All News articles – Page 3458
-
News
Immedia bailed out
Immedia Broadcasting, the instore radio company set up by former Radio 1 DJ Bruno Brooks, has been given a new lease of life following a deal with Northcliffe Retail. The company, which reported growing losses in the first half of the year to August of£273,000, will provide instore radio services ...
-
News
Broadcast Awards call
Broadcast is searching for the post house of the year to be announced at the Broadcast Awards in January.
-
News
Ascent offers iTV
Ascent Media Network Services Europe and Chellomedia have paired up to offer interactive TV (iTV) capabilities at Ascent's London-based playout facilities. Interactive content will be encoded for multiple platforms and inserted at the point of playout. The offering is due to kick off in November.
-
News
UK firm develops artificial presenter
Advanced media development company Televirtual has claimed it has built TV's first synthetic broadcaster, METman, an authentically voiced artificial speech engine.
-
News
BBC profiles Ground Zero architect
The BBC is to follow world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind as he travels the world and develops a new building for the site of the World Trade Center.
-
News
Angel buys Neve
Angel Studios - built and owned by music library specialist De Wolfe Music - has undergone recent refurbishments installing AMS Neve consoles in two studios and a Euphonix digital console. Recent work at Angel includes recording the score for the BBC's new adaptation of Bleak House.
-
News
Fremantle sells American Idol to Japan
Fremantle International Distribution has sold the forthcoming series five of American Idol to Japan in a move executives hope will lead to the country producing its own version of the talent phenomenon. It will launch on Fox Japan in January. The package includes a number of other titles, including the ...
-
News
All Out probes World Health Organisation
Manchester-based radio indie All Out Productions has won a 2 x 30-minute commission from the BBC World Service for an investigative report on the World Health Organisation's (WHO) HIV programme. Presenter Nigel Wrench will examine why the WHO failed in its pledge to treat 3 million HIV sufferers by 2005. ...
-
News
Five airs bird flu doc
Five is to bring the battle against bird flu to UK screens after acquiring a National Geographic and Electric Pictures co-production with the working title Race Against the Killer Flu. The documentary uses CGI and re-enactments to explain how a bird flu pandemic could develop and what its impact would ...
-
News
Robinson doc leads strand on ageing
Time Team host Tony Robinson has been signed up by Channel 4 to present a personal documentary about his 89-year-old mother. In Me and My Mum Robinson reveals the dilemmas he faced putting his mother into a care home. The Love Production film will air as part of a strand ...
-
News
Fantastic Four ride again
Cartoon Network Europe is co-producing a new 2D and 3D animated version of classic comic strip Fantastic Four. Made with Paris-based indie Moonscoop, French broadcaster M6 and Marvel Comics Heroes, the new series will be based on the same premise as the original strip but with a more playful tone. ...
-
News
Smith and Jones go head to head again
Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones are re-forming their comedy double act for a new BBC1 series. The six-part series, called The Smith & Jones Sketchbook, will comprise classic clips from their Alas Smith and Jones series, which launched in 1984 and ran until 1998. The series will include the ...
-
News
ITV4 competes for male attention
ITV's latest multichannel venture, ITV4, will launch next week into an already competitive market for male viewers.
-
News
C4 showcases winning short films online
The Channel 4 Ideas Factory film and video initiative New Shoots is to showcase its winners' work online on 1 November.
-
News
Talkback seeks Aztec gold for C4
Maverick author DBC Pierre is to attempt to track down the missing treasure of the Aztec Indians for Channel 4.
-
News
BBC3 goes to school for a year
BBC3 is to spend a year filming youngsters at an inner-city school as they prepare for adult life.
-
News
BBC3 drops news
BBC3 is axing its nightly news bulletin and ploughing the money saved into factual programmes. The 7 O'Clock News will be taken off air from 2 December, after Secretary of State for culture, media and sport Tessa Jowell gave the channel permission to drop it. The channel's hourly 60 Seconds ...
-
News
Hartswood makes autism drama for ITV1
Hartswood Films is making a drama for ITV1 based on the true story of an autistic boy who learned to communicate through his dog. The two-hour film, After Thomas, is to be executive produced by Hartswood's Beryl Vertue and is produced by Elaine Cameron. The drama is now in pre-production ...
-
News
1Xtra head takes over R1 playlist
Radio 1 has given responsibility for its playlists and music policy to George Ergatoudis, head of music at sister digital station 1Xtra. He replaces Alex Jones-Donelly, who left the station in August after eight years in the role to join music giant EMI. Ergatoudis had been head of music at ...
-
News
Is this the revolution?
Are changes to governance at the BBC more window-dressing than genuine transformation, asks Lisa Campbell, Deputy Editor.