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Livesey to Parthenon
Factual indie Parthenon Entertainment has poached Discovery Channel senior production manager Maria Livesey to fill the new role of director of production.
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BBC fends off commercial challenge
Commercial radio has failed to claw back significant market share from the BBC.
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ITV news reshuffle
New ITV News Channel editor Ben Rayner has reshuffled his team making a series of promotions. Assistant editor Matt Walsh has been promoted to deputy editor and senior programme editor Harry Gibson will take on the assistant editor role. Gibson's role is taken on by Debora Gorbutt, who moves up ...
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Top breakfast shows lose listeners
Johnny Vaughan hung on to his place as London's top commercial radio breakfast host but the three leading commercial breakfast shows all lost listeners in the latest figures. Vaughan lost 161,000 listeners over the three-month period, falling to 1,077,000 listeners. Jamie Theakston, who joined Chrysalis's Heart 106.2 FM part way ...
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BBC digital making little impact
The BBC's digital stations all failed to make inroads in the most recent Rajars, with share either declining or holding steady. BBC 6 Music and BBC 7 both lost share, down to 0.1 and 0.2 respectively, while Five Live Sports Extra, 1Xtra, and BBC Asian Network could only maintain their ...
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Wogan remains nation's favourite
Wake up to Woganremains the UK's most popular national breakfast show, with more than 8 million listeners, but Chris Moyles managed to increase his audience by 81,000 to reach 6.2 million. R4's Todayprogramme added 120,000 listeners over the quarter, notching up 6.3 million, but Radio 3's ...
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Kerrang! audience and share fall
Emap's West Midlands-based Kerrang! 105.2 lost both audience and share compared with 2005's first Rajar. Share slipped from 2.7% to 2.5%, while audience figures fell by 64,000 to 260,000. When digital listeners are included, the Kerrang! brand's total UK share fell from 0.5% to 0.4%, with audience down 123,000 to ...
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Clyde 1 and 2 slip in Scotland, BBC up
Scottish Radio Holdings' Clyde 1 FM and Clyde 2 both lost out in the battle for audience in Scotland. Clyde 1's share slid from 16.8% in the previous quarter to 15.7%, while Clyde 2 fell from 9.8% to 7.9%. Winners included BBC Radio Scotland which increased from a 7.9% share ...
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Choose your favourite ITV characters
Broadcastthis week launches its readers' poll to discover who are the most popular and iconic ITV characters of all time. Readers are invited to vote from a selection of more than 50 well-loved characters including hard-man of television detectives Taggart; The Saint's ...
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Edinburgh festival hosts Question Time
Salman Rushdie, Dr David Starkey, and MPs Dianne Abbott and George Galloway have been added to the Edinburgh TV Festival Question Time Special. Shadow culture spokeswoman Theresa May and former director general Greg Dyke are also on the panel, chaired by Andrew Neil. The special will be held on Sunday ...
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Kirkham moves from C4 to BBC1
A senior figure on Channel 4's Richard & Judyprogramme has been poached to fill a new post in BBC daytime. Alison Kirkham has been associate editor on the C4 show for the past year but has defected to the BBC to take the newly created role ...
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Network rollout for Capital FM's seven
GCap Media is to roll out its 95.8 Capital FM Sunday night Sevenentertainment show across its The One Network stations. The three-hour show, presented by Justin Wilkes and Sam Mann, looks at the week's celebrity news and has exclusive interviews. It is the first time GCap ...
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Schoonmaker leads Swansea radio bid
Former Emap Performance chief executive Tim Schoonmaker is heading a UK radio bid backed by Australian investment bank Macquarie. The bid is for a new 12-year FM licence for Swansea, under the name Diamond FM, a mainstream classic rock proposal. The new station will reach approximately 300,000 adults, depending on ...
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NewsLost attracts 6.1m
Channel 4's publicity campaign for its latest US drama series Lostpaid-off last night with the first episode attracting a massive audience of 6.1 million (26.8%) from 8.30pm.
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NewsSecond Ashes test gets DVD release
Indie Sunset + Vine has taken the term 'fast turnaround' to extremes, turning out a DVD of England's Test Match cricket success in just five days.
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NewsBBC dogged by spoof news story
The BBC is still being dogged by a spoof BBC News web page which reported the death of 28 midgets in a fight with a lion.
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NewsFive ventures into multichannel world
Five has announced its first venture into mulitchannel TV with a joint venture with interactive media group YooMedia.
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NewsC4's cricket dominates daytime again
Viewers don't seem to have tired of Channel 4's cricket coverage with the afternoon's first day's play of the third test dominating viewing with 2.4 million (28.7%) over five hours.
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NewsNotts council lodge Ofcom complaint
Nottingham City Council has complained to Ofcom after Channel 4's Best and Worst Places to Live in the UKnamed the city the second worst place to live in the country.