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Business

Channel 5 seals Premiership Rugby deal

Four-year deal begins from the 2017/18 season

Business

UK commercial broadcasters win case against TVCatchUp

ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have won their long running dispute with streaming platform TVCatchUp over the distribution of their content over the...

Business

Channel 4 enlists Channel 5 exec

UK broadcaster Channel 4 has hired two commissioners for its specialist factual and documentaries commissioning team. Channel 5’s Michelle Chappell and filmmaker Alf Lawrie

Production & Post

5 News relocates

Philip Stevens visits the new home for the broadcaster’s news programmes

Business

Bergg to step down at ITV

ITV head of programme strategy David Bergg will step down in early 2017. The industry veteran will be replaced by Rosemary Newell, currently ITV’s...

Business

TVPlayer adds 11 channels

TV streaming service TVPlayer has added 11 channels new channels to its offering, including ITV2, Film4 and E4. The additions take TVPlayer’s total free-to-access...

Business

‘Transformed’ Channel 5 posts record profit

Channel 5 has posted a record-breaking operating profit of £58.4 million for the 2016 financial year. It marks the UK broadcaster’s first consecutive years...

Business

Kaplan to leave Discovery amid restructure

Marjorie Kaplan is to leave Discovery following a restructure of its London-based creative teams. The president of international content will leave her role at...

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Channel 5 launching ‘Best Of’ channel

Channel 5 is set to launch a ‘Best Of’ channel My5 early next month. The free-to-air channel, which will broadcast the ‘best content from...

News

Business

ITN seals deal to make Channel 5 news until 2020

ITN has struck a £35 million deal with Channel 5 to continue to make its news programmes until 2020. The four-year deal represents a...

News

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Channel 5 goes HD

Channel 5 has launched in HD. The UK’s third largest commercial network is now available in HD via Freeview, Freesat, YouView, BT and TalkTalk....

News

Business

UKTV surpasses Sky and Channel 5

UKTV has propelled itself ahead of Sky and Channel 5 in its share of commercial impacts.Reporting record-breaking results in 2015, UKTV’s growth can largely...

News

Features

MediaGeniX to take UKTV “beyond 2016”

Dave, one of ten UKTV linear channels, has been part and parcel of the UK broadcast setup ever since its Freeview relaunch in 2007....

Features

Business

Demand 5 rebrands

Channel 5’s video-on-demand service Demand 5 has been rebranded My5

News

Production & Post

DPP announces new standards

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has announced common technical delivery standards for high definition commercials/sponsorship and promotions/presentation material

Business

UKTV celebrates record-breaking year

UKTV is celebrating its most successful year after record-breaking viewing drew it level with Channel 5, as well as Sky’s wholly-owned channels, including movies...

Business

BBC Earth grows with new original commissions

BBC Worldwide today announced new programming for global factual brand BBC Earth, with two more series green lit for the global channel

News

Production & Post

ITN Productions kicks off three seasons of Football League with EVS

ITN Productions, the in-house TV production business from ITN, recently signed a three season contract to produce all content from the Football League to...

News

Business

Minority groups under-represented by PSB despite ‘significant contribution’ to UK broadcasting

Ofcom has today published the conclusions of its third review of public service TV broadcasting, the first review since 2008. Ofcom’s review finds that...

News

Business

BARB releases new Viewing Report

BARB (Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board) has released its second Viewing Report, which provides a review of the way people are watching television and how...

News

Analysis

TV Catchup – (nearly) the end of the road?

DLA Piper’s John Cloke (senior associate), Patrick Mitchell (legal director), and Jonathan Salt (trainee), assess the recent case brought by UK free-to-air broadcasters against...

Features

Business

Broadcasters could give go ahead to seven-party debates

The Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru are now expected to join the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP in televised leaders’ debates ahead...

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ITN chooses BT Media for news transmission

At the iconic BT tower last night, as London’s skyline exploded in scores of fireworks displays, the company announced a new multi-year contract with...

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