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NewsBBC World Service braces itself for budget cuts
The BBC is preparing to drop some of its international radio services in line with an expected cut to the World Service budget.
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NewsBBC calls up Libero replay technology for World Cup
The BBC is beefing up its replay technology ahead of this month’s World Cup to show 360-degree rotating freeze-frames of incidents using actual footage rather than computer graphics.
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NewsRoux to train service staff for BBC2 series
Michel Roux is hoping to do for front-of-house restaurant staff what Jamie Oliver did for chefs in a major series for BBC2.
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NewsNew BBC social networking rules warn against political bias
The BBC has clamped down on its employees’ social networking activity, asking programming staff not to reveal anything on the likes of Facebook or Twitter that may betray their political allegiances.
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NewsViva commissions pop and celebrity magazine show
MTV’s Freeview entertainment channel Viva has ordered a tongue-in-cheek music and celebrity magazine series.
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NewsC4 faces diversity criticism
Historian Dr Robert Beckford has launched a stinging attack on Channel 4’s “pathological” attitude towards ethnic-minority content, while a raft of producers have voiced fears that the broadcaster is moving backwards in terms of multicultural output and working relationships.
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NewsShine hires Discovery exec to lead business development unit
Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group has hired Discovery’s Alden Mitchell and Channel 4’s Lucinda Hicks to help form a group-wide global business development unit.
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NewsITV to stream mobile services for World Cup
ITV is capitalising on the mobile boom by launching apps to stream its content and provide access to catch-up service ITV Player.
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NewsNine in running for rights to show WRC
Nine broadcasters including the BBC, ITV, Sky Sports and UKTV are considering making bids to broadcast the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) for the next three years.
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NewsViewers unhappy with rigidity of election debates
BBC viewers want political leaders to get “more of a grilling” during the next prime ministerial debates.
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NewsTwo-screen takes off as 450,000 play along with Drop online
The online game that accompanies Channel 4’s Endemol gameshow Million Pound Drop Live was played by almost half a million people while the show was on air last week.
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NewsC4 kicks off search for next 11 O’Clock Show
Channel 4 is planning a stripped successor to The 11 O’Clock Show to launch new talent, and has put a six-month production contract out to tender.
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NewsFru Hazlitt to join ITV
ITV has appointed former GCap Media chief executive Fru Hazlitt following Rupert Howell’s decision to leave the company at the end of July.
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NewsZodiak deal transforms RDF
New Zodiak Entertainment chief executive David Frank is eyeing rapid growth in the Far East and South America in a bid to turn the group into a global production empire on the scale of Endemol or FremantleMedia
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NewsCorrie postponed after Cumbria murders
Coronation Street was last night replaced by a repeat of Harry Hill’s TV Burp in the wake of the Cumbrian shootings.
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NewsITFC trials digital courier service with The Farm
Asset management, QC and subtitling service ITFC is testing a digital delivery network with The Farm with the aim of removing tape from programme distribution.
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NewsBow Tie in Welsh Assembly deal
Bow Tie Television has won the contract to broadcast live proceedings from the National Assembly for Wales, beating incumbent facilities group Barcud Derwen in the competitive bid.
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NewsProcam launches sister facility focused on 3D
A sister facility to hire shop Procam Television has opened, catering for stereo 3D TV, features, commercials and event visuals.
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NewsPanasonic twin-lens P2 debuts
Panasonic’s twin-lens P2 camera has been used in action for the first time, capturing elements of the live 3D broadcast of the French Open tennis.
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NewsVideo content at heart of Radio 1 website revamp
BBC Radio 1 will overhaul its website later this year, with a focus on rich video content and audience interactivity via social networks.