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NewsWRN sets sights on media hub to rival Soho
WRN Broadcast is hoping to cultivate a media village that will rival Soho after making office space adjacent to its Vauxhall playout centre available for rent.
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NewsLords to investigate TV ad market
The House of Lords is to launch an investigation into the television advertising market, in a move which will bring ITV’s Contract Rights Renewal scheme under close scrutiny.
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NewsVirgin rapped over HD claims ...
Virgin Media misled consumers with its high-definition offer ahead of the football World Cup, advertising watchdogs have ruled.
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News... as it adds 260,000 HD customers
Signing up almost 260,000 new HD TV customers has helped Virgin Media to grow revenues by 7% to £964m in its second quarter.
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NewsQVC to move to Chiswick Park
Shopping channel QVC is to uproot from Battersea to join fellow broadcasters Discovery Channel, CBS and Paramount at Chiswick Park.
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NewsBartlett lands Discovery role
ITV Studios’ outgoing managing director Lee Bartlett is to join Discovery as executive vice president, global production management, business and legal affairs.
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NewsC4 hands Mykura and Jain new roles
Channel 4 is asking Hamish Mykura to focus on docs and preparing to hand Angela Jain a major new role after passing responsibility for More 4 and E4 to new channel managers.
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NewsGrass Valley sold to technology investors
Technicolor is to sell its Grass Valley Broadcast and Professional business to Francisco Partners, a US-based technology investment company.
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NewsWho Wants To Be a Millionaire? gets major reboot
Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? is set for a major overhaul next month as ITV strives to keep the long-running gameshow fresh for viewers.
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NewsMore Dooley docs for BBC3
BBC3 controller Danny Cohen has unveiled a factual heavy autumn season which includes a return for presenter Stacey Dooley’s hard hitting documentaries.
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NewsC4-backed doc gets BitTorrent release
Renegade Pictures’ documentary The Yes Men Fix the World has had an ‘official’ release on peer-to-peer site BitTorrent after the activists featured in the movie became embroiled in a legal spat with the US Chamber of Commerce.
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NewsTurner returns as Rushes telecine director
Rushes has appointed former Mill and Framestore colourist Matt Turner as its new director of telecine, replacing Adrian Seery who is heading to the US.
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NewsIndustry condemns Film Council axe
Trade bodies Directors UK and the Film Distributors’ Association have joined the chorus of criticism for the government’s “catastrophic” decision to axe the Film Council, which appears to have come out of the blue.
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One in four Australians watch MasterChef final
MasterChef has broken its own ratings record in Australia, with one in four of the population watching the final at its peak.
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NewsPerform installs new Avid-based broadcast workflow
Perform, the digital media broadcasting company, has bought an end-to-end workflow from Avid that includes its Interplay and iNews technologies.
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NewsLiving imports two Warner Bros dramas
Living TV has acquired Chase and Nikita, two US dramas from Warner Brothers following this year’s LA Screenings.
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NewsSherlock recommission is elementary
BBC1 drama Sherlock looks set for a second series after Sunday’s opening episode attracted 7.5m viewers, including BBC HD.
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NewsNickelodeon Land to open in Blackpool
Nickelodeon is opening a Blackpool amusement park featuring characters such as Spongebob Squarepants.
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NewsBubble promotes Walter
Bubble dubbing mixer Adrian Walter has been promoted to the new role of head of audio.
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NewsSnell opens router manufacturing facility
Snell has opened a new manufacturing facility in Reading dedicated to making its range of broadcast routing switchers.