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NewsUKTV automates
UKTV is set to be the first UK broadcaster to use a software system across its 10 channels specifically for broadcast management. Sintec Media's OnAir is designed to manage UKTV's network scheduling more quickly. The database will be used by around 240 UKTV staff including channel managers, editors and schedulers ...
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UK strong at Promax
UK companies performed well at this year's European Promax & BDA awards, picking up 20 of the 45 gold awards. Red Bee Media was the big winner with seven Promax awards, including a gold for best themed campaign for BBC Pedigree Comedy and a BDA gold award for the best ...
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Interfield maps out BBC's Coup
Interfield Design has created the titles for BBC Productions' Coup, a 90-minute, one-off drama about Mark Thatcher's failed coup in Equatorial Guinea. The sequence, designed by Interfield's Peter Anderson and animated by Lewis White, has the camera panning over a map of the world, interspersed ...
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Urban Chef titled by Vitamin
Vitamin has created the titles for Seven Stones' The Urban Chef, a 10 x 30-minute factual series which follows chef Ollie Rowe opening a new restaurant using food sourced entirely from within the London tube network. The titles, directed and designed by Vitamin creative director ...
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Fremantle signs for first look at Ten Alps
Fremantle International Distribution has signed a two-year deal with Ten Alps' drama division, giving the distributor a first look over the indie's projects in return for a six-figure investment. Ten Alps inherited a slate of drama projects with the February acquisition of Jo Willett's production outfit, Cottage Industry Productions. Its ...
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Landmark scores international sales
RDF Rights has secured a raft of international sales for indie Landmark Films. Channel 4 special Strangest Village in Britain, about Botton Village, which provides a refuge for people with autism, Down's Syndrome, mental illness and other conditions, has been picked up by broadcasters in ...
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RDF USA recruits Yates in senior role
RDF continues to add staff to its growing American operation, hiring one of the executive producers of the US Supernanny as chief operations officer. Tony Yates, who has also worked on The Bachelor and Beauty ...
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Zig Zag heads for Klingon summer camp
Zig Zag Productions is making a two-part factual series for Discovery Travel Channel in the US about people who attend weird summer camps.
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Gravedigger commission for Bristol indie
Bristol-based indie Available Light has won its biggest commission from the BBC to date, a 10 x 30-minute BBC2 series on a West Country gravedigger. Johnny's Kingdom - A Year on Exmoor, looks at the National Park through the eyes of gravedigger turned film-maker Kingdom. ...
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Time Team to excavate royal gardens
Channel 4 has commissioned indies Wildfire Television and Videotext to produce a Time Teamspecial to mark the Queen's 80th birthday in August. Producers of Time Team: Big Royal Dighave secured unprecedented access to excavate gardens at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle ...
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Sixties shown through eyes of Beatles
UKTV History is to explore British society in the sixties through the music and lives of the Beatles. Each episode of the 5 x 60-minute documentary series called The Beatles Decade, will take a particular era in the band's history, looking at the various themes ...
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Best launch is 3C
New digital country music station 3C enjoyed the best results for a newly launched station in the past six months, recording a reach of 109,000 listeners in its first Rajar survey period. The station, owned by Broadcast-publisher Emap, has a slot on the Freeview platform ...
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Vaughan stays top
Johnny Vaughan remains the most popular commercial radio breakfast show DJ in the capital, extending his lead over nearest rival Jamie Theakston. Vaughan on GCap's Capital Radio had 963,000 listeners, down 24,000 on the previous quarter, while Theakston, on Chrysalis' Heart 106.2, had 855,000 listeners, down 63,000. Neil Fox on ...
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BBC Scotland slips
National station BBC Scotland saw its share drop from 9.4% to 8.3% in the latest results, despite adding 19,000 listeners for a total reach of 1.04 million listeners. GMG's Real Radio Scotland, which posted a record share of 17.7% in the last survey, dropped slightly to 16.4%, despite adding 19,000 ...
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Majority now digital
More than half the population have now accessed radio via digital platforms, the first time the figure has passed the halfway mark. Rajar said 51.5% of the population listen via DAB, the internet or their TVs, up from 49.8% in the last quarter. But digital platforms still account for only ...
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Wogan wins again
Veteran DJ Terry Wogan attracted 7,766,000 listeners to his Radio 2 breakfast show. Chris Moyles' Radio 1 show came second, with 6,317,000 listeners, followed by 6,121,000 for Today on Radio 4. Five Live follows with 2,320,000, while Radio 3 has just 839,000 breakfast listeners. Classic ...
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Cheetah poaches Test the Nation producer
Endemol UK's new factual outfit Cheetah Television has poached Test the Nationproducer Alexandra Henderson from Talent TV and has won a new commission for BBC4, which she will executive produce.
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Sky One lines up Rock Star
Sky One has picked up the exclusive rights to reality series Tommy Lee's Rock Star, in which the Motley Crue drummer searches for a lead singer for his new band.
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National Skills Day unveiled
Lessons in the art of high definition filming, the chance to join a presenter on Five's Milkshake kids strand and workshops on The Art of Being Brilliant are a selection of events planned for National Skills Day on Thursday, 25 May.
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FA Cup final kicks off ITV1 thrashing
A hard fought FA Cup final drew the fans to BBC1 and helped send ITV1 crashing to its lowest ever all-hours daily share.