18 Dec 2003
| by MediaWeek
So BBC ? that?s Graham...Channel 4 confirmed the departure of Graham Norton this week, a move that will leave the channel with a gaping hole in its late-night schedule. Norton is defecting to the BBC, where he will work on format ideas for a Saturdaynight show on BBC 1. The comedian has hosted his chat show V ...
18 Dec 2003
| by Poppy Brech
The BBC will this week report that it expects the number of households with Freeview to reach 2...in the approach to Christmas, according to the BBC.
This compares with peak sales of 55,000 a week last year.
The BBC claims that the growth of Freeview, alongside that of satellite and cable, means more than half of all UK households now have access to digital television.
Ilse Howling, the BBC's head of digital ...
18 Dec 2003
The BBC has welcomed the start of the Charter Review process by announcing a series of events
18 Dec 2003
| by Raymond Snoddy, media editor of The Times
And you can be absolutely sure of one thing - however severe Lord Hutton's verdict, the BBC ...
attention to the list of 24 questions put to the BBC as part of Charter Review.
They are of course the obvious questions anyone with a basic knowledge of the BBC would ask. In a multi-channel age, how ...
16 Dec 2003
| by Gordon MacMillan,
LONDON - The BBC today banned its journalists from writing newspaper columns on current affairs...The BBC said the move was necessary to ensure the corporation's impartiality, which it said was an essential element to the BBC's reputation.
The ban followed a review of the BBC's guidelines announced in the wake of the row that saw Rod Liddle stand down from his job as editor of the BBC's flagship Radio 4 ...
16 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
special week of programming on BBC digital rock and pop station 6 Music over Christmas....Radiohead are curating the BBC's digital music station under the heading 'The 6 Music Selector' from Monday December 22 to Sunday December 28 2003.
The band have raided the BBC archive for rare ...
will select his favourite concerts and sessions from the BBC archive from the past 40 years for the 'Dream ...
15 Dec 2003
| by Staff,
LONDON – The BBC has won the battle to sign comedian presenter Graham Norton after he leaves...The BBC has made no secret of its desire to sign Norton, who will join the BBC in April 2004, to work on ideas for BBC One's Saturday nights.
Prior to that, he will spend some time in the US working ...
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Lorraine Heggessey, BBC One controller, said: "We've made no secret of our admiration of Graham and I ...
11 Dec 2003
| by Ben Carter
phase of a bitter battle over the BBC's remit in the digital media arena.
The campaign, created by BBC Broadcast, runs through December and into January and is intended to promote the BBC's 24/7 interactive TV digital information services, with the strapline 'BBC at your beck and call'.
The BBC's interactive TV ...
11 Dec 2003
BBC World Service has unveiled a three-minute video 'Many Voices, One World', to play on a loop
10 Dec 2003
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON – The BBC has appointed Mark Byford to take on the new role of deputy director general...responsibilities leading the global news division, the BBC World Service and BBC World.
The appointment gives him ...
structure will now have a particular responsibility for compliance and complaints."
The BBC has had ...
than its board of governors.
"As a beacon of public service broadcasting around the world, the BBC ...