Six-part co-production Wild China has won three awards at this year's Emmy's. A BBC / CTV / Travel Channel co-production in association with Canal+, Wild China picked up awards for Outstanding Editing, Outstanding Cinematography Nature Documentaries, Outstanding Music and Sound The series is a partnership between the BBC's Natural History Unit and China Television Media (CTV), the (commercial) production arm of Chinese state broadcaster, CCTV. This partnership provided the joint production team … [Read more...] about Broadcasters exploit Emmys buzz
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BBC Worldwide appoints new head for India production base
London/India - BBC Worldwide has appointed Myleeta Aga as general manager & creative head of BBC Worldwide India Productions. Myleeta will take up her new post at BBCW’s production base in Mumbai on October 14. Myleeta will report to Colin Jarvis, director of international formats for BBCW. Formerly content head and co-founder of the TV guide channel What’s On India, Myleeta takes over from Saul Nassé who returns to the UK in November to take on the role of controller of learning at … [Read more...] about BBC Worldwide appoints new head for India production base
Part privatization possible for BBC Worldwide
London - The part-privatization of the BBC's lucrative commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, is being considered, according to The Guardian. BBC director general, Mark Thompson is quoted as saying, "One of the things we should look at over this period is whether 100% ownership of Worldwide is essential going forward." Report says that the options under consideration include a stockmarket listing of the business, which had annual revenues of about £1bn last year. If the part-privatization were to go … [Read more...] about Part privatization possible for BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide appoints new Head of Development
BBC Worldwide has appointed Matt Pritchard as the new head of development at BBC Worldwide. Pritchard is charged with generating original format ideas for international exploitation and roll out across BBC Worldwide's growing network of international production bases in the Americas, France, Australia and India. The team's aim is to raise revenues generated from BBC Worldwide's format business by tapping into local demand and developing original productions around the world. Pritchard will take … [Read more...] about BBC Worldwide appoints new Head of Development
CCTV launches four channels to Europe with GlobeCast
Beijing - GlobeCast has launched four additional channels for Chinese broadcaster CCTV on its platform on the EUROBIRD 9A satellite for pan-European coverage. CCTV-4, CCTV Español (Spanish), CCTV Russian and CCTV Arabia now have access to a potential audience of 300 million households. GlobeCast's solution for CCTV includes fibre delivery to its Brookmans Park facility outside London, where the channels are uplinked to the EUROBIRD 9A satellite at 9°E. CCTV is the latest major broadcaster to … [Read more...] about CCTV launches four channels to Europe with GlobeCast
Australia: free-to-air broadcasters to join forces
Sydney - Australia's free-to-air broadcasters will join forces to create an on-demand streaming video service to TV screens in an attempt to deal with serious threats to their audience base, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. The ABC's head of TV, Kim Dalton, said the move, likely some time next year, would be the "next major chapter in free-to-air TV". It comes as a host of emerging broadcasting rivals, such as TV set manufacturers, games console producers and digital video recorders like TiVo, … [Read more...] about Australia: free-to-air broadcasters to join forces