Suzanne Bearne
NewsBrits willing to spend £1.5bn on commercial radio
Britons would spend £1.5bn per year to listen to commercial radio stations, a survey by audience measurement firm Kantar Media has found.
NewsChannel 4 resurrects Secret History
Channel 4 is to bring back Secret History, its long-running TV documentary series which aired from 1991 to 2004.
NewsChannel 5 renews three series
Channel 5 has recommssioned Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun, Brain Hospital: Saving Lives, and Classic Car Rescue, and will air the shows next year.
NewsNutopia's The Story of Us goes Down Under
Indie Nutopia has sold docudrama The Story of Us to Australian network Seven.
NewsNick Grimshaw Breakfast Show loses 1m listeners
The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, fronted by Nick Grimshaw, has lost more than one million listeners over the past year, according to the latest set of Rajar figures.
NewsC4 launches Unreported World online films
Channel 4 has started to roll out a set of short online films for the latest series of Unreported World as it looks to reach a wider audience through social networks.
NewsOfcom criticises This Morning and Newsnight over McAlpine debacle
This Morning and Newsnight have both had their knuckles rapped by Ofcom over Lord McAlpine being wrongly implicated in child abuse sex allegations on both shows.
NewsBBC3 orders raft of factual and current affairs docs
BBC3 has commissioned five factual and current affairs docs, including a programme looking at an 18-30s campsite in north Devon and a Reggie Yates doc on South Africa.
NewsBBC1 orders Metropolitan Police doc
BBC1 has commissioned a six-part documentary delving into the inner workings of the UK’s largest police force, the Metropolitan Police Service.
NewsTiger Aspect hires Clare Handford as head of factual
Tiger Aspect has appointed former Sky commissioner Clare Handford as head of factual programming.
NewsUnions vent frustration at ITV over pay deal
The National Union of Journalists, Bectu and Unite have vented their frustrations at ITV, claiming it failed to “bring anything to the table” at a meeting on Monday to discuss a better pay deal for staff.
NewsEndemol UK to move into app market
Endemol UK is to break into the burgeoning app market for the first time next month with the launch of gaming apps based on Pointless and Deal or No Deal.
NewsWindfall adds two executive producers
Indie Windfall Films has promoted Jamie Lochhead and Peter Oxley to both become executive producers.
NewsBBC and RIG strike new radio terms of trade
The BBC and the Radio Independents Group (RIG) have agreed new terms of trade for commissioning independent producers, days after the broadcaster signed a similar TV deal with Pact.
NewsLeft Bank Pictures reports pre-tax profits of £1m
Left Bank Pictures has reported pre-tax profits of £1m for the nine months to 31 March 2013 after it was acquired by Sony Pictures Television (SPT) for £40m last year.
NewsBBC1 commissions celebrity gymnastics show
BBC1 has commissioned two new entertainment formats, including a Saturday night celebrity gymnastics competition.
NewsShine TV brings Bear Grylls back to C4
Bear Grylls is returning to Channel 4 with a series that will see him challenge 12 men to survive on a desert island for four weeks.
NewsSBTV YouTube channel wins private equity backing
SBTV, the online music and entertainment channel, has secured private equity backing from Miroma Ventures.
NewsMark Rogers to depart Zodiak UK
Mark Rogers, chief commercial officer at Zodiak UK, is to leave the production company group to set up his own media consultancy.
NewsSaturday Kitchen offers takeaway recipe kits
BBC1 cookery show Saturday Kitchen is to offer viewers the opportunity to recreate dishes prepared by the programme’s chefs - with the launch of home-delivered recipe boxes.