All News articles – Page 2548
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NewsITV orders six-part run of DCI Banks
ITV is bringing back Left Bank Pictures’ DCI Banks for a 6 x 60-minute run following the success of its recent pilot.
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NewsHorse & Country assets sold as company enters administration
Horse & Country TV has been put into pre-pack administration and the assets bought out by a new incarnation of the broadcaster, H&CTV.
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NewsAbsolute challenges BBC to provide archive access
Absolute Radio has called on the BBC to make its archive of radio shows available for commercial rivals to buy.
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News5 Live orders content from northern indies
BBC Radio 5 Live has ordered seven one-off docs from radio indies from the north of England ahead of the extension of its £40,000 fund for a second year.
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NewsC5 links payment to results
Northern & Shell is preparing a radical payment system for Channel 5 that will see indies work for it on a performance-related basis.
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NewsNutopia takes celebs back to their youth for C4
Nutopia, the indie run by Jane Root and Laura Franses, is to take the likes of Boy George and Michael Barrymore back to their teenage homes for Channel 4.
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NewsDCMS budget cut by £300 million
Chancellor George Osborne has slashed the budget of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) from around £1.4 billion to £1.1billion
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NewsFunding deal 'firm but fair', say BBC bosses
The new licence fee settlement is firm but fair and welcome when considering the “unprecedented” economic state of the UK, the heads of the BBC have said.
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NewsC5 given all clear on quotas
Channel 5 has been given the all clear by Ofcom following its acquisition by Northern & Shell.
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NewsChello Zone extends Freesat footprint
Chello Zone has finished shifting its portfolio of six channels onto Freesat with the rollout of CBS Reality+1, along with an EMEA crime doc acquisition from Harmony Entertainment.
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NewsS4C seeks judicial review over BBC merger
Welsh language broadcaster S4C is launching a judicial review of the government’s “ill-conceived” plans for the BBC to fund its operations.
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NewsPSBs warn of 'modest' product placement revenues
Channel 4 and Channel 5 have claimed that the profit-boosting benefits of product placement should not be “overplayed”.
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NewsCall to decriminalise licence fee dodging
Failure to pay the television licence fee should not be a criminal offence, a Tory MP has argued.
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NewsUnions to challenge BBC funding cuts
Unions have attacked as “appalling” news about funding cuts to the BBC, and vowed to challenge the decision.
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NewsBBC licence fee frozen for six years
The BBC is to have its licence fee frozen at the current rate of £145.50 until 2017 – a 16% cut in real terms - and will be required to fund the World Service.
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NewsEnnals: DAB challenges remain
RADIO FESTIVAL: Coverage, cars, consumer electronics, content and communication must all be addressed if digital radio is to reach a tipping point according to Ford Ennals, chief executive of Digital Radio UK.
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NewsFifty Fifty invests in Unity and Alchemist
Soho’s Fifty Fifty Post Production has bought a Snell and Wilcox HD Alchemist frame rate converter and a 16 terabyte fibre network Avid Unity.
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NewsMedia firms back 2012 broadcast centre plan
Three technology and facilities companies have given public backing to proposals to turn the 2012 Olympic Broadcast and Press centres in Hackney into a ‘district’ for creative companies after the games.
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NewsTechnicolor upgrades for stereo 3D
Technicolor Creative Services London has upgraded its Digital Intermediate (DI) capabilities with the addition of a full stereo 3D workflow for film and TV projects.
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NewsBBC poaches C5 strategy boss
Channel 5’s Kieran Clifton has been poached to head strategy at the BBC’s Future, Media and Technology division, as it prepares to launch a paid training scheme to attract new talent to Salford.