More Edinburgh TV Festival News – Page 3360
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NewsOctober in first-look deal with RDF
8am: October Films has signed a first-look deal with RDF Rights, covering all international TV and consumer product rights.
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NewsSharman takes Edinburgh TV Festival chair
5pm: On the same day as announcing her departure from the BBC, Alison Sharman has been confirmed as the advisory chair for the 2006 Edinburgh TV Festival.
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NewsPlayboy TV rolls out free-to-air channel
Playboy TV has launched its first free-to-air channel on Sky, offering viewers a toned down version of the adult programming available on its subscription channels.
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NewsThomson: BBC should be exempt from spectrum tax
BBC director of strategy Caroline Thomson has argued that the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five should be exempt from paying a spectrum tax being considered by Ofcom.
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NewsBBC Prime expands into Korea
BBC Prime has become the first British channel to launch in Korea, broadcasting everything from The Catherine Tate Show to Parkinson.
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NewsMore4 to air Pinter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Channel 4's new digital offering More4 has bagged the exclusive rights to broadcast Harold Pinter's Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
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NewsC4's Snow hits out at new generationof news readers
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow has attacked the rise of news anchors with no experience of covering major news stories in the field.
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NewsBBC1's Macbeth haunts 3.4m
Macbeth, the second of BBC1's modern adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, proved to be a turn-off with viewers as it only attracted an average audience of 3.4 million (13.7%) at 8.30pm.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE - Sharman quits BBC for ITV
ITV has poached Children's BBC controller Alison Sharman to oversee an expanded department as director of factual and daytime.
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NewsMore4 gives BBC4 a run for its money
11.15am: The multichannel battle for upmarket adult viewers has heated up over the previous month as More4 has successfully nestled into the market with a share of 0.52%.
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NewsC4 to unveil big budgetentertainment show
11am: Channel 4 will tomorrow unveil a major new primetime entertainment series in an attempt to compete with ITV in the crucial pre-Christmas schedule.
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NewsEmap's radio division on the up
10.45am: Emap has said revenues for its radio division grew 23% from£47m in the first half of 2004 to£58m in the six months to 30 September, when it included the former Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) stations it bought in August.
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NewsBBC defends broadband drive
The BBC's director of new media and technology Ashley Highfield has defended the corporation's drive into broadband broadcasting, claiming it is taking risks 'on behalf of the industry'.
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NewsC4 and Five battle it out for Freeview slot
10.30am: ITV has pulled out of bidding for the latest Freeview slot, leaving Channel 4 and Five to battle it out for the coveted channel space, which is thought to have attracted offers for as much as£12 million.
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NewsYoomedia forecasts lossesof£1.6m for 2005
10.15am: Interactive media and games group Yoomedia has warned it will not be profit making until at least the first quarter of 2006, following protracted re-negotiations of its William Hill contract.
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NewsRedgrave to front ITV1 rowing talent show
8am: Olympian legend Sir Steve Redgrave, who bagged six gold medals for Great Britain, is to star in a new ITV1 factual show.
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NewsMock The Week wins second run
8am: Indie Angst Productions has won a recommission for a second series of its topical comedy series Mock The Week.
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NewsUBC rolls out Emap deal
8am: Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) stations, recently acquired by Emap, have signed up to carry UBC Media's daily entertainment news service.
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NewsProduction begins on Cracker
Former Coupling actor Richard Coyle will join Robbie Coltrane in ITV1's new two hour episode of Cracker, which went into production today in Manchester.
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NewsCowell named showbiz personality of the year
TV and radio presenters Simon Cowell, Victoria Derbyshire, and Gordon Ramsay all picked up gongs at the 53rd annual Variety Club Showbusiness Awards, last night.