All News articles – Page 2805
-
NewsScott extends Heart contract
Harriet Scott has renewed her contract with Heart 106.2 and will continue hosting the breakfast show with Jamie Theakston until 2011.
-
NewsSalmon woos Salford 'backyard'
Peter Salmon, director of BBC North, has appealed to economic interests in the region in a bid to bolster support for the corporation.
-
NewsBBC plans web push for Burgess thriller
Lime Pictures’ digital arm Conker Media has teamed up with controversial teen novelist Melvin Burgess for a cross-platform psychological thriller for BBC Switch.
-
News
CBBC to give kids run of British Museum
CBBC viewers will get the chance to stay overnight in the British Museum, dodging security guards and piecing together mysteries, in a new adventure game show for CBBC.
-
NewsBBC expenses: what the drama team is reading
The new BBC expenses reveal Ben Stephenson and predecessor Jane Tranter to be a well-read and researched pair – claiming for the likes of War and Peace and Catch 22.
-
NewsNew BBC expenses reveal Jay Hunt's £50 sock claim
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt has spent more than £2,000 of licence fee payers’ money on gifts – including £50 on socks for an indie and over £800 of Molton Brown products.
-
NewsBBC boss defends new expenses revelations
BBC chief operating officer Caroline Thomson has defended a second tranche of expenses published today (17 July) stressing that some claims, such as overseas travel, are inevitable and help secure “millions of punds” of co-production investment.
-
NewsStubbs quits BBC for ESPN
BBC sports veteran Ray Stubbs is to front ESPN’s Premier League, with IMG understood to be signed up to produce all studio discussion around the games.
-
NewsSalford move for 55% of BBC Sport managers
More than half of BBC Sport middle managers have now agreed to move to Salford MediaCity in 2011.
-
NewsBradshaw confirmed for RTS convention
New culture secretary Ben Bradshaw and Google chairman Eric Schmidt are to headline this year’s this year’s Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention.
-
NewsBBC interactive TV boss rejects Salford move
Rahul Chakkara, the exec behind interactive TV at the BBC and one of the key drivers of Project Canvas, is believed to be planning to leave the corporation
-
News
BBC's Little Dorrit up for 11 Emmys
The BBC’s adaptation of Little Dorrit and Generation Kill, the HBO Iraq War drama co-produced by Company Pictures, have each scooped 11 nominations in the US Emmy awards.
-
News
Teletext closure brought forward to 2010
Associated Newspapers has brought forward the closure of analogue Teletext services from 2012 to January 2010 next year, following a comprehensive review of the loss-making service.
-
NewsQuestion Time libel suit costs BBC £45,000
The BBC has paid £45,000 in damages to the head of the Muslim Council of Britain after airing claims on Question Time that the organisation implicitly encouraged the killing of British troops.
-
NewsITV1 to screen unaired Jackson footage
ITV1 is to screen previously unaired home video footage of the late pop star Michael Jackson from his friend Uri Geller’s private archive.
-
NewsBBC appoints new news editor
The BBC has named Middle East Bureau editor James Stephenson as editor of its flagship News at Six and Ten bulletins.
-
NewsLyons on defence after 'BBC doormat' sideswipe
A Conservative MP has accused BBC Trust chairman Michael Lyons of being the corporation’s “doormat” during parliamentary questions.
-
NewsThe Bill pulled from STV schedules
STV chiefs have confirmed that The Bill will be pulled from its schedule after 25 years, to make way for more of its own programmes.
-
NewsJo Whiley moves in R1 shake-up
Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman are to leave their weekday slots on BBC Radio 1 in its biggest schedule shake up for five years.
-
NewsMacDonald hires Lamarra for new development role at IWC
IWC Media’s new creative director Adam MacDonald has made his first hiring since joining last month, appointing Tiger Aspect’s Ian Lamarra as head of development for global formats.