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NewsFreudenstein leaves BSkyB for native Oz
BSkyB chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein is to leave the company. Freudenstein, who has been with Sky since 1999 and last year spearheaded the launch of the broadcaster's 19 mobile channels, has decided to return to his native Australia but has not announced his next move. A Sky spokesman said ...
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Ofcom bonus cash
More than half the staff at media regulator Ofcom were handed a bonus last year as part of a£1.2m payout. Ofcom employed 698 full-time staff in the 12 months to 9 December and 393 were given bonuses or performance-related payments. Only 59 staff members were not eligible for a bonus ...
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Producer to Blue
Post-production house Blue has nabbed agency producer Angela Parkinson from advertising agency Publicis to join as a producer. Parkinson will add to the seven-strong production team, focusing on dramas, documentaries and on-air promos.
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Forbidden award
Video streaming specialist Forbidden Technologies has won the RTA award for technology in post-production for its web-based editing facility, FORscene. GMTV, Granada and Nats post-production have used the service - which is used for logging, editing and reviewing content - and Forbidden has forged a reseller partnership with Nats.
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Yoomedia sells Avago
Interactive entertainment group Yoomedia has sold its Avago interactive gambling channel brand and associated intellectual property to gaming operator Gala Group. The deal is worth between£5.1m and£8.05m to Yoomedia, depending on the performance of the channel. Gala will rebrand the Avago channel, and relaunch it by the end of the ...
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Turkey to make own Nanny 911
Nanny 911 , Granada America's hit US reality format, is to be made into local versions in the Middle East and Turkey.
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GI poaches business affairs head from C4
Granada International has poached an executive from Channel 4 International to become its new head of business affairs. Alison Lee, a lawyer who has also worked at BBC Worldwide, will report to Granada International's director of business affairs, Helen Fox-Gladwell. She will oversee all sales and licensing deals and co-production ...
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R1's Parfitt in frame for CBBC post
BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has emerged as a contender for the job of controller of Children's BBC.
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New year resolution
Steven D Wright looks forward to a bumper start to 2006 with a host of new commissioners.
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Generating the future
User-generated content will gradually eat away at the hegemony of conventional broadcasting, writes Stuart Cosgrove.
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Top 100 of 2005
Philip Reevell reflects on a year in which reality shows may have dominated the schedules but the big ratings stories were to be found in drama, with the triumphant return of Doctor Who, and in comedy, as Little Britaintook the ...
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NewsSky One brings in Living TV's Woolfe
Living TV director of television Richard Woolfe has secured the post of Sky One controller, replacing James Baker who has moved to head Sky Interactive.
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NewsTinopolis axes TV Corp name
Tinopolis, the Welsh indie taking over Television Corporation, is hoping chief executive Peter Salmon and director of sport Jeff Foulser will stay on after its£36m reverse takeover is completed.
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NewsITV eyes Jackson for Rosencrantz role
Granada America chief Paul Jackson has emerged as the favourite to replace ITV controller of entertainment Claudia Rosencrantz, who has quit the network after 10 years.
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Thorogood departs ITV daytime
The shake-up in ITV's commissioning structure has claimed one of its first casualties - daytime editor Nick Thorogood.
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IWC hire bolsters BBC factual team
The BBC has poached IWC Media's director of contemporary factual programmes to join its new seven-strong line-up of commissioning executives.
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NewsWoolfe to head Sky One
Living TV director of television Richard Woolfe has been appointed head of Sky One.
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NewsMilne slams BBC's lack of innovation
Former BBC director general Alasdair Milne has slammed the corporation's current performance on drama and comedy and says he sees 'little sense of innovation' in the modern BBC.
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NewsSky Movies to offer pin-protected movies
BSkyB is launching pin-protected movies during its daytime schedule, allowing viewers access to unedited 15-rated films such as The Day After Tomorrowand Layer Cake.
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NewsITV1's Poirot draws 7.4m
ITV1's Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of the Blue Train out-performed BBC1's screening of the Oscar-winning Chicago at 9pm on New Year's Day with 7.4 million (30.2%).