All S4C articles – Page 35
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NewsThe Apprentice shows its value for BBC2
BBC2's hit format The Apprenticehas helped give a powerful boost to the channel's Wednesday night performance in what has turned into a fierce ratings battleground with Channel 4.
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NewsOfcom lifts free-to-air rule
Ofcom this week opened the door for more pay-TV services on the Digital Terrestrial TV platform. The regulator has decided to lift a requirement that all channels carried on the digital multiplexes B, C, and D are free to air.
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S4C sells pre-school pair to Al Jazeera
S4C International has sold pre-school series Sali Mali and The Baaasto Al Jazeera's children's channel. The distributor hassold 52 x 5-minute episodes of Sali Mali,an animated series from indie Calon, and ...
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NewsS4C in£8m recommission
8am: S4C has handed an£8m three year deal to indie Nant for two new series of Welsh language children's drama series Rownd a Rownd.
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NewsNew chair for S4C
8am:Culture secretary Tessa Jowell has appointed John Walter Jones as chair of the S4C Authority, replacing Elan Closs Stephens who is leaving after eight years in the post.
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NewsITV's Allen joins Skillset
ITV chief executive Charles Allen has become a patron of Skillset, the body charged with improving training and skills in the television industry.
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NewsTinopolis takes Wedi 7 into HD
8am:Llanelli-based indie Tinopolis is to start making its long running weeknight magazine programme for S4C, Wedi 7, in high definition (HD).
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Top 100 of 2005
Philip Reevell reflects on a year in which reality shows may have dominated the schedules but the big ratings stories were to be found in drama, with the triumphant return of Doctor Who, and in comedy, as Little Britaintook the ...
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Doing the business in 2005
Steve Hewlett on how the major commercial channels are finally rising to the challenges posed by multichannel and new media - and how rights will be key in 2006.
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Commissioner's Q & A: Siwan Jobbins
The commissioning editor, children's, at S4C has high regard for the yuck factor, Trevor Eve's crime-busting antics and C4's recent drama about David Blunkett's fall from grace.
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NewsS4C hands 20 years of programme rights back to indies
8am: Welsh broadcaster S4C is handing rights in all its programmes made before the introduction of the terms of trade back to the independent sector.
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Tinopolis steps up TV Corp bid
Major shareholders in troubled indie TV Corp are pressuring the company's board to accept a takeover bid from Welsh producer Tinopolis.
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NewsJamie's School Dinners grabs five Promax nominations
Channel 4's Jamie's School Dinners promo has clinched five nominations for the Promax UK Awards to be held on 5 November, including Best Launch and Best Television Campaign.
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Analysis - It's not just cricket!
Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.
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NewsTinopolis confirms talks with TV Corp
Welsh indie Tinopolis, the producers of Lahore Law, has confirmed that it is in talks with producer Television Corporation over a possible acquisition.
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NewsTinopolis bids for TV Corp
3.30pm: Welsh indie Tinopolis has made a takeover bid for TV Corp, the troubled indie run by former BBC sport chief Peter Salmon.
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NewsIt's not just cricket!
Channel 4 may have bolstered its ratings share with cracking coverage of the Ashes cricket, but this year's third quarterly figures show that terrestrial TV is continuing to lose ground to multichannel.
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Tessa Jowell: RTS Cambridge keynote address
Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport 7pm 15 September 2005
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Are you sure, Tessa?
With the Border region lined up to be the first to go digital, doubts remain over whether the government and broadcasters have adequately prepared for, and funded, the upheaval of switchover, writes Jenny Smith.
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NewsParthenon adds PBS titles to slate
Factual producer and distributor Parthenon Entertainment is continuing its expansion drive in the run up to Mipcom, with the addition of nine hours of PBS programming to its catalogue.