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NewsNews pilot bidders demand legal protection
Bidders to run the new independently funded news consortia (IFNC) pilots are still “in it to win it”, but many are demanding watertight termination clauses in their contracts after the Conservative party reiterated its desire to scrap the scheme.
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NewsSky 1 promotes Gray and Taylor to senior roles
Sky 1 has named Duncan Gray and Celia Taylor head of entertainment and head of factual and features respectively.
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NewsSky kicks off 3D football trial in pubs ahead of weekly launch
Sky will screen its first live 3D football match in nine pubs this weekend ahead of the launch of a game-a-week service from April.
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NewsYounge peps up BBC production morale
The BBC’s new production chief Pat Younge has issued a rallying cry to staff, calling on them to shout about their hits like an indie.
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NewsBBC World News counting on stars in regional push
BBC World News is to emphasise star names in a shake-up of its schedules, in a bid to grow ad revenues in Asia, Asia Pacific and Europe.
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NewsBBC2 reunites Mel and Sue for British baking competition
Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc are to re-team for their first series in more than a decade - a BBC2 quest to find the UK’s best amateur bakers.
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NewsBetty secures C4 order for glitzy wedding show
Country House Rescue indie Betty has won an order for a Channel 4 format that will bring Las Vegas-style weddings to the UK.
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NewsCITV’s award-winning Bookaboo faces axe over funding gap
Broadcast- and Bafta-winning CITV series Bookaboo’s future is in the balance as it desperately goes on the hunt for a deficit funding partner.
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NewsSetback for Salford as CBeebies chief quits
BBC Children’s move to Salford suffered a major setback yesterday after CBeebies controller Michael Carrington quit the corporation.
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NewsHD customers boost profits at BSkyB
Nearly half a million customers signed up to BSkyB’s high-definition TV package in the last three months of 2009 following a pre-Christmas marketing push.
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NewsSecond generation Going Back to their roots on C4
Channel 4 is to take three second-generation immigrant families back to their forefathers’ homelands to see if life is better there than in recession-hit Britain.
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NewsBruce is ‘art detective’ in primetime BBC1 show
Fiona Bruce is to bring art history to primetime audiences in a new detective-style series for BBC1.
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NewsJapan picks up Not Going Out
Not Going Out, the comedy that was axed and then reinstated by BBC1, has been picked up by three more broadcasters.
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NewsDubbed Top Gear set for debut on German channel
BBC Worldwide has struck a deal for Top Gear to make its German debut, and a local version may also be in the pipeline.
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NewsThorogood quits BBC for Scripps’ Food Network
Nick Thorogood is to step down from his senior role at the BBC Commercial Agency to oversee the rollout of the Food Network across Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Scripps Networks Interactive.
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NewsITV1 and Twofour win top Broadcast awards
ITV1 was last night named Channel of the Year at the Broadcast Awards, where it also scored success with ratings juggernauts The X Factor and Coronation Street.
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NewsThomson shareholders agree to debt restructure plan
French media technology group Thomson is to be re-named as Technicolor after securing approval from its shareholders for a debt restructure.
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NewsITV appoints Adam Crozier chief executive
ITV has appointed Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier as its new chief executive.
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NewsBBC challenged to improve commissioning of live events
The government’s spending watchdog has tasked the BBC with improving the commissioning of live events such as the Olympics and Wimbledon to ensure value for money.