Social TV Forum – London. The BBC is to launch a series of social media applications based around popular shows including Strictly Come Dancing.
BBC Prime becomes Entertainment
After 14 years the BBC Prime name will disappear when on November 11 at 6am CET the channel will be rebranded as BBC Entertainment.
BBC-Channel 4 merger proposed
RTS Cambridge. Phil Redmond, the man who created Grange Hill and Hollyoaks, has suggested that Channel 4 become a part of the BBC.
BBC pushes for HD capacity growth
IBC 2009 – Amsterdam. Further HD services could launch in the UK if Ofcom gives permission for the new terrestrial HD multiplex to run at 40 Mbps.
Murdoch: “analogue attitudes in a digital age”
James Murdoch has launched a scathing attack on the regulation of British broadcasting. Exactly 20 years after his father Rupert also delivered the MacTaggart Lecture to the Edinburgh International Television Festival, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, Europe and Asia told the 2009 event that central planning had resulted in lost opportunities for […]