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NewsCity takes heart from digital listening surge
City analysts have heralded the increase in digital radio listening revealed in this quarter's Rajars as a positive sign for the future of commercial radio.
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NewsTalent hires BBC producer
Talent Television has bolstered its entertainment team with the addition of Dinah Gray as development executive for factual entertainment.
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NewsGCap attacked over 'awful' Rajars
GCap Media's recovery plan has come under fire after Rajar results that analysts at Merrill Lynch described as 'awful'.
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NewsRadio rookies help Kiss FM beat Capital
Rookie breakfast presenting duo Rickie and Melvin helped Kiss FM overtake GCap's 95.8 Capital Radio as the third most popular commercial radio station in London with a 4.5% market share to Capital's 4.1%.
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NewsBroadcast Letters - 24 August 2007
Letters to the editor from the issue of broadcast dated 24 August.
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NewsBBC2 focuses on religion
BBC2 is to track the history of the often fraught relationship between Christianity and Islam in a three-part documentary series from Blakeway and CTVC.
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NewsTouch to expose kindergarten competition
Discovery-owned US cable network TLC has commissioned UK indie Touch Productions to document parents' efforts to get their children into their preferred kindergartens in New York.
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Wildlife series for Cineflix and Tigress
Cineflix and Tigress Productions have been commissioned to produce a major new wildlife series for a trio of broadcasters.
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NewsGoldenballs extended
ITV1 has thrown its weight behind daytime gameshow Goldenballs, ordering 60 x 60-minute new episodes from Endemol subsidiary Initial.
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NewsCBeebies orders comedy, animation and pop
CBeebies has ordered a trio of high-profile shows: a live-action comedy, an animation series and an interactive music show presented by Carrie and David Grant.
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NewsBBC4 doc to air unseen Bolan footage
BBC4 is to mark the 30th anniversary of Marc Bolan's death with a documentary featuring unseen performance and interview footage of the glam rock star at his peak.
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NewsCity sceptical over Virgin Radio float
The City has welcomed the appointment of former Chrysalis Group chief executive Richard Huntingford as non-executive chairman at Virgin Radio, but remains unconvinced by the company's plans to float this autumn.
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ITV beats share drop with hopes for CRR
After the steep declines on most global indices last week - prompted by concerns about a credit squeeze in the US - the London markets enjoyed a partial recovery in the early part of the week.
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NewsBBC2 orders working class culture doc
Bafta-nominated documentary makers Ursula Macfarlane and Henry Singer are to tackle abortion and white working class culture in hard-hitting films from Century Films for BBC2.
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NewsPioneer moves into drama
Pioneer Productions is to set up a drama unit headed by Sean Grundy, who directed the company's forthcoming drama-documentary Hindenburg.
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NewsVirgin 1 signs Hat Trick web deal
Virgin Media TV has signed a deal with Hat Trick Productions to help launch the Virgin 1 website, with the indie showcasing new content and using its own talent to encourage user-generated content.
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NewsDigital Focus: Xtra Factor boosts ITV2 share
With football returning last week, and The X Factorback on ITV1 this week, all's well in the world of television.
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NewsObjective picks up trio of commissions
Objective Productions has marked its acquisition by super-indie All3Media by securing three commissions from BBC1 and digital channel E4.
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NewsBravo calls in The A-Team
Bravo is to screen all 98 episodes of 1980s action series The A-Team after picking up the rights from NBC Universal.
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NewsIWC sets up ad-funded content arm
RDF-owned indie IWC Media has created a commercials and branded content division to move into producing ad-funded programming and content.