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NewsEurosport appoints UK MD
Eurosport has promoted David Kerr to managing director of its UK division following a five year career at the broadcaster.
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NewsE4 acquires US answer to Inbetweeners
E4 has acquired a new comedy series from the US that centres around college life in the 1980s, which the channel is angling as a successor to The Inbetweeners.
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NewsBBC hunts for head of TV and iPlayer product
The BBC is hunting for a head of TV and iPlayer product to work closely with the broadcaster’s editorial teams to develop new digital products.
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NewsBBC pensions: NUJ to strike, Bectu accepts proposals
BBC staff who are NUJ members will go on strike next month - but their counterparts at Bectu have accepted the corporation’s latest pension proposal.
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NewsHullabaloo Studios to close
Manchester post-production facility Hullabaloo Studios is to be wound up resulting in the loss of eight jobs.
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News3D TV faces ‘cultural limitations’
A professor of graphics and imaging from Cambridge University has warned that despite the current push, 3D TV could still have too many cultural and technical limitations to go mainstream in the UK.
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NewsBin Weevils kids’ site in major content push
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are to distribute 200 hours of ondemand content as a social video service on kids’ virtual 3D world Bin Weevils.
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NewsC4 sets aside £2m for YouView revolution
Channel 4 is putting £2m up for grabs for content designed for YouView and other connected TV services, and is hunting for three new multiplatform commissioners.
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NewsBin Weevils kids’ site in major content push
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are to distribute 200 hours of on demand content as a social video service on kids’ virtual 3D world Bin Weevils.
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NewsReliance Mediaworks expands to tap conversion market
Reliance Mediaworks, the owner of Soho’s iLab, is expanding its visual effects capability in London with a view to post converting 2D features and TV projects into stereo 3D.
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NewsMillion Pound Drop back with online success
Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop has kicked off with 127,000 people playing along online, beating the record for a single episode of 102,000 set during the first series.
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NewsTalkBack's Geater stays as chief exec
Sara Geater has become Talkback Thames’ permanent chief executive after being interim boss for the past four months.
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NewsDAB listening fails to grow
RAJARS: DAB radio has failed to make any significant gains over the last quarter with its weekly reach growing by just 0.3% and the total hours of listening it accounts for remaining flat at 162m.
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NewsMoyles & Evans lose listeners
RAJARS: Both Chris Moyles and Chris Evans, hosts of the breakfast shows for BBC Radio 1 and 2, shed listeners over the past three months.
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NewsHotCam rolls out X Factor multi-camera rig
Equipment hire company HotCam is making the multi-camera custom studio rig that it devised for The X Factor available to other television producers.
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NewsSony set for Sky EPG slot in move into UK market
Sony Pictures Television is poised to move into the UK linear channel market for the first time and is on the brink of a deal to buy a Sky EPG slot.
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NewsBBC to create digital ‘laboratory’
The BBC is planning to modernise how it develops scripted content by creating a “laboratory” designed to test out the next generation of digital and TV formats.
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NewsIndies worried by cull of BBC multiplatform list
The BBC is culling its list of more than 300 approved digital suppliers to a dedicated roster of 30 tech companies – a move that is adding to indies’ fears of investment in multiplatform projects being stifled.
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NewsWorld Service faces overhaul
The director of BBC Global News, Peter Horrocks, has told World Service staff they must adopt “the most radical way of working in any international news operation in the world” to cope with cuts of £67m - to its current budget.
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NewsMore names emerge for top job at BBC3
The race to become the next BBC3 controller is heating up, with more names entering the frame ahead of a decision being made at the end of November.