All articles by Robert Shepherd – Page 13
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UKTV unveils Good Food rebrand
UKTV has licensed the Good Food name from shareholder BBC Worldwide and will use it for its tenth and final channel rebrand when it replaces UKTV Food next month.
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Jane Root resurfaces with new indie
Jane Root has formed her own production company, Nutopia, and has won a major commission from History US.
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Liverpool's City Talk to change format
Ofcom has granted City Talk 105.9 in Liverpool permission to change its format and play music - but has imposed a number of conditions.
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Sky airs Project Canvas objections
BSkyB has attacked the BBC Trust’s decision to not carry out a full market review on the BBC, ITV and BT broadband joint venture Project Canvas.
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Chris Evans scoops two awards at Sonys
BBC2 Radio DJ Chris Evans picked up two gongs at the Sony Radio Academy Awards last night (11 May).
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Global Radio anticipates profits
Global Radio has forecasted steady underlying profits of £31m in the year to March, despite an 18% drop in advertising.
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More than third of UK listens to digital radio
Rajars: Over a third of the UK population now listens to digital radio, according to the latest Rajar figures.
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Commercial radio share drops 40%
Rajars: Commercial radio saw its share of listening drop in the last quarter to 41.6%, according to latest Rajar results.
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Absolute claws back audience
Absolute Radio, which re-branded from Virgin Radio last year, has clawed back some of the audience it lost in its first Rajars but is still down nearly a third-year-on-year.
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Capital's Vaughan retains London breakfast crown
95.8 Capital FM's Johnny Vaughan and Lisa Snowdon have claimed a hat-trick after being crowned number one London commercial breakfast show for the third time in a row.
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Moyles closes gap on Wogan
Rajars: BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles closed the gap on Radio 2 stablemate and breakfast rival Terry Wogan with an audience rise to 7.7m from 7.3m, according to latest Rajar figures.
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Zig Zag builds on Dyer brand with fourth series for Bravo
Zig Zag Productions will send Cockney actor Danny Dyer to live with some of Britain's most feared men in the follow-up to Bravo's best performing commission of 2008.
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Comedy to feature in BBC Radio cricket coverage
BBC Radio has unveiled its plans for the summer of cricket, which includes a six-part comedy hosted by comic Andy Zaltzman.
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Vic Wakeling to retire from BSkyB
Vic Wakeling, BSkyB's managing director, sport and news, is to retire after 20 years at the broadcaster.
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C4 forecasts 18% drop in TV ad revenues
Channel 4 has estimated TV advertising revenues will decrease by 18% in the first half of 2009 and will cut its editorial budget by 10% in a bid to insure itself.
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Bauer and Global lead commercial radio awards
Bauer Radio and Global Radio lead the way in the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards nominations, with 12 and 11 nominations respectively.
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ITV shows seen by 4m using Virgin Media catch-up
ITV shows accessed via Virgin Media's on-demand service attracted 4 million views in their first full month.
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Virgin Media beats forecasts with 7,100 new customers
Virgin Media beat analyst forecasts by adding 7,100 net new customers in the first quarter of 2009.
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Programme chiefs face cull at Global Radio
The programme controller of the Gold network and the programme director of Xfm are understood to be among up to 30 casualties in the latest round of Global Radio job cuts.
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Oprah's McCanns interview to air in UK
Oprah Winfrey's interview with the parents of missing child Madeleine McCann is to be screened in the UK just a day after airing in the US.