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R2 told to put ambition before ratings
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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BBC Radio 2 told to put ambition before ratings Radio 2 must offer 'content the licence-fee payer can't hear elsewhere' says David Liddiment, leader of BBC Trust review Chris Evans: could lower Radio 2's age profile. Photograph: Rex Features BBC Radio...
Tags: BBC Radio, United Kingdom, London, Entertainment Culture, David Liddiment, Arbitron, BBC, Simon Mayo, Terry Wogan, Audience measurement, Business Finance, Television in the United Kingdom, Chris Evans, Television licence, Music radio
BBC broadcast faked scenes in Angela Rippon auction show
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Sun, Sea and Bargain Spotting, a BBC Two auction series produced by Reef Television, featured numerous episodes of staff from the independent production company participating in the show while pretending to be members of the public. In the show, friends...
Tags: BBC The BBC, Reef Television, BBC Trust, production company, United Kingdom, London, BBC, Richard Tait, Blue Peter, Reef, Angela Rippon, Year of birth missing, Entertainment Culture, Top Gear
Sambrook to leave BBC in 2010
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Peter Horrocks will succeed Sambrook in February but his current job, as director of the World Service, will be combined with his new role. Sambrook will join the Reuters Institute for the study of journalism at Oxford as a visiting Fellow for the first...
Tags: Richard Sambrook, BBC, United Kingdom, London, Entertainment Culture, Greg Dyke, BBC News, Sambrooke Freeman, Political scandals in the United Kingdom, Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, Labour Party, Hutton Inquiry
Open Secrets
Icó :: Brazil | 2 days ago
Credibility Chris Graham interviewed on his plans as Commissioner 11:05 UK time, Monday, 30 November 2009 The new Information Commissioner Chris Graham says he's devoted the first phase of his time in office to "listening and learning"...This increased priority...
Tags: ICO, Mr Graham, BBC, FOI, decision notices, public authorities, information notices, Brazil, Icó
Blue Peter stops Gordon Brown from banning under-14s from TV
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility It has survived a cocaine scandal, incontinent elephants and vandals in its world-famous garden, so perhaps the odds were always against Blue Peter being sunk by Gordon Brown. Yet that is exactly what the BBC feared would happen when they heard of Whitehall...
Tags: Gordon Brown, Blue Peter, CBBC, United Kingdom, London, Department for Children Schools and Families, BBC, Channel 4, Newsround, Television in the United Kingdom, Ofcom, Entertainment Culture, Watchdog
US police officers 'shot near air base'
Sunday, November 29, 2009 Search term Explore the BBC BBC News Updated every minute of every day One-Minute World News News Front Page Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Middle East South Asia UK Business Health Science & Environment Technology...
Tags: bbc news. biodun iginla, McChord Air Force Base, police officers, Web 2.0, allnews, Social bookmarking, Seattle, Internet marketing, Sport, Day Editors, BBC News, Europe, Editors, Air (band), Community websites, Africa, Social information processing, AdSense, Google, BBC, Digg
BBC apologises for Boycott's foul-mouthed outburst during cricket coverage
Port Elizabeth :: South Africa | 3 days ago
Credibility The former England batsman was overheard shouting: 'F***ing tosser' during coverage of the one-day international victory against South Africa on Radio 5 Live. Unaware that he could be heard on air, he made the observation after England took a sixth wicket.
Tags: South Africa on Radio, Geoffrey Boycott, England, BBC, mouthed outburst, old comment, cricket coverage, bbc apologises, South Africa, Port Elizabeth, allnews, Paul Collingwood, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Elton John, Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, Knights Bachelor, Eagle, Sepp Blatter, Boycott, Watford F.C., Desmond Hume, Hashim Amla, Dermot Desmond, England cricket team, Test Match Special, Fonzie, Entertainment Culture
BBC chief looks to cut U.S. shows
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility BBC topper Mark Thompson has signalled that the corporation will spend less money on U.S. shows in future. Speaking in London Thursday, the BBC director-general said that following digital switchover in 2012 the pubcaster will spend a higher proportion...
Tags: BBC, Mark Thompson, license fee, Los Angeles, Television in the United Kingdom, Digital television transition, Digital television
Strictly star Jade Johnson on her knee injury: Imagine the worst ever toothache and headache... then multiply by ten
Belfast :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility More than eight million viewers watched the 29-year-old athlete pressing a bag of frozen peas to her heavily bandaged knee just before she was about to dance the tango in the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, but she never took to the floor. Disaster had struck...
Tags: Jade Johnson, Kevin Lidlow, BBC, strictly come, knee injury, come dance, United Kingdom, Belfast, Jade, Medial collateral ligament, Ian Waite, Jade Villalon, My Man, Strictly Come Dancing
Future imperfect
Tehrān :: Iran | 3 days ago
Credibility an Iranian Martyr, Gracie! and Cast Offs The BBC's new time-shift thriller is criminally daft, while Wales trumps Essex in Gavin & Stacey The clue was probably in the title, but even by the yardstick of plausibility cheerfully ignored by most popular...
Tags: BBC, Gracie Fields, Neda Agha-Soltan, Gavin & Stacey, mobile phones, Nessa, Iran, Tehrān, British television, Ruth Jones, Death of Neda Agha-Soltan, Neda Galicia, Gavin & Stacey, Iranian presidential election, Entertainment Culture
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