Media Guardian reports that staff at Granada Media belonging to the NUJ, Bectu and Amicus will vote on strike action in a pay dispute after Granada imposed a 2% pay rise. If the strike went ahead, it would affect output...
Posts by Ian Beaumont from 2003
Granada Industrial Dispute in ITV's future?
iSportsTV arrives on Sky Digital
There seems to be no let up in the number of channels that are ready to launch, and the number of companies launching new channels onto the market. The latest to launch is iSportsTV from the team behind Avago. Broadcasting...
Changes on the quiet.
Sometimes, when a change takes place, it does so with enormous fanfare, other times, it barely gets noticed. This is one of those changes that happened at some point recently, and nobody noticed. Somehow, a deal has obviously been done...
New Channels Coming Soon...
From Transdiffusion's Bitstream department, comes news of new channels coming soon to a television near you. VH-2. Years after the original VH-1 launched, the team at MTV Networks have finally gotten around to launching a VH-2, the VH of the...
BBC Three liquidizes Liquid News
It has been speculated on since the death of Christopher Price in 2002, but now we know for sure. BBC Three is bringing the axe down on Liquid News. The entertainment news programme, which grew out of BBC News 24's...
