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NewsTedial recruits sales director
MAM and storage software provider Tedial has appointed David Abel to the role of sales director.
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NewsFreesat appoints chief technology officer
Freesat has appointed Matthew Huntington as the company’s chief technology officer.
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NewsThe Voice launches playalong game
The BBC and Wall To Wall have launched a playalong game ahead of the second series of The Voice.
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NewsGreg Dyke named FA chairman
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke is to become the chairman of the Football Association (FA).
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NewsBroadcast hosts Tapping into TV Tax Breaks event
Broadcast is hosting a seminar to help TV producers understand how to benefit from the forthcoming TV tax breaks.
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NewsBBC3 to order iPlayer exclusives
BBC3 is to commission six drama shorts exclusively for the BBC iPlayer over the next two years.
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VideoVIDEO: Life's Too Short special
Ricky Gervais introduces the cast of the BBC2 Life’s Too Short special which features Warwick Davis, Shaun Williamson, Keith Chegwin and Les Dennis, “and some famous people too.”
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NewsITV4 picks up Hell on Wheels
Wild West drama Hell on Wheels is to make its free-to-air debut on ITV4 later this year.
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RatingsMartin Lewis delivers 3m to ITV
The Martin Lewis Money Show underperformed against the slot average on its return to ITV in a night of unspectacular terrestrial ratings.
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NewsHBO orders US remake of Getting On
HBO has ordered a full series US remake of British comedy Getting On from BBC Worldwide Productions.
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CBS Reality buys Amanda Knox doc
CBS Reality has acquired true crime one-off Amanda Knox: The Untold Story, weeks ahead of the launch of her tell-all book about the night British student Meredith Kercher was murdered.
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NewsSky orders set of new comedies
Sky has ordered a raft of comedies including series from Curb Your Enthusiasm producer Robert Weide and the team behind Horrible Histories.
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NewsIngenious poaches BBCW indie exec
Media investment firm Ingenious Media has poached key BBC Worldwide indie exec Simon Cox.
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NewsITV outlines 2013 plan as Crozier earnings hit £3.7m
The details of ITV’s transformation plan have been reiterated in its annual report, which also reveals chief executive Adam Crozier saw his pay package grow to £3.7m in 2012 following the business’ strong financial performance.
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RatingsMimicry’s not dead on C4
As a yoof, my only skill was replicating the sound of the family telephone. For weeks, the phone would ‘ring’ at deliciously inconvenient times. My stifled giggling eventually betrayed me and I was crushed in an avalanche of telling off. Still, mimicking isn’t dead, as Channel 4’s new comedy showed.
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RatingsQueen finds an audience
ITV doc pulls in more than 5 million on Sunday as Friday’s Comic Relief wins the week for BBC1
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RatingsSpurs score for ITV4
Manicurists in London may have had a few odd visits from burly blokes on Friday morning: Tottenham fans with no nails asking for falsies.
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RatingsFewer TVs but more viewing
The future: it’s confusion, wrapped in contradiction inside uncertainty. Wonderbra ad man Trevor Beattie says the 30-second ad is dead: long live the bite-sized, five-second ad, or, unhelpfully, the two-minute ad.
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NewsJeremy Darroch confirms Sky indie spending plans
BSkyB chief executive Jeremy Darroch has confirmed Broadcast’s analysis of the broadcaster’s indie sector spending plans – and revealed that its content investment may not stop at £600m.
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NewsUniversal Music label launches channel
Universal Music-owned record label All Around The World is launching a music television channel Planet Pop, which will be run by former Channel 4 executive Simon Sadler.