m.
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Sky One makes explosive history
Sky One is tracing the history of all things explosive in a new documentary series presented by The Fast Show's Mark Williams (pictured). Made by Granite Films Production, Mark Williams' Big Bangs is a 4 x - 60-minute series in ...
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Sky Sports trials Arri super-slo-mo prototype
Sky Sports is trialling a prototype high-speed camera which captures 1,080 progressive images at 300 frames per second and could displace orders for next generation Sony and Grass Valley super-slow-motion cameras, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Resolution goes to Movies
Resolution has produced the titles and programme graphics for Diverse's Greatest Ever Movies, a 6 x 180-minute series about six genres of film - comedy, disaster, blockbuster, romantic, 1980s and horror - counting down the top 40. Creative director Darren Marshall designed, animated and composited ...
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Sumners fires up Shootout
Sumners has created the titles for Suburban Shootout, an 8 x 30-minute co-production from Five, Paramount Comedy, Feelgood Fiction and Oxygen. The series is a Desperate Housewives-style black comedy set in the home counties. Designers Alan O'Brien and Anthony Scott ...
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Vizrt signs BBC deal
Graphics specialist Vizrt has signed a four-year deal with the BBC to provide it with live rendered 3D graphics systems. The deal, worth between£1m and£2m, will enable the BBC to buy Vizrt graphics software at reduced rates. Networked news programmes and the larger national and regional stations are expected to ...
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Tigress stalks yeti for Animal Planet
Bristol-based factual indie Tigress Productions has secured a commission from Animal Planet US to produce a major new programme on the search to uncover the yeti.
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ID scores flurry of Landmark sales at MipTV
ID Distribution has secured a number of sales for regional indie Landmark Films on the back of MipTV.
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Fremantle brings back quiz classics
Fremantle Media wants to capitalise on its upcoming US version of ITV1's Gameshow Marathon for CBS by reviving other classic quiz formats from its extensive library.