All articles by Robin Parker – Page 117
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Brass joins Endemol
Former Fremantle US chief operating officer and ex-head of TV at 19 Entertainment Martha Brass has joined Endemol as deputy chief operating officer.
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NewsNew distribution division at Simply Media
Simply Media has set up a new division to help indies distribute their content on platforms away from TV channels.
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NewsC4 names legal head
Channel 4 has promoted deputy head of legal and compliance Prash Naik to head of his department following the departure of Jan Tomalin.
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NewsBBC Scotland to air interactive drama
BBC Scotland is developing a cross-platform crime drama in which three-quarters of the action will take place online.
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NewsRDF to make Bebo showbiz magazine
Social network Bebo has commissioned RDF Digital to make a weekly magazine show rounding up professional and UGC content on the site.
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NewsOfcom names new chairman
Ofcom has appointed its former Consumer Panel chair Colette Bowe as its new chairman.
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NewsOne in five jobs slashed at C4
Almost 200 Channel 4 staff are out of a job this Christmas after the broadcaster accelerated its redundancy programme.
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NewsIndies fear BBC pressure to cover own legal costs
Documentary makers have raised fears that the BBC is trying to force them to deliver programmes that are fully legally compliant rather than use its in-house lawyers.
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NewsBBC slammed over drama launches
The BBC has defended spending almost£164,000 on four drama launches during 2008, a year in which it cut 2,000 jobs.
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NewsBBC Resources staff win reprieve
BBC Resources staff in Birmingham and Bristol are to escape compulsory redundancy despite the commercial facilities company's plan to cease trading at the two cities.
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NewsC4/Five merger back on table
The possibility of a£500m merger of Five and Channel 4 has re-emerged as Ofcom approaches the final stages of weighing up Channel 4's future funding.
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NewsMcCloud and Snow urge Ofcom to save C4
Two of Channel 4's highest profile presenters have urged Ofcom to find a way of securing the broadcaster's future.
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NewsC4 rubbishes BBC iPlayer plans
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan has rubbished the BBC's claims of the benefits of sharing iPlayer technology among all public service broadcasters.
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NewsCBBC to run news animation pilot
CBBC is to put an animated twist on news in a cross-platform Newsround spin-off to be produced by digital company LittleLoud.
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NewsFive wades in to step up crisis over terms of trade
Indies are facing a major battle to hang on to their terms of trade after Five joined ITV in calling for them to be ripped up.
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NewsSainsbury's show leads C4 fact ent slate
Sainsbury's staff will try radical ideas to transform the company's stores in one of Channel 4's major factual entertainment series for next year.
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FeaturesWhich way will Kangaroo jump?
The big three terrestrial broadcasters have just days to respond to Competition Commission concerns over Kangaroo's potential impact on the UK's VoD market. Robin Parker reports.
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NewsBBC names current affairs commissioner
Channel 4 News commissioning editor Fiona Campbell is to return to the BBC to oversee current affairs commissioning from indies.
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NewsC4 orders more The World's... And Me
Comedian Mark Dolan is to meet more unusual people from around the globe in a second series of his Channel 4 show The World's ... And Me.