All Nations and Regions articles – Page 114
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NewsPanel named to choose regional news pilots
Fru Hazlitt, Stewart Purvis and former Ofcom deputy chair Richard Hooper are among those who will help decide which companies win the right to produce the forthcoming independent regional news pilots on ITV.
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NewsGeorge Gently heads to North East
BBC1 drama Inspector George Gently will be shot in the North East for the first time after securing a £150,000 injection from NFM’s North East Content Fund.
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NewsCosgrove rebuts TV 'failure' claims
Claims that Channel 4 “failed to deliver” for the TV industry in Scotland have been rebutted by the channel’s head of nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove.
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NewsMSPs to discuss Scottish broadcasting
Channel 4’s head of the nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove is to appear before Holyrood’s Culture Committee to discuss the state of broadcasting in Scotland.
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NewsUTV joins race for Welsh news pilot
Northern Ireland ITV franchisee UTV has joined forces with Welsh News publisher NWN media to make a bid for running the independently funded news consortium scheme pilot project for Wales.
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NewsGrade: ITV could drop regional news
ITV’s outgoing executive chairman Michael Grade has warned that regional news could be dropped completely from the broadcaster’s schedule if a Conservative government overturned Ofcom’s regional news pilot scheme.
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NewsITV Leeds to get £5m revamp
ITV’s Kirkstall Road studios in Leeds are set for a £5.2m revamp that will move Emmerdale’s production facilities into the mothballed site and introduce high definition facilities.
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NewsNews presenter drops tribunal proceedings against ITV
West Country news presenter Jemma Woodman has dropped tribunal proceedings against ITV after accusing her former employers of “hanging her out to dry”.
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Job fears for regional ITV news staff
The ITV regional journalists who work in areas that will get pilot regional news consortium schemes next year have had no guarantees that their jobs will be safe.
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NewsTyne Tees and Border to get regional news pilot
The England regional news consortium will be based in the North East regions of Tyne Tees and Border, the government has confirmed.
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NewsAziz files £5m lawsuit against ITV
A local newsreader is suing ITV for £5m on the grounds of race, sex and age discrimination.
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NewsThree join forces for ITV news north-east bid
Indie Ten Alps has joined forces with newspaper group Trinity Mirror and the Press Association in a bid to have the North East of England chosen as the third regional TV news pilot scheme area.
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NewsTen Alps to lobby for NI news pilot
Ten Alps is lobbying Northern Ireland MPs to pressure the Government to fund a low-cost online news pilot after the nation was frozen out of plans to support regional news for the ITV network.
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NewsITV news pilots set for April 2010
Independently financed regional news pilot schemes on the ITV network could begin as early as April next year.
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NewsIanucci wins Bafta Scotland awards
Armando Ianucci and Peter Capaldi picked up a hat trick of awards at the Bafta Scotland Awards for political satire In the Loop, on a night that also saw prizes awarded to BBC drama New Town and actor Robert Carlyle.
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NewsJason Horton to head BBC South
The BBC has hired Jason Horton as its new head of BBC South, replacing Mike Hapgood who retires at the end of the year.
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NewsTinopolis poised to buy Pioneer
Welsh production giant Tinopolis Group is on the brink of buying Pioneer Productions - its first acquisition since going private in summer 2008.
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NewsBBC's Gaelic channel under review
The BBC Trust is to consider whether Gaelic TV channel BBC Alba should get a Freeview slot, as part of a review of the service launched today.
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NewsBBC could drop WoCC for Salford kids move
The BBC is looking at temporarily reducing or even scrapping the in-house guarantee for children’s content when it moves key departments to Salford.
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Behind The ScenesNorthern Ireland: the window of opportunity
After years in the commissioning cold, the promise of more network series has rallied the Northern Irish indie community. But is there a pot of gold waiting?