Small MPU – Page 1141
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TRADE TALK - Cash machine
Television Corporation chief executive Chris Rowlands may not be very well-known in TV land but the City adores him, says Ashley Davies.
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TRADE TALK - Martin Jackson
Warns Carlton chief Michael Green he may yet regret his decision to rebrand Central and Westcountry.
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NewsEicom music channel goes live
Bristol-based digital broadcaster Eicom has launched its long-mooted second performance channel on the BSkyB platform. [ALL]
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NEWS ANALYSIS - BBC shuts door on GLR
The BBC bowed to the inevitable last week and announced a revamp of its ailing London radio station, GLR, in the wake of its disastrous ratings performance. So what went wrong, asks John Plunkett.
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OPINION - BBC may yet pay full price for talent
It is not often that the king programme pins of Britain's terrestrial networks see eye to eye on a significant industry issue. But on the question of rising talent costs, and
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MILLENNIUM TELEVISION - Dome comfort
For the BBC it's millennium fever as the countdown to the big day begins in earnest this autumn, but for other broadcasters 'millennium schmillennium' might be a more accurate description. Peter Keighron reports.
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PREFERRED SUPPLIER DEBATE - Is C4 taking sides?
Does Channel 4 have a preferred suppliers policy? That depends who you're talking to. Below, Tracy Hofman, owner of ScreenAge Productions, claims that it does, while C4's Janet Walker presents the case for the defence.
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INTERVIEW - The brand leader
As she sets off on a freelance career after almost two decades with Lambie Nairn, the hard working, hard walking Sarah Davies is living proof that branding has become central to the future of the television industry.
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NewsParkinson back with 2.5m
The first programme in chat show host Michael Parkinson's swan song series interested 2.5m viewers (17.5%) on Saturday night, losing out to BBC1's Match of the Day. [ALL]
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OFF THE RECORD - Suck it and see
BBC backwater, sorry, nations and regions grand fromage Mark Thompson was back in the news last week outlining his vision for the Beeb's regional news in London and the south-east. Of
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OFF THE RECORD - Jerry groupie
No-one was more enthusiastic at one of the recent Jerry Springer shows, being filmed for ITV by Anglia, than United company lawyer Stephen Rudoff's wife, Lizzie.Rudoff's other half sat in the
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OFF THE RECORD - Macho management
It is the early bird, of course, who gets the worm, and no-one knows that better than Sophie Turner Laing, controller of programme acquisitions at the BBC. OTR only mentions this
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OFF THE RECORD - Poptastic appointment
Surely the most unexpected appointment of the month must go to Radio Investments subsidiary Radio Services Limited (RSL), which has appointed none other than Paul McCartney as its new business development
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OFF THE RECORD - In the flesh
Take a close look at the trunks of our back page 'virtual hunk' and you'll notice this week's pic comes not from Channel 5 (as you might have suspected) but the
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Miles leaves BBC for Carlton Online
Carlton Communications has poached Rupert Miles, director of the BBC's commercial website, beeb.com, to build up its burgeoning online and inter-active media interests.The surprise move comes in the same week that
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Norton signs£1m deal for Channel 4
Graham Norton is on the verge of signing an exclusive one-year deal with Channel 4 in an agreement understood to be worth just under£1 million, writes Tina Mistry.As part of
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ITV plans early evenings revamp
ITV is preparing to approach the Independent Television Commission with proposals for revamping early evening regional output, following a drop in viewing for local news bulletins at 18.00.Several ITV companies are
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Barb's On Digital data hit by snag
Viewership of On Digital channels including ITV2 will be excluded from the first official digital audience figures next month because of a technical hitch, write Lucy Rouse and Dominic Timms.The first
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Marks and Gran drama for BBC 1
Birds of a Feather creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have written a new primetime comedy drama for BBC 1 starring Neil Pearson, writes John Plunkett.Dirty Work, commissioned by BBC 1