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Give us the WoCC, radio indies tell BBC management
Radio indies are urging the BBC to extend the Window of Creative Commission to its radio output.
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Lime staffs up to diversify with factual division
Lime Pictures has set up a dedicated factual division in an attempt to build on its MTV glossy reality series Living on the Edge.
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NewsMannion questions Ofcom's plans for news
ITV News editor-in-chief David Mannion has questioned whether independent regional news consortia could produce stories to a network standard, and believes that ITN is best placed to take over any new regional news contracts.
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BBC1 will profile life of World War vet Harry Patch
The modern-day life of Harry Patch, the last surviving fighting soldier of the First World War, will be profiled in a one-off documentary for BBC1.
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NewsRaw wins first US order from new NY office
Banged Up Abroad producer Raw TV has opened an office in New York and has already secured its first US commission.
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Gyles Brandreth to host BBC2 quiz show Knowitalls
BBC2 is to air a quiz show without any questions. Knowitalls will be hosted by politician-turned-Countdown regular Gyles Brandreth.
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Suchet on board Orient Express for ITV1 history doc
Life will imitate art for Poirot actor David Suchet as he takes the Orient Express across Europe for an ITV1 documentary.
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NewsBBC2 to look at key to success for John Lewis
BBC2 will look at John Lewis’s 150-year history and how the department store business is weathering the current recession in a documentary series.
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NewsNBC sets out major overhaul of UK channels
NBC Universal is planning a major UK shake-up that could see most of the channels it acquired from Sparrowhawk Media disappear.
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NewsDRG in deal with Motive TV to form sales division
Digital Rights Group has created a new sales division it will operate alongside its other brands after signing an exclusive distribution deal with Motive Television.
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NewsITV cuts overtake £150m of Fincham's warning
ITV director of television, multi-channels and online Peter Fincham warned last year that ITV1’s schedule would be decimated if £150m was pulled from its programming budget – £10m less than the total cuts now pledged across ITV’s channels by the end of 2011.
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NewsBBC staff angry at £10m Discovery commission
BBC Natural History Unit staff are upset after its former head, Keith Scholey, won a £10m-plus commission from Discovery with an idea similar to one they also pitched.
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NewsITV's future technology department faces axe
The man behind ITV’s push to embed adverts in online content and develop its technological abilities is facing redundancy as part of ITV’s cost-cutting measures.
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Ant and Dec to speak at Edinburgh
Ant and Dec are to deliver the Alternative MacTaggart speech at this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival.
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Low cost radio ads need push
RADIO 3.0: The Central Office of Information’s director of channel integration management Corrine Purton has attacked the radio industry for not plugging “low entry cost advertising” when it competes with TV.
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Radio execs clash over DAB
RADIO 3.0: Two radio executives have clashed over a discussion on DAB after DRDB chief executive Tony Moretta claimed the digital medium had a sound future because “people like to listen to devices that look like radios”.
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Animal Planet hooks second Icon fish series
Bristol-based indie Icon Films has been commissioned by US cable channel Animal Planet to make a second run of its fishing adventure series, River Monsters.
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Sky meets The Pacific
Sky Movies has acquired HBO’s The Pacific, the big budget WWII drama from the creators of Band of Brothers.
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NewsHadlow plans to give BBC2 feel-good factor
BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow is planning to give the channel an “optimistic” overhaul and aims to put more firepower behind its arts coverage.
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BBCW launches factual YouTube channel
BBC Woldwide has launched a factual YouTube channel after extending its deal with the video-sharing site.