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News24-7 joins The Bottle Yard
Bristol production facility The Bottle Yard has signed its first permanent tenant
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NewsFoley guru Carr returns to Goldcrest
Foley mixer Paul Carr has come out of retirement to set up a Foley studio at London post facility Goldcrest.
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NewsApproval for DTG spec
The seventh edition of the Digital TV Group’s (DTG) interoperability specification for UK Digital Terrestrial Television and Hbb TV-based connected TVs has been formally approved by the DTG Council.
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NewsC4 rekindles 2005 ‘gay or straight’ dating format
Dating reality format Playing It Straight is being remade for Channel 4 following its first outing in 2005.
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NewsMaverick hires exec producers for upcoming shows
Maverick has appointed two exec producers as it hopes to close a raft of new commissions with terrestrial and multichannel broadcasters.
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NewsE4 recruiting 100 viewers to push shows online
E4 has launched a marketing initiative under which 100 viewers will be given access to its shows ahead of broadcast in exchange for promoting them online.
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NewsDisney-ABC boss heralds “personal” TV
MIPCOM: Television will become increasingly more personal as the lines between content and technology blur, according to Disney-ABC exec Anne Sweeney.
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NewsITVS acquires Ultimate Dance Battle
MIPCOM: ITV Studios has picked up the rights to a new reality dance format from RTL in the Netherlands.
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NewsBBC staff encouraged to contact DG over cuts
Mark Thompson has told staff they can email him “any time” following tomorrow’s Delivering Quality First announcements, which will see budget cuts of around 20% totalling £1.3bn.
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NewsBarb planning ratings update
Barb plans to launch a cross industry forum that will aim to establish a more coherent way of measuring total TV consumption.
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NewsBBC ties with Ridley Scott on crowdsourced doc
The BBC is working with director Ridley Scott to capture a snapshot of a day in Britain using footage submitted by people from across the country.
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NewsEU blocks pubs showing "decoded" Premier League games
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the FA Premier League cannot prevent the sale of foreign decoder cards for domestic use but broadcasting matches publicly is an offence.
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NewsHorror Channel schedules "banned" season
Chello Zone’s Horror Channel has acquired eight of the “most controversial films made in the history of horror” for a new season of content dubbed Season of the Banned.
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NewsDancing on Ice slides to Greece
MIPCOM: ITV format Dancing on Ice is to be remade in Greece in a series of new deals that will also see Four Weddings adapted for Romania and Come Dine With Me served up in Eastern Europe.
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NewsZodiak acquires ITN’s Showmen
MIPCOM: A new Channel 5 series that follows fairground families has been picked up for global distribution by Zodiak Rights.
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NewsHorse & Country TV forms Euro network
Horse & Country TV has joined forces with two European equestrian broadcasters to form a specialist network with a combined potential reach of 35 million homes.
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AMWA, EBU and SMPTE plot greater cooperation
Three media industry trade bodies have announced plans for “unprecedented” collaboration in a bid to drive common standards and increase interoperability among media organisations.
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NewsSunset+Vine hire FM exec
Sports indie Sunset+Vine has appointed a FremantleMedia exec as its new commercial director as part of its push to become a more global business.
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NewsJapan to explore Wild Wales
MIPCOM: Content Television has sold BBC2 doc Wild Wales to NHK Japan – one of several new deals from its Cardiff-based Content West portfolio.