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Stewart Clarke
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Turner poaches UKTV exec for commercial role
Turner Broadcasting has hired Dan Fahy as senior director, commercial development, for its operations in…
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Airey, Highfield, Mahon join BBC review panel
UK culture secretary John Whittingdale has appointed an eight-strong panel to advise the government ahead…
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Netflix drives Oz SVOD to 2m
There are now two million SVOD subs in Australia, with the launches of new service…
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Insight gets Rimer for international
Jane Rimer has come on board as a staffer and taken on a new international…
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MTG pays for Splay MCN
The Modern Times Group has taken control of Splay, Sweden’s largest multichannel network. The Sweden-listed…
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SES launching 4K channel
HD+, a subsidiary of satellite services operator SES, will launch a channel to demonstrate the…
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Splash strikes digital deal with Dish
Splash Entertainment has sold a five-title package of kids series to US pay TV operator…
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CBBC: report card, recent hits, shopping lists
CBeebies controller Kay Benbow and her CBBC counterpart Cheryl Taylor took the stage at the…
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CBeebies: report card, recent hits, shopping lists
CBeebies controller Kay Benbow and her CBBC counterpart Cheryl Taylor took the stage at the…
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Sky snags new Muppets show
UK network Sky has picked up The Muppets, the new ob-doc style show featuring the…
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ProSieben creates $240m global MCN
ProSiebenSat.1 has taken control of multichannel network operator Collective Digital Studio and will merge it…
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Bastings rejoins Discovery
Discovery Communications has brought back Arthur Bastings to head up its operations across Asia Pacific. Bastings…
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BBC licence deal ‘bad for children’s TV’
The Children’s Media Foundation, a UK advocacy group, says the license fee agreement hammered out…
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BBC weighs original family films in BBC3 hours
The BBC is considering making original family films to fill extra hours that could be…
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Chernin hires digital boss from Yahoo
Peter Chernin’s media investment business has hired Mike Kerns as president of digital. In his…
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BBC kids boss issues license fee rallying call
The new head of the children’s services at the BBC has called upon the wider…
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‘PSBs investing less in UK content’
Investment in UK-originated content has decreased in recent years, but satisfaction with public service channels…
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RTL Hungary appoints CEO and deputy
Pan-European broadcast group RTL has appointed a permanent CEO and vice-CEO at RTL Hungary following…
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Viacom launching English channels in India
Viacom and TV18 are launching two new English-language channel brands in India through their Viacom18…
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Netflix orders trio of kids originals
Netflix has ordered three new animated series for kids: Word Party, Kazoops! and True &…
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ITV relaunches channel in Singapore
UK broadcaster ITV is relaunching its ITV Choice channel in Singapore after striking a deal…
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Donald Trump suing Univison
Donald Trump is suing Univision after the US Spanish-language network decided to terminate its business…
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Masterpiece deal gives Amazon UK drama
The extension of a deal with US broadcaster PBS has given Amazon US rights to…
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Discovery in Cuban doc first
Discovery Channel has commissioned Cuban Chrome, a doc series about car culture in Cuba that…
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SBS gets Drunk from Comedy Central
SBS has picked up several Comedy Central titles, including the UK version of Drunk History….
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UK kids TV: Boom or bust?
Having won animation and then live-action kids TV tax breaks, UK kids producers have new…
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NBC ends relationship with Donald Trump
US broadcast net NBC has confirmed it will stop working with Donald Trump in the…
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Turner, Warner Bros. ink Boomerang deal
Turner Broadcasting and Warner Bros. are working together to produce hundreds of hours of original…
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Celestial Tiger takes Kix OTT
Asian channel operator Celestial Tiger Entertainment is launching an over-the-top version of its Kix entertainment…
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NATPE Europe: Rod Perth on Prague and succession plans
Following the NATPE Europe event in Prague again last week, outgoing CEO Rod Perth tells…