19 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
from BBC Breakfast News.
If you have an opinion on this or any other issue raised on Brand ...
18 Dec 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
to be advising on is BBC's plans for its digital channels for children. Disney has already been arguing that the BBC should face the same regulations as other broadcasters. Smith has expressed similar opinions, saying that the BBC should be subject to the rulings of the new media watchdog Ofcom.
Smith joined ...
14 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and Capita have won the 500m BBC licence-fee marketing...The BBC invited bids from the commercial sector in April after it sacked the incumbent Envision -- a consortium comprising WPP Group, Consignia and Bull Information Systems -- after the group failed to meet targets to increase the amount of licence-fee money it collected.
The AMV-owned companies ...
12 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
at the BBC....it is the current intention of the government to privatise it."
Thompson, currently director of TV at the BBC ...
of BBC director general when his contract expires in 2004.
Thompson said he hoped to be at Channel ...
Gardam, who he worked with at the BBC and whose job appears to be safe.
Thompson also took steps ...
11 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
UPDATED - As expected, Mark Thompson, the BBC's director of television and Greg Dyke's number two...offered to Thompson last night and that he has been locked in negotiations at the BBC about fulfilling ...
is expected to challenge Dyke for the post of director general of the BBC in 2004 when Dyke's contract expires. Thompson, who has been at the BBC for his entire career, is widely believed to be taking the Channel 4 role ...
11 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The BBC is set to announce the appointment of former Tory chief whip Lord Ryder of Wensum...Lord Ryder, who was chief whip under John Major between 1990 and 1995, will work alongside Davies and BBC director general Greg Dyke.
Dyke and Davies are both former Labour supporters and donors ...
in the government of the BBC, in the same way that Davies was selected.
Previously, the job had been decided ...
11 Dec 2001
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - Mark Thompson, the director of television at the BBC, looks set today to be offered...was in the race from an early stage, time to talk to executives at the BBC.
Thompson, who was appointed ...
eventually for the top job at the BBC. He was previously director of national and regional broadcasting from ...
They Think It's All Over , and Jana Bennett, the former head of science at the BBC.
The selection ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The government has asked for comments on the BBC's revised plans for its digital youth....gov.uk.
Plans for BBC3, which if it is approved will morph out of the broadcaster's current digital youth offering, BBC Choice, are, it claims, "substantially different" from the original proposals which ...
programmes; and 50 hours of new music and arts programmes.
The BBC aims for the channel to be educational ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Staff,
transmission business, comprising 3,000 masts, for an estimated 1.5bn. The BBC, along with France Telecom ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Staff,
TV to the BBC and BSkyB, which is thought to comprise a three-tier pricing structure that will help..., including the new youth channel BBC3 and entertainment channel Sky One. It will be followed by mid ...
and the other BBC/Flextech channels, such as UK Food and Play UK. It would also include a basic sports package ...
includes the BBC and Channel 4.
The coalition has been proposed by terrestrial broadcasters as a way ...