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NewsBradshaw urged to "strong arm" watchdog over Canvas
The House of Lords communications committee has urged culture secretary Ben Bradshaw to “strong arm” the Competition Commission into approving Project Canvas.
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NewsBurns victim to host Five News
Five News is to hand presenting duties to a man with extensive facial burns in a bid to generate debate around disfigurement.
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NewsiPlayer honoured by RTS
The BBC iPlayer has been compared to innovations including the steam engine, jet engine and Viagra by the RTS judges who honoured its creators at an awards ceremony last night.
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NewsiPlayer wins RTS Innovation award
The BBC iPlayer was last night described as being as important an invention as the steam engine after being handed the prestigious Judges award at the RTS Innovation Awards.
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NewsPeake to play "first modern lesbian" in BBC2 drama
Criminal Justice’s Maxine Peake is to play 19th century landowning lesbian Anne Lister, in a BBC2 dramatisation of her “painfully honest” diaries.
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NewsBragg returns to the BBC
Melvyn Bragg, the longstanding face of arts coverage at ITV, is to return to BBC television where he started his career nearly 50 years ago.
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NewsBBC promotes press chief
BBC head of press Donald Steel has been promoted to a role in which he will advise senior managers in times of “reputational crises” and on the handling of major announcements.
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NewsBBC reschedules the Apprentice
The BBC has rescheduled The Apprentice to avoid clashing with a general election and the show will now go head-to-head with the final series of Channel 4’s Big Brother, it has been confirmed.
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NewsOfcom deals blow to BBC HD plans
Moves by the BBC to copyright programmes held on high definition (HD) Freeview players look unlikely to succeed after Ofcom asked the corporation for more information on the purpose of the system.
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NewsTitchmarsh set for 5pm move
The Alan Titchmarsh Show will take on the likes of The Weakest Link and Deal or No Deal next year, as ITV moves it to a 5pm slot.
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NewsBBC2 gets Argumental
Dave panel show Argumental is to make its terrestrial debut on BBC2 - the first time the broadcaster has picked up an entertainment format from UKTV.
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NewsHulu and ITV edge closer to VoD deal
A highly anticipated deal between commercial broadcaster ITV and US video on demand service Hulu is moving closer to conclusion, it has been reported.
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NewsGable quits Air Post Production
Air Post Production managing director Dan Gable has left the North London facilities company in order to “pursue other opportunities.”
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NewsRent adds raft of Sony camcorders
The Farm Group’s broadcast hire division Rent is celebrating its second birthday by adding a raft of new Sony camcorders to its inventory.
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NewsAdams Trainor re-named
Design agency Adams Trainor, famous for doing branding and re-branding work for broadcasters, has done a re-naming job on itself by becoming ‘AT the creative agency’.
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NewsSky debuts live TV iPhone app
BSkyB is making its mobile TV service available on the Apple iPhone after developing a live streaming app for the hugely popular multi-media handset.
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NewsForrester names top online video companies
Forrester, the US research company, has named Ooyala and Brightcove as its top online video platform vendors.
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NewsMackey and Allen added to UK Screen board
UK Screen Association members have voted two new directors onto the trade body board for 2009/2010.
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NewsGenArts snaps up Particle Illusion
GenArts has acquired Particle Illusion along with Wondertouch, the company that developed it.
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NewsThompson reassures stars over Mock the Week censure
BBC director general Mark Thompson has given reassurances to key corporation talent that Mock the Week can still be “edgy”, as he was quizzed last night over a BBC Trust ruling regarding a joke about athlete Rebecca Adlington.