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NewsPEER POLL: Radio consolidation
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Is consolidation in the radio market good for listener choice?
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NewsTelewest buys Sit-Up TV
Telewest has bought TV retailer and movie channel operator Sit-Up TV, in a deal worth over£194m.
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NewsBBC staff names strike days
The BBC is to be hit with four days of strikes, after unions voted for a series of 24-hour walk-outs.
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NewsITV1 cleans up with the Soap Awards
ITV1's The British Soap Awardsmanaged to hit an audience high of 8.9 million (41%) at 10pm helping the broadcaster to its best peaktime performance of the year so far.
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Promotion opening
Equipment company Promotion Hire has been opened up for business by ex-Video Europe staff. Joint owners Duncan Martin and Miles Standish will launch the company from Monday when Standish has completed his notice period at Video Europe. The Kennington-based company will offer broadcast production and post-production kit. It is currently ...
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MPC takes on two
The Moving Picture Company has appointed two vfx operators, Emmy award-winning operator Ludo Fealy and compositor Franck Lambertz. Fealy joins from fellow Soho vfx house Glassworks where he won an Emmy for his contribution on TV miniseries Dreamkeeper. Fealy starts next week. Lambertz has recently worked ...
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Pepper VFX move
Covent Garden facility Pepper has appointed senior vfx artist Dolores McGinley to replace freelance vfx artist Jamie Russell. McGinley will work on Flame creating visual effects for drama, film, title sequences and commercials. She has been freelancing for the past two years and has worked on projects including ...
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Xfm sheds London and national listeners
GCap-media owned Xfm continued to lose adult listeners in London and has lost adult digital listeners nationwide. Its weekly adult audience in the capital now stands at 517,000, down from 535,000 last quarter, and its audience share also dropped, from 1.8% to 1.6%. Digital listenership also dropped 42,000 from last ...
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Le Grys moves on
Frontline Television has appointed Phillipa Le Grys from duplication facility TC Soho to work in new business development. Le Grys had previously worked for Design Weekmagazine.
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MacKenzie poised to quit Wireless Group
Kelvin MacKenzie is set to leave TalkSport-owner The Wireless Group if ITV broadcaster Ulster Television's£98.2m bid is successful.
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GCap reveals a slump in sales
Ralph Bernard, the head of the newly merged Capital and GWR group has admitted that publicity surrounding the merger may have had a negative impact on sales.
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Gavin to head Odeon
BBC Worldwide former chief executive Rupert Gavin has landed the chief executive's job at Odeon and UCI, Europe's largest cinema chain. The news comes 10 months after Gavin left BBC Worldwide amid speculation he would launch a bid for the BBC's commercial arm. He begins in mid-June.
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Fun FM for Robinson
Former Disney branded channels chief Paul Robinson is joining new kids radio station Fun FM as a non-executive director. The GCap and Hit Entertainment joint-venture digital station launches this week in London, Swindon and West Wiltshire, Reading, Bath and Bristol. It is also bidding for the Solent licence and the ...
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Lime hires flame op
Lime has poached Flame operator Paul Marangos from vfx house The Mill as the M2-backed company attempts to establish itself in the high-end market. Senior Flame operator and visual effects artist Marangos will start at Lime on 1 June and work on commercials and broadcast work, including idents and graphics. ...
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Murphy's Law post Farmed out
The Farm Group has posted the new series of Murphy's Law, Tiger Aspect Productions' police drama for BBC1. Produced by Jemma Rodgers, the series features James Nesbitt playing undercover copper Tommy Murphy who targets criminals by infiltrating underground crime rings. Colourist Aidan Farrell graded the series ...
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Greer and Gervais head to Edinburgh
Germaine Greer and Ricky Gervais have been confirmed for headline events at this year's Edinburgh TV Festival. Greer has agreed to give the Alternative MacTaggart Lecture at the festival, while Gervais and The Office co-writer Stephen Merchant will be interviewed by Mark Lawson. This year's event runs from 26 to ...
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Street-Porter to front women's doc
Janet Street-Porter is to argue that women have never had it so bad in a documentary called Desperate Womenordered by Channel 4 editor of factual entertainment Nav Raman. The 60-minute show is being made by North One Television for transmission later this year. North One is ...
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Xfm DJ nets Sonys
Xfm DJ Christian O'Connell took three awards at the Sony Radio Academy Awards on Monday (9 May). He won two golds for his breakfast show, taking breakfast show of the year and best entertainment awards. He also won the competition award for Christian O'Connell's Rock School. ...
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Skin creates new look for poker
Skin has designed the brand identity for the new GameInTV channel Pokerzone. Designer/director Matt White aimed to create a look that would appeal to both the poker player and the casual viewer and would stand alone as a television brand by avoiding the clichéd images of face cards or green ...
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Company gets ITV order
ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott has commissioned Shamelessproducer Company Pictures to make a two-part thriller starring Stephen Tompkinson.