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Leopard changes
Leopard Films, the indie behind BBC1 series Cash in the Attic, and Missing, has made two senior promotions. Susie Field moves up from head of production and chief operating officer to managing director while head of factual entertainment Bernard Periatambee becomes head ...
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Schoonmaker bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker and Macquarie Bank have entered a second application for a UK local FM radio licence - this time for Ipswich. Last month Schoonmaker and Macquarie, the Australian investment bank, entered a bid for the Swansea licence under the name Radio UK Holdings. He ...
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Extreme sells poker
Extreme Entertainment has signed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with The Poker Channel. Extreme will look to sell both standalone programming and branded blocks of the channel internationally in all territories except the UK. The Poker Channel, which launched in March this year, has produced 150 hours of programming to ...
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Arqiva TX contracts
Arqiva has won four new 12-year FM transmission contracts for stations awarded new licences by Ofcom. Under the new contracts, Arqiva will provide transmission services for two new The Local Radio Company stations, The Bee in Blackburn and Durham FM in Durham. It will also serve Midlands News Association-owned station ...
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Corrie's Wood may cross to Mersey
Coronation Streetproducer Tony Wood is in talks to join Mersey TV as creative director. Wood has already announced that he will leave the soap at the end of the year. Mersey TV, producer of Hollyoaks, is run by Wood's former Coronation Streetboss ...
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ITV news veterans back for 50th
ITV News alumnae, including Selina Scott and Gordon Honeycombe, will return to present the evening bulletin for one night only, as part of ITV's 50th anniversary celebrations. Mark Austin will present the 6.30pm bulletin with Scott, Anna Ford and Julia Sommerville, while Mary Nightingale will team up with Martyn Lewis ...
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Sky offers£5,000 prize for best indie doc
Sky One is putting£5,000 up for grabs for the best authored documentary idea to come from an indie. Entries are being accepted until 26 September and the five finalists will be announced at the Sheffield Documentary Festival on Friday 14 October. Indies will then pitch to a panel of Sky ...
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RDF media recruits investment specialist
RDF Media has hired private equity expert Jonny Slow to help it identify new acquisition and investment opportunities. He joins as director of corporate development from Sand Aire Private Equity - a London-based private equity firm that specialises in investing in small to medium-sized firms.
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'Inappropriate' Humphrys taken to task
The BBC has reprimanded veteran BBC presenter John Humphrys after a video leaked to The Timesshowed him deriding senior Labour cabinet members. His comments prompted a BBC investigation, and in a statement director general Mark Thompson said Humphrys' turn of phrase was 'inappropriate'.
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Duo launch TV genius search engine
Bob Eggington, the launch director of BBC News Online, and Tom Weiss, former vice-president of T-Mobile Europe, have set up a search engine called TV Genius dedicated to finding UK TV shows. The service allows users to search listings for all UK TV channels, films, sports, comedy, drama and documentaries. ...
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It's a man's world
Jonathan Webb is best known for his influential and successful poker programmes on Challenge. His latest brief is to move men's channel Bravo upmarket and widen its appeal to 16 to 44-year-olds. By Steve Clarke.
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This season's must-haves
Before industry delegates pack up their comfy shoes ready to scour IBC at Amsterdam's RAI centre, Keri Allan asked four differing TV tribes what's on their shopping list.
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Taking baby steps
RDF's investment in The Baby Channel may have been motivated by sound business sense, but does it signal a host of similar niche channel moves by production companies?
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Northern renaissance
The TV scene in the north-west is bursting with ambition, energy and ideas - now it just needs infrastructure.
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An unhappy business
The TV industry needs to take the happiness of its workforce seriously - particularly those working in reality TV - or face an exodus of key talent.
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Sex Appeal
Are women controlling what's shown on TV and feminising it as newsreader Michael Buerk has implied, or are broadcasters just catering for a change in viewing habits?
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Share and share alike
Despite their historical antipathy to co-operation, broadcasters may find the best way to conquer the future is to work together.
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He's the strong, silent type
The media-shy new BBC head of television news is happy to let his career achievements do the talking as he prepares to bring News 24 out of Sky's shadow, writes Steve Clarke.
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Freesat vs Sky
The launch of Freesat has the potential to eventually challenge Sky's monopoly in the pay-TV satellite market.
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ITV this week announced it was joining forces with the BBC to launch a free satellite TV service to rival Sky.