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News4oD iPhone app launches
Channel 4 has launched a 4oD iPhone app that will allow users to catch-up on the broadcaster’s content.
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NewsKelvin Mackenzie unveils new sports channel
Former Live TV boss Kelvin Mackenzie is returning to broadcasting with the launch of an online sports channel on Freeview.
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NewsMillion Pound Drop to find all players online
Channel 4 is to recruit all of its contestants for the forthcoming series of interactive gameshow The Million Pound Drop via the internet.
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NewsDawn Porter tries luck with C4
Dawn Porter is to front a new Channel 4 series examining the nature of luck and people’s perception of it.
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NewsChorion IP to be sold
Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Mr Men and The Octonauts are set to be sold to individual bidders, as Chorion’s backers attempt to minimise their losses.
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NewsC4 to revisit Japanese Tsunami
New amateur footage of the Japanese tsunami is to feature in a new documentary for Channel 4.
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NewsC5 to follow funfair workers
Channel 5 has ordered an ob doc series which will meet the often secretive families who run funfairs across the country.
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NewsGreenlight round-up: Hacking, spies and Ab Fab
The BBC and Sky have commissioned comedy specials that will satirise the hacking scandal and the British crime genre while re-commissioning several successful series
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NewsCNBC launches connected TV stocks app
Business and financial news broadcaster CNBC has launched an internet connected TV app across a range of platforms including Samsung TVS and Virgin Media’s Tivo.
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NewsProtestors disrupt BBC Proms
Classical music fans tuning into last night’s BBC Proms found themselves listening to a recording instead of the live performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, after protestors disrupted the evening’s event.
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NewsBattle lines drawn in comedy
Comedy has emerged as a key battleground after this year’s Edinburgh festival, as BBC1 and ITV1 unveiled new initiatives to fend off Sky’s latest offensive in the genre.
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NewsScots to query BBC funding
The BBC is facing another attack on its funding, with the Scottish government calling for £75m to be ring-fenced from the licence fee to fund a national PSB.
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NewsBBC trials first playalong app
The BBC is conducting its first trial of two-screen playalong technology, using audio watermarking around Saturday night gameshow The National Lottery: Secret Fortune.
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NewsSkillset reveals training frustration
Bullying is rife in broadcasting, has worsened over the past decade, and management training is urgently required - yet Skillset says it has training bursaries it “can’t give away”.
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NewsBBC3 and E4 differ over pre-watershed
BBC3 is to all but stop commissioning for pre-watershed slots at precisely the moment E4 puts resource into 8pm for the first time.
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NewsCohen sets out the ‘step change’ in BBC content
The BBC’s channel controllers outlined commissions and content wishlists at Edinburgh as they deflected questions about impending Delivering Quality First cuts.
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NewsO’Reilly slams Heggessey ‘personal attack’
Presenter Miriam O’Reilly, who won a landmark ageism case against the BBC, has hit back at a “personal attack” on her during an Edinburgh Festival debate.
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NewsAdastra wins Turner order
Turner Broadcasting’s pre-school brand Cartoonito has ordered its first pan-EMEA show from Grandpa In My Pocket-producer Adastra.
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NewsISPs to sell YouView boxes for under £100
YouView partners BT and TalkTalk are preparing to sell the internet-connected TV service for less than £100.
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NewsDNI ditches ‘beards and bellies’ for fresh ideas
Discovery Networks International (DNI) is moving away from the “beards and bellies” of recent years and has called on the UK indie sector to deliver fresh ideas.