All articles by Robin Parker – Page 158
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NewsBBC kicks off multimedia news era
The BBC has launched its multimedia newsroom today with its boss Peter Horrocks admitting it faces questions over how to cover fewer stories in-depth while still retaining the distinct qualities of TV, radio and web news.
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NewsOnline ad measurement moves step closer
Broadcasters have moved a step closer to measuring the effects of online advertising after joining forces to develop a common standard for streamed, simulcast and downloaded content.
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NewsNew friction.tv webcast for Tory leader
Tory leader David Cameron is to make weekly video webcasts on a Conservative-branded channel on video debating website friction.tv.
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NewsIndies face tough regime over trust
The trust in TV crisis has prompted the BBC and Channel 4 to try to rewrite their contracts with indies, in a bid to make producers more responsible for their output - including financially.
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NewsBBC Horizon explores execution
Former Conservative MP Michael Portillo is to hunt for a humane method of execution in an edition of the BBC’s science strand Horizon.
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NewsC4’s First Cut airs new talent
Channel 4 is lining up films from Raw Television, Century Films, Talkback Thames, Renegade Pictures and Eleven Films for its new primetime documentary strand for up-and-coming directors.
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NewsBBC redundancy hunt begins
The BBC has kicked off its search for 1,000 volunteers for redundancy within news and Vision Studios, with interested staff asked to come forward by 19 November.
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NewsHadlow leads the field to be new BBC1 controller
BBC4 controller Janice Hadlow has emerged as a strong contender for the BBC1 controller job after Jay Hunt and Richard Deverell ruled themselves out of the running.
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NewsDoc to follow lives of teens in Baghdad
BBC2 is to follow four ordinary Iraqi boys as they come of age in Baghdad for a feature-length documentary from Renegade Pictures and StorylabTV.
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NewsBrailsford is new Shine features chief
Shine has promoted features editor Sara Brailsford to take over as head of features from John Silver, who is leaving at the end of the year to set up his own indie.
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NewsCarbon’s Jump series to go global
The indie behind Channel 4 documentaries Jump London and Jump Britain is to take the format to the global stage after signing a co-production deal with Lonely Planet.
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NewsBewitched set for UK remake
Cult US 1960s sitcom Bewitched is set for a British makeover by My Hero creator Paul Mendelson.
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NewsC4 and Kew plan online cures guide
Channel 4 has teamed up with Kew Gardens to build an online repository of alternative medicines and folklore cures to accompany its upcoming documentary Medicine Men.
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NewsClements under investigation
Police are investigating the alleged theft of emails involving former IWC creative director Alan Clements following last week’s court hearing.
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NewsBBC bags Carling Cup
Live Carling Cup and Coca-Cola Championship football will return to the BBC for the first time in decades after the corporation paid£264m with Sky Sports for the rights.
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NewsBBC redundancies to start in December
The BBC is set to begin making redundancies as soon as 1 December following a meeting between news executives and broadcasting unions yesterday.
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NewsBBC to air RDF’s Queen doc
The BBC will broadcast RDF’s controversial documentary on the Queen before Christmas.
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NewsBBC4 to explore parallel universe
Mark Everett, lead signer with US rock group Eels, will uncover the story of his late father, a quantum physicist who predicted the existence of parallel universes, for a BBC4 documentary.
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NewsOfcom clears C4 over Emily Parr outburst
Channel 4 was justified in broadcasting housemate Emily Parr’s use of a racist term in the last series of Big Brother, Ofcom has ruled.
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NewsWatson: 'ITV made me scapegoat'
Paul Watson has accused ITV of making him a scapegoat in the row over the Malcolm and Barbara: Love’s Farewell documentary, claiming the subsequent inquiry was “mental torture”.