All articles by Robin Parker – Page 147
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NewsHollyoaks to host T4 music show
Bands including The Guillemots and One Night Only are to perform on the set of Hollyoaks for a T4 music special that Channel 4 is considering turning into a returning format.
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NewsITV lands F1 online rights
ITV has won the online rights to stream live coverage of the Formula 1 motor racing season ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix.
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NewsC4 hunts diversity champion
Channel 4 is to give a commissioning editor specific responsibility for multicultural programmes as part of a wider scheme to improve the diversity of its output.
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NewsSony acquires Millionaire owner
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is the latest gameshow format to come under Sony's control after the media group's production arm agreed to buy Dutch indie 2waytraffic.
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NewsBazalgette buys stake in DRM group
Peter Bazalgette has chosen a company that is “part distributor, part rent collector” for web and mobile video clips as the first of his planned investment portfolio of digital start-ups.
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Blinkbox.com to double TV content in new deals
Video download and clips website blinkbox.com is to more than double its TV content ahead of its full launch next month by signing deals with a terrestrial broadcaster and two super-indies.
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NewsC4 to pump£10m into kids output
Channel 4 has ring-fenced£10m to spend on programmes for 10-to 15 year-olds over the next two years - with a flagship drama series set to take centre stage.
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NewsRichards: C4 must flesh out online plan
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards has pledged his support for Channel 4 to remain part publicly funded, but warned that the broadcaster must articulate how it can meet its remit online.
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C4 to recount eyewitness 7/7 stories
Channel 4 is to mark the third anniversary of the 7/7 London bombings with two films from the perspective of members of the public caught up in the events.
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NewsOfcom scraps PSP plans
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards has finally buried the idea of a public service publisher (PSP) after more than three years.
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NewsC4 gets back to Abbey Road
Jazz legend Herbie Hancock is to perform with rising soul star Corinne Bailey Rae in the next series of Channel 4 music strand Live at Abbey Road.
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NewsFive to air 'newsround' on Myspace
Five News is to broadcast a daily youth-oriented news bulletin on a branded MySpace channel.
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Switch calls on viewers to make drama episodes
BBC Switch has commissioned an experimental cross-platform series that will encourage aspiring film-makers to submit their own episodes based on the first few instalments of a drama.
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NewsITV signs with Bebo
ITV is to distribute programmes including acquisition Gossip Girl on Bebo, four months after rival broadcasters signed up to the social network.
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NewsMacKenzie teams with Baz for online venture
Peter Bazalgette and Kelvin MacKenzie are backing a start-up venture that aims to help video content producers to manage their rights on digital platforms.
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NewsReality stars win payout
Contestants on the French version of reality show Temptation Island have won the right to strike and paid overtime following a legal challenge.
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NewsBBC casts Victor 'Spelldrew' in Merlin
Richard Wilson is to star in a 13-part drama about King Arthur and Merlin that BBC1 is lining up for a Saturday teatime slot.
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NewsSecond term for School for Cooks
ITV1 has ordered a second run of RDF daytime cookery show Rosemary Shrager's School for Cooks.
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NewsLee quits Five for C4
Ralph Lee has returned to Channel 4 to head its specialist factual department just six months after joining Five.
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Newsitv.com to break even
ITV Local and itv.com will both break even this year the broadcaster said, as it takes steps to improve its online ad strategy ahead of the launch of cross-industry VoD service Kangaroo.