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Done and Dusted spotlights new bands
Music producer Done and Dusted is to profile the year's most successful new bands for a Channel 4 miniseries. The indie has been commissioned to make Carling's New Kings - a 3 x 30-minute series co-funded by beer maker Carling through its marketing company, Cake. The episodes will follow Hard-Fi, ...
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Digital Classics in market for another indie
Digital Classics is lining up another major acquisition in the wake of its purchase of Box TV.
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BBC1 to offer 'brain workout'
BBC1 is following up Test the Nation with a Saturday night 'brain workout' show from Northern Irish indie Wild Rover Productions.
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Initial makes drama in Northern Ireland
Endemol-owned producer Initial has been commissioned by CITV to make a children's drama series co-funded by the Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC). Bel's Boys follows the life of a nine-year-old pop music fanatic, who manages a boy band. The show will be produced over six months in the ...
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ITV profiles Cosgrove Hall founders
Cosgrove Hall founders Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall are to be profiled in an ITV1 documentary. Made in Manchester Productions, the company formed by swimming champion James Hickman, is making Cartoon Kings to mark the animation company's 30th anniversary in the spring. The show will be narrated by David Jason ...
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Splash in Five deal
Splash Media, the indie set up by former BBC entertainment commissioners Jane Lush and Fenia Vardanis, has landed its first development deal. The indie ' set up with the backing of The Television Corporation when the pair left the BBC in September ' is developing an entertainment format for Five ...
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Bids for NE licence
Ofcom has received 13 applications for the north-east FM commercial radio licence, including three bids from foreign companies. US firm Emmis International, Canadian company CanWest, which recently won the Solent licence, and Australian investment bank Macquarie have entered bids for the licence, which will reach a potential 2 million listeners. ...
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Virgin satellites
Virgin Radio has been granted two more satellite licences from regulator Ofcom. The two further licences are for female-skewed stations, one a ballad-based station targeting 40-plus females, and the second a pop/dance offering aimed at 15 to 29-year-olds. They come on top of two other satellite licences held by the ...
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Ofcom drops review
Ofcom has scrapped its review of the TV advertising market, including the controversial ITV contract rights renewal (CRR) mechanism, after conceding there was nothing wrong with it. The regulator had pencilled in a review of the market earlier this year but today admitted 'the case supporting the need for a ...
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City cash for Alba
Alba Communications, the indie behind Saddam and the Third Reich, has raised£250,000 from City investors, which it will put into factual programming as well as an expansion into DVDs. The Capital Fund, a£50m venture capital fund, has put up the cash and will inject more over the next few years. ...
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FBC appoints Kawash in new COO role
FBC, the European-based media and entertainment group that owns Diverse, producer of Musicality, has appointed former 4Ventures managing director Anmar Kawash to the role of chief operating officer.
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Long wait ahead for product placement
Broadcasters may have to wait for up to two years before product placement gets the green light as legislation works its way through the European Parliament. The European Commission's Television Without Frontiers directive is expected to take between 18 months and two years to be ratified. Ofcom is hoping to ...
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Somethin' Else to open in Manchester
Indie Somethin' Else is to open a Manchester office in the new year. Somethin' Else North will be based at All Out Productions, the Manchester factual indie in which Somethin' Else bought a majority stake in May. The company, which produces the Hit40UK TV and radio shows, will appoint a ...
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George to oversee GCap's UK revenue
Radio giant GCap Media has appointed Duncan George as commercial director, overseeing the group's national and London revenue streams. Previously managing director of national sales, George had been acting commercial director since Linda Smith stood down in September. He will focus on developing non-traditional revenue streams such as podcasting, and ...
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Merry Christmas from Broadcast
Broadcast is taking a festive break and will return with the issue dated 6 January 2006. Broadcastnow.co.uk, will continue to provide daily and breaking industry news up to Friday 23 December and will resume on 3 January. Broadcast would like to wish all our readers
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A learning experience
Ten Alps' acquisition of Brook Lapping gave Brian Lapping the clout to win the Teachers' TV contract, while the company's veteran docs maker Norma Percy is now working alongside new blood. By Suzy Bashford.
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An action-packed year
2005 was a roller-coaster ride that saw C4 fly high, a digital switchover date set and Peter Bazalgette become rich(er).
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Studios' year rises above gloom
Despite a flurry of bleak news stories, the studios sector has had a reasonably good year and, by increasing flexibility and preparing for HD, should be in a strong position for 2006. By Andy Stout.
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Listening to the voice of VoD
When is a TV programme not a TV programme? That is the big question troubling Ofcom, which last week was forced to postpone its long-awaited Television Production Sector Review as it struggled to work it out.
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Tough times, tough measures
Both the BBC and ITV had to face up to some difficult questions in 2005 and it doesn't look as if life will be getting any easier in 2006, says Raymond Snoddy.