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NewsC4 annual results: digested
Click for Broadcast’s coverage of Channel 4’s financial report of 2013.
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NewsC4 blames BBC daytime strategy for share decline
Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has blamed the “seismic” impact of BBC’s shift in daytime strategy for contributing to loss of share on its main channel.
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NewsDiscovery & Liberty buy All3Media
A round-up of Broadcast’s coverage of Discovery and Liberty Global’s £550m acquisition of All3Media.
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NewsC4 commissioning priorities revealed
Channel 4’s annual report provided a breakdown of its commissioning priorities for 2014 and beyond. Broadcast takes you through the genres to cast light on its strategy.
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NewsDiscovery eyes All3Media pipeline
Discovery’s ground-breaking deal to buy All3Media will give it a massive pipeline of content to exploit via second runs on its channels around the world.
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NewsTV failing women directors
Directors UK (DUK) is challenging broadcasters and producers to ensure that 30% of all shows are directed by women by 2017, after a major study found significant inequality in key genres, from crime drama to panel shows.
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NewsDiscovery & Liberty Global agree deal to buy All3Media
Discovery and Liberty Global have agreed a £550m-plus deal to acquire super-indie All3Media.
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NewsC4 marries strangers in new format
Channel 4 has commissioned Married at First Sight, a controversial Danish format that sees strangers get married after meeting for the first time.
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NewsC4 finances stable as share suffers
Channel 4 made a loss of £15m in 2013 - a year in which it missed key audience share targets, but made more than half its programmes outside of London for the first time.
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NewsRed Bull to launch TV channel on Sky
Red Bull is to launch a linear TV channel in the UK after securing carriage with BSkyB.
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NewsC5 deal opens door for Pact
Viacom’s acquisition of Channel 5 represents an opportunity for new terms of trade to be struck between Pact and the UK broadcaster.
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NewsViacom’s vision for Channel 5
Viacom is keen to bolster links between its US and UK assets once it completes its £450m acquisition of Channel 5, ramping up coproduction opportunities between the British broadcaster and the likes of MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon.
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NewsC5 orders OAP doc and series on Roman Empire
Gavin & Stacey star Larry Lamb is to front a Channel 5 series charting the history of the Roman Empire.
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News7 Wonder lands Sky series as first order
7 Wonder, the indie co-founded by former Maverick boss Alex Fraser, has won its first commission: a Micky Flanagan-fronted travelogue in France for Sky 1.
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NewsDCMS kicks off hunt for Patten’s successor
The BBC Trust may have to wait up to six months for chair Lord Patten to be replaced – and John Whittingdale has warned that there won’t be a “massive queue” of candidates clamouring to fill the role.
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NewsAnalysis: ITV’s Leftfield deal
ITV’s £212m acquisition of Pawn Stars producer Leftfield Entertainment Group will catapult it to the top reaches of the independent production sector in the US.
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NewsNat Geo orders World War II docs for global slate
National Geographic Channels International has commissioned two big-budget World War II documentaries as part of its latest slate of global programming.
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NewsBBC unveils World Cup plans
The BBC will launch an online World Cup breakfast show as part of a commitment to broadcast 50% more coverage of the football tournament than in 2010.