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Sky ups stake in VR firm
Sky has extended its financial backing of Jaunt – taking the total amount it has invested in the virtual reality (VR) service to around £1m.
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Smartzer wins DTG Television Innovation Awards
IBC 2015: Click-to-buy technology firm Smartzer scooped first prize at the DTG Television Innovation Awards.
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C5 rapped over Blinging Up Baby
Channel 5’s Blinging Up Baby has been found in breach of the Ofcom broadcasting code.
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Princess to make YouTube cancer fundraiser
Princess Productions will team up with well-known vloggers to produce a 12-hour live-streamed event on YouTube for Stand Up To Cancer.
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BBC ‘pays Savile victim £15,000 in compensation’
The BBC is reported to have paid £15,000 in compensation to a man who claimed that he was abused by Jimmy Savile’s “accomplices” on a visit to a BBC studio in 1970s.
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In brief: Top Gear; Zig Zag; BBC radio
Chris Evans is heading to Cannes to help BBC Worldwide sell the reimagined Top Gear, plus other industry headlines.
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Pixit Media gets new sales manager
Pixit Media has appointed Richard Hayter-Gare to the role of sales manager.
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NEP forms international events team
NEP Group has formed a new business unit dedicated to supporting the broadcast of major international events, using the company’s flypack and host broadcast capabilities to provide solutions globally.
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Nordic broadcasters back the BBC
Seven bosses from Nordic public service broadcasters have hailed the BBC as “the mother of all public service broadcasting,” in an open letter that warns against diminishing its remit or independence.
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Dawn Airey joins Getty Images
Dawn Airey is to move to New York to join Getty Images as its chief executive officer.
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Sky boss backs BBC over Jeremy Clarkson crisis
Stuart Murphy has strongly backed the BBC’s handling of the Jeremy Clarkson crisis and revealed that a Sky discussion on swooping for the presenter was dismissed in “10 seconds”.
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ITV wants Olympics but rejects BBC Studios
ITV plans to go toe-to-toe with the BBC to win Olympics rights from Discovery and has warned the corporation has massively underestimated the task of creating BBC Studios.
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Discovery eyes UK broadcasters
Discovery Communications is open to the prospect of buying a major UK broadcaster according to president David Zaslav – but he remained cool on the prospect of bidding for Premier League rights.
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BBC trials interactive Casualty
The BBC has launched an interactive episode of Casualty via BBC Taster, its online testing ground.
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Travel Channel trials live restart service
Travel Channel is to become the first broadcaster to trial Arqiva’s live restart functionality, allowing viewers to instantly skip back to the start of any programme during its broadcast.
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BBC News boss calls for election debate overhaul
Director of BBC News and current affairs James Harding has warned that future election debates need to be managed “properly and carefully” to avoid repeating the mistakes of 2015.
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CBBC orders Romanian talent format
CBBC has commissioned a major new kids talent contest based on a Romanian format, marking the first time that a show from the Eastern European country has been remade in the UK.
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China TV conference opens in London
Producers and broadcasters have been invited to the first China-UK Film & TV Conference at London’s Institute of Directors.
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Akamai shows new solutions for online video
IBC 2015: Akamai Technologies used IBC2015 to demo the company’s solutions for improvements in online video content and services.
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BBC Music drums up iPlayer formats
BBC Music is searching for original entertainment formats for iPlayer - with a focus on shows with female-appeal.