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The broadcaster will disclose in January that it pays a small group of its “top talent”, which includes presenters such as Jonathan Ross and Graham Norton, a total of more than £70 million a year. But the full figure for all performers, which will also...
Tags: BBC Worldwide, United Kingdom, London, Jonathan Ross, BBC Trust, Business Finance, Television in the United Kingdom, BBC, Television licence
Lonely Planet, the travel guide publisher controversially bought by BBC Worldwide in 2007, is likely to be sold by the corporation's commercial arm. Last month the Commons culture, media and sport select committee attacked the deal and it was also a...
Tags: BBC Worldwide, lonely planet
Fans treated the star as a returning hero as he put comeback nerves behind him at the Roundhouse in London...The concert was intimate by his standards, playing to 3,000 people to kick off the BBC's Electric Proms. He is more used to playing stadiums,...
Tags: Robbie Williams, BBC Electric Proms, Robbie Rocks Again, London, Roundhouse, world record, live concert, BBC Worldwide, comeback gig
The BBC, once the nation's favourite broadcaster, is now the bloated institution every politician wants to castrate. Brucie's back (notwithstanding a pay cut) on Strictly, which means blissful autumn nights in front of the box for millions, but his paymasters...
Tags: BBC Worldwide, BBC Trust, United Kingdom, Edinburgh
The director general, Mark Thompson, defends his castle BBC director general Mark Thompson. Photograph: Richard Saker In a small office next to the splendid art deco suite commanded by earlier director generals, Mark Thompson is enjoying a bit of historic...
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The BBC's popular broadcast of "The Last Night of the Proms" will be presented live via satellite at Cineplex theatres on Sept. 12. Cineplex Entertainment says the annual musical celebration, which will cap a summer season of 100 music concerts, will...
Microsoft has moved swiftly to launch an online TV player for UK broadband users offering shows including Peep Show, Shameless and The Young Ones, with the aim of filling the void left by the defunct Project Kangaroo and stealing a march on rivals Hulu...
Tags: MSN Video, Microsoft, peep shows, tv player, BBC Worldwide, MSN UK, UK online TV
British Broadcasting Corp. and two other TV networks ended an ill-fated attempt to establish a commercial Internet TV service in the U.K. Thursday, agreeing to sell the technology behind the scheme to Arqiva Ltd. Known as Project Kangaroo, it was designed...
Tags: Project Kangaroo, BBC Worldwide, Arqiva Ltd
Former BBC former drama chief Jane Tranter , who quit as the BBC head of fiction last year to take up a new US role with the corporation's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, claimed more than £3,000 for flowers over a three-year period, most of them as gifts...
Tags: BBC Vision, BBC Worldwide, Alan Yentob, christmas dinner, executive christmas, fee payer, bbc executive, payer nearly, creative director
The BBC has suspended indefinitely bonuses for its top executives. Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body said: "We have already reached agreement that executive board bonus payments will be suspended until further...
Tags: BBC Trust, BBC John Plunkett, BBC Scottish, BBC Radio, BBC Worldwide, sir michael, Michael Lyons, suspended executive, produce better, executive bonuses