17 Jun 2005
| by Emma Barns
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has increased its financial contribution...The BBC has announced profits of £55 million for the year, driven by sales of products ...
on 2003/4's figures.
The results mean a £4 million increase to £145 million in cash flow to the BBC. The news puts BBC Worldwide on course to meet its target to double its profits to £74 million by next year ...
09 Apr 2001
LONDON - The BBC is launching a daily business programme called Business Today, on its digital TV...The programme is an effort to ramp up the BBC's business coverage. The BBC's director general Greg Dyke has criticised the corporation's business coverage, and in November appointed Jeff Randall, former editor of Sunday Business, as its first business editor.
Business Today will air Monday to Friday ...
15 Apr 2005
The BBC has announced an 18-strong longlist of potential buyers for its £100 million BBC Broadcast...Company when it was divested by Carlton.
BBC Broadcast has produced a number of commercials for non ...
of the BBC's commercial operations. Last year, BBC Broadcast, which employs more than 1,000 people, returned ...
19 Nov 1998
| by DANNY ROGERS
The BBC has received the most negative coverage of any organisation
in the UK, according...The BBC has received the most negative coverage of any organisation
in the UK, according to the latest quarterly figures from media
monitoring company, PressWatch.
The BBC had 2118 negative ...
firm
Booker.
The BBC was hit by adverse comment on the departure of Radio 3 head
Nicholas ...
17 Jan 2007
The BBC World Service's editor of business programmes has left the corporation to join City comms...be teaching us a lot of the time. During his time at the BBC, Fink covered the business and economic affairs ...
01 Jul 2005
The BBC has sold off its creative broadcast services division, BBC Broadcast, to an Australian...of the division through their jointly owned company Creative Broadcast Services Ltd.
BBC Broadcast creates in-house trailers for the BBC and ads for clients such as McDonald's and Woolworths, as well as maintaining lucrative transmission contracts with the BBC and UKTV.
The sale follows on from the BBC's internal ...
04 Jul 2001
| by Claire Billings
LONDON - The BBC today admitted that it had made some scheduling mistakes, as it revealed...Girl Like You did not draw the audiences the BBC would have liked". It highlighted successes ...
in the Grave , hailing them as "great moments in TV". Despite BBC1's falling ratings, BBC2's audience share ...
, the BBC admitted that in some areas it had failed to connect with big audiences. It was questioned ...
30 Nov 2007
| by Alex Donohue
LONDON - The BBC is in the hunt for a market research agency to handle its qualitative research...methodologies for debriefing findings to BBC employees. Jane Clancey, head of research for audio and music at the BBC, said: The way people consume media, attitudes and expectations are changing at a rapid pace ...
and interpret audience behaviour in this dynamic environment. The BBC said all prospective agencies needed ...
27 Apr 2001
LONDON - Two BBC websites have been nominated in categories for the Webby Awards, which...The BBC’s flagship news site BBC News Online has been nominated in the news category alongside CNN, Salon, Inside and CNET News, while the BBC''s World Service will compete against COMFM, Fresh Air ...
outstanding, entertaining and useful.”
www.CBSMarketwatch.com
www.Fool.com
www.Yahoo.com
www.BBC ...
26 Jun 2008
| by Kate Magee
Under-fire retailer Primark snubbed the BBC and instead turned to the web to get its message out...case in a balanced or fair manner. Instead of talking to the BBC, Primark set up a microsite to speak ...
Foods (ABF), said Primark had been involved in a right of reply process with the BBC for six weeks prior to the show airing. It became clear the BBC's main motivation for giving us a right of reply ...