JA
jay
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Wouldn't that be a breach of terms and conditions?
It's OK for sites such as MediaGuardian and the like as you don't have to pay for the content, I'm afraid it's different with Broadcast.
Mind you you could always go down to your local newsagents and buy a copy of Broadcast - £2.95... and the new issue is out today.
It's OK for sites such as MediaGuardian and the like as you don't have to pay for the content, I'm afraid it's different with Broadcast.
Mind you you could always go down to your local newsagents and buy a copy of Broadcast - £2.95... and the new issue is out today.
ST
Just from the website information it appears that BBC are aiming to concentrate their resources on BBC N24 rather than bulletins on the main channels. This would make perfect sense. Eventually we are all going to be receiving digital channels, so bulletins on the main channels should vanish altogether on the basis that
"if you want to watch the news, go to one of the free news channels"
BL
***THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES FIRST APPEARED IN BROADCASTNOW.COM 3/11/2005.
BROADCASTNOW.COM AND EMAP RETAIN FULL OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT. THE ARTICLES HAVE BEEN LIFTED COMPLETE AND UN-EDITED, AND RE-PRINTED FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON THESE STORIES, ON BROADCASTNOW, OR EMAP CAN BE FOUND AT: www.broadcastnow.com ****
Shaps to overhaul ITV commissioning
03 November 2005 07:50
ITV director of television Simon Shaps is planning a radical overhaul of ITV's commissioning system, creating three new genre "ministries" and hiring around eight more commissioners.
The moves, which are set to be announced in the next few weeks, will see ITV commissioning focused around entertainment, drama and factual.
Each department will be overseen by a single creative head who will have a number of commissioners beneath him or her. The idea is to give ITV more quality control over commissions.
It is believed that Shaps has made finding someone to run the new "ministry of factual" - which is set to house religion, arts, current affairs, documentaries, factual entertainment, features, daytime and possibly news -his top priority and is determined to get a big name to do it.
Shaps and ITV1's director of programmes, Nigel Pickard, are said to have drawn up a wish list of TV executives that they want to draft in to network centre and started approaching them earlier this month.
Shaps has already approached head of E4 and Channel 4 factual entertainment Julian Bellamy, C4 head of documentaries Danny Cohen, BBC commissioning editor for specialist factual Emma Swain and Five controller of features and entertainment Ben Frow.
Shaps is also set to move comedy commissioning, which is currently run by Sioned Wiliam, under the control of a beefed up entertainment department. Sources said it is likely that the current controller of entertainment, Claudia Rosencrantz, will stay on to run it.
Likewise, the current head of drama, Nick Elliott, is set to stay on to run the drama arm, overseeing younger new commissioners.
The plans, according to sources, were originally developed by Pickard, before Shaps took on the role as director of television. But he is believed to have endorsed them and is now leading the changes.
Shaps was brought in to run the network last month, over Pickard's head, as part of a strategy to fix ITV's ratings decline.
The schedule has performed badly over the year, especially in daytime, and ITV now faces a shortfall of around £180m to £200m in lost advertising revenues. The damage has been compounded by the CRR advertising mechanism, introduced by Ofcom following the Carlton/Granada merger, which allows advertisers to reduce their spend and keep discounts if ITV's share slumps.
ITV insiders suggested, however, that the broadcaster could mitigate its losses by up to £100m by selling more ads on its multichannel services such as newly launched ITV4.
BBC news in major revamp
03 November 2005 07:50
BBC head of TV news Peter Horrocks is planning a major overhaul of the corporation's newsgathering service which would see it shift its focus from the major terrestrial bulletins to News 24.
Horrocks is expected to announce to staff next week that newsgathering will switch its focus from generating stories for the 1pm, 6pm and 10pm bulletins and instead supply a constant feed of stories to News 24.
The editors of the bulletins would then repackage stories supplied to News 24. The only exception is likely to be on major exclusives.
Horrocks is understood to want to instigate the changes to end what he sees as the "excessive internal competition" within news and the bulletins' tendency to operate as individual fiefdoms. He has already warned staff that they must collaborate more closely.
The move would represent a major shift in emphasis for the corporation's news operation. Currently, the bulletins are considered its flagships, but, with increased competition from a newly relaunched Sky News, News 24 has increased in importance. Sky News' newsgathering arm already supplies a constant stream to the channel.
Horrocks hinted at the changes in a Broadcast interview last week when he said: "As someone who has a strong current affairs and news background I am keen to make sure we're breaking more stories. In terms of News 24 it's the most important priority."
As part of his announcement next week, he is expected to also demand that all exclusives must be signed off by him.
"At the moment if you're a reporter and you've got an exclusive at 4pm, you can hold it until the 10pm bulletin," said one source at News 24. "In future you'd have to ask to do that and if you're turned down you might have to put a package together on it for News 24."
Such attempts to streamline the operation may also help Horrocks make the job cuts required of the department, which must lose 420 posts over the next three years.
A BBC spokesman declined to confirm Horrocks' plans and said: "As is usual practice, any announcements that Peter has to make will be made directly to news staff."
Fresh Freeview slot draws bids
03 November 2005 07:50
Another Freeview slot is up for grabs and owner National Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle) has asked for minimum bids of £5.5m a year.
The 18-hour slot, thought to be from 6am to midnight, will be ready by 1 December. Interested parties had until Tuesday (1 November) this week to submit bids. Those said to have expressed an interest include Flextech, Viacom, Five, ITV, Channel 4 and Disney.
Pay-TV broadcasters will be paying more attention to the rare bandwidth as the bidding process coincides with an Ofcom consultation looking into the possibility of scrapping the "free to air only" requirement on multiplexes B, C and D.
Multiplex B, licensed to the Freeview consortium, and NGW's multiplexes C and D are currently forbidden to broadcast pay-TV channels. The new slot is on multiplex D.
However, now that Freeview is in more than 5 million homes Ofcom thinks there is scope for removing the restrictions - fully or partially - in order to promote competition. It has asked for responses by 12 January 2006.
Ian West, co-founder of Top-Up TV, which operates a pay-TV service using one of SDN's multiplexes, said that his group has raised the issue with Ofcom several times and would be bidding for available capacity.
"We will bid for all available capacity and if successful ask Ofcom to change the regulations again," he said.
It is thought a further slot could also be created on multiplex C and put up for grabs next year.
JamesJH posted:
"Shaps to overhaul ITV commissioning"
"BBC news in major revamp"
"Fresh Freeview slot draws bids"
Could we see some of these articles please? Either in excerpt or full form? Thanks.
"BBC news in major revamp"
"Fresh Freeview slot draws bids"
Could we see some of these articles please? Either in excerpt or full form? Thanks.
***THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES FIRST APPEARED IN BROADCASTNOW.COM 3/11/2005.
BROADCASTNOW.COM AND EMAP RETAIN FULL OWNERSHIP AND COPYRIGHT. THE ARTICLES HAVE BEEN LIFTED COMPLETE AND UN-EDITED, AND RE-PRINTED FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
FURTHER INFORMATION ON THESE STORIES, ON BROADCASTNOW, OR EMAP CAN BE FOUND AT: www.broadcastnow.com ****
Shaps to overhaul ITV commissioning
03 November 2005 07:50
ITV director of television Simon Shaps is planning a radical overhaul of ITV's commissioning system, creating three new genre "ministries" and hiring around eight more commissioners.
The moves, which are set to be announced in the next few weeks, will see ITV commissioning focused around entertainment, drama and factual.
Each department will be overseen by a single creative head who will have a number of commissioners beneath him or her. The idea is to give ITV more quality control over commissions.
It is believed that Shaps has made finding someone to run the new "ministry of factual" - which is set to house religion, arts, current affairs, documentaries, factual entertainment, features, daytime and possibly news -his top priority and is determined to get a big name to do it.
Shaps and ITV1's director of programmes, Nigel Pickard, are said to have drawn up a wish list of TV executives that they want to draft in to network centre and started approaching them earlier this month.
Shaps has already approached head of E4 and Channel 4 factual entertainment Julian Bellamy, C4 head of documentaries Danny Cohen, BBC commissioning editor for specialist factual Emma Swain and Five controller of features and entertainment Ben Frow.
Shaps is also set to move comedy commissioning, which is currently run by Sioned Wiliam, under the control of a beefed up entertainment department. Sources said it is likely that the current controller of entertainment, Claudia Rosencrantz, will stay on to run it.
Likewise, the current head of drama, Nick Elliott, is set to stay on to run the drama arm, overseeing younger new commissioners.
The plans, according to sources, were originally developed by Pickard, before Shaps took on the role as director of television. But he is believed to have endorsed them and is now leading the changes.
Shaps was brought in to run the network last month, over Pickard's head, as part of a strategy to fix ITV's ratings decline.
The schedule has performed badly over the year, especially in daytime, and ITV now faces a shortfall of around £180m to £200m in lost advertising revenues. The damage has been compounded by the CRR advertising mechanism, introduced by Ofcom following the Carlton/Granada merger, which allows advertisers to reduce their spend and keep discounts if ITV's share slumps.
ITV insiders suggested, however, that the broadcaster could mitigate its losses by up to £100m by selling more ads on its multichannel services such as newly launched ITV4.
BBC news in major revamp
03 November 2005 07:50
BBC head of TV news Peter Horrocks is planning a major overhaul of the corporation's newsgathering service which would see it shift its focus from the major terrestrial bulletins to News 24.
Horrocks is expected to announce to staff next week that newsgathering will switch its focus from generating stories for the 1pm, 6pm and 10pm bulletins and instead supply a constant feed of stories to News 24.
The editors of the bulletins would then repackage stories supplied to News 24. The only exception is likely to be on major exclusives.
Horrocks is understood to want to instigate the changes to end what he sees as the "excessive internal competition" within news and the bulletins' tendency to operate as individual fiefdoms. He has already warned staff that they must collaborate more closely.
The move would represent a major shift in emphasis for the corporation's news operation. Currently, the bulletins are considered its flagships, but, with increased competition from a newly relaunched Sky News, News 24 has increased in importance. Sky News' newsgathering arm already supplies a constant stream to the channel.
Horrocks hinted at the changes in a Broadcast interview last week when he said: "As someone who has a strong current affairs and news background I am keen to make sure we're breaking more stories. In terms of News 24 it's the most important priority."
As part of his announcement next week, he is expected to also demand that all exclusives must be signed off by him.
"At the moment if you're a reporter and you've got an exclusive at 4pm, you can hold it until the 10pm bulletin," said one source at News 24. "In future you'd have to ask to do that and if you're turned down you might have to put a package together on it for News 24."
Such attempts to streamline the operation may also help Horrocks make the job cuts required of the department, which must lose 420 posts over the next three years.
A BBC spokesman declined to confirm Horrocks' plans and said: "As is usual practice, any announcements that Peter has to make will be made directly to news staff."
Fresh Freeview slot draws bids
03 November 2005 07:50
Another Freeview slot is up for grabs and owner National Grid Wireless (formerly Crown Castle) has asked for minimum bids of £5.5m a year.
The 18-hour slot, thought to be from 6am to midnight, will be ready by 1 December. Interested parties had until Tuesday (1 November) this week to submit bids. Those said to have expressed an interest include Flextech, Viacom, Five, ITV, Channel 4 and Disney.
Pay-TV broadcasters will be paying more attention to the rare bandwidth as the bidding process coincides with an Ofcom consultation looking into the possibility of scrapping the "free to air only" requirement on multiplexes B, C and D.
Multiplex B, licensed to the Freeview consortium, and NGW's multiplexes C and D are currently forbidden to broadcast pay-TV channels. The new slot is on multiplex D.
However, now that Freeview is in more than 5 million homes Ofcom thinks there is scope for removing the restrictions - fully or partially - in order to promote competition. It has asked for responses by 12 January 2006.
Ian West, co-founder of Top-Up TV, which operates a pay-TV service using one of SDN's multiplexes, said that his group has raised the issue with Ofcom several times and would be bidding for available capacity.
"We will bid for all available capacity and if successful ask Ofcom to change the regulations again," he said.
It is thought a further slot could also be created on multiplex C and put up for grabs next year.
JA
I get mine from Smiths too - makes good reading for the way home on a Friday!
Annoyed the price has gone up again though - Grr!
jay
Founding member
TVF posted:
I get mine at W H Smiths, I know you can order it from them if your local store don't have it.
It's gone up to £3.20 by the way, well it was last week, the price is forever changing.
It's gone up to £3.20 by the way, well it was last week, the price is forever changing.
I get mine from Smiths too - makes good reading for the way home on a Friday!
Annoyed the price has gone up again though - Grr!