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Winners announced for BAFTA Television Awards 2025

BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises 2025 at a ceremony in London. Celebrating the best of television broadcast in 2024, the ceremony was hosted by Alan Cumming, with musical performances from Jessie J, Tom Grennan and Esther Abrami. Mr Loverman was the only programme to win two categories: […]

May 11, 2025

Whisper appoints Lancaster as CTO

The Whisper Group, a production company specialising in creative storytelling for sports, documentaries, branded content unscripted entertainment, and eSports and events, has appointed Richard Lancaster as its Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Lancaster, who will start at Whisper later in March, has impressive and extensive experience in helping deliver some of the biggest and most iconic […]

March 5, 2025

Ofcom licenses 2,000+ frequencies for Glastonbury

The Glastonbury festival is one of the UK’s biggest cultural events. This year some 210,000 people attended the event from June 26th to 30th, which was headlined by Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA. And although the main Pyramid stage is where the headline acts perform, the event is huge, with festival-goers entertained by acts and […]

July 5, 2024

BBC to livestream Dua Lipa, Coldplay Glastonbury sets globally

The BBC has announced it will livestream headline Glastonbury performances to a global audience, with Dua Lipa and Coldplay’s 2024 Pyramid Stage sets available to view on the recently relaunched BBC website. Music fans around the world can tune into the stream, which is produced by BBC Studios, to watch Dua Lipa’s headline performance on […]

June 24, 2024

New Hey Duggee episode to mark summer solstice

BBC Studios Kids & Family has announced that a new episode of Hey Duggee called The Carrot Badge, will premiere on CBeebies on June 28th. The new Season 5 episode kicks off the summer music festival season for little ones and their parents as well as marking the summer solstice. Hey Duggee brings seasonal fun […]

June 20, 2024By Nik Roseveare

BBC sets out Annual Plan

The BBC has published its Annual Plan for 2024/25. It sets out how the Corporation will begin work to focus on three essential roles, announced by the Director-General earlier this week, to deliver more for audiences: Pursuing truth with no agenda Backing the best British storytelling Bringing people together In the year ahead the BBC […]

March 28, 2024

BT announces live TV tech breakthrough

BT has unveiled what it describes as a pioneering new technology, designed to be a more reliable, quality-focused and sustainable way of delivering live content over the Internet. Multicast-Assisted Unicast Delivery (MAUD) technology is aimed at improving viewer experiences and increasing the efficiency of the complex journey that content takes to reach them. Major broadcasters, […]

December 8, 2023By Colin Mann

Particle6 Productions makes 3 new hires

Particle6 Productions, the UK indie founded by Eline van der Velden, has announced three new appointments to the team, and doubles down on its commitment to AI as part of a new growth strategy focused on wide-ranging, screen-based opportunities. The new hires are Zoë Hustwitt, who joins the team as production manager, Daria Golubkova who […]

August 31, 2023

Vodafone: Data demand up 99% at Glastonbury

Vodafone, Glastonbury’s Official Connectivity Partner, has revealed that 169 terabytes of data was consumed by data-hungry Festival-goers – the most Vodafone data ever used at Glastonbury Festival and 99 per cent more than 2022. Data stats show that 450 gigabytes of data was uploaded during Elton John’s headline performance on June 26th. 20 terabytes of […]

June 30, 2023By Nik Roseveare

Elton John pulls record audiences for BBC Glastonbury

A record 21.6 million people, over a third of the UK population, watched the BBC’s Glastonbury TV coverage with over 40 hours of linear programming available to audiences. The audience was up 7 per cent on last year across linear television. Sir Elton John’s headline set on June 25th on BBC One received the biggest […]

June 26, 2023By Nik Roseveare