BNET Industries
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Dow Jones Description
TV, Radio & Internet Broadcasting Services
COO
John SmithNumber of Employees 27,148
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Television Broadcasting: 515120
Recent Events
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BBC celebrating �sweet' win with Rightful Udder release
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BBC Launches iPlayer-Like Broadband Video Service Providing Coverage of Political Institutions
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BBC and Arqiva announce agreement to enable roll-out of terrestrial HD network
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Dorling Kindersley Signs MasterChef Brand
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BBC Unveils Revamped Red-Button Interactive TV Service for Children's Channel, CBeebies
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Alesha Dixon's strictly dancing till 2am
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Will BBC Launch Paid VOD Globally?
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Ex-army chief Sir Richard Dannatt to be made Tory peer
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BBC Adopts IP for Audio Transit
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When Monty Python Left WNET
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PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - Oct 5
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Friends Creators, LeBlanc Deliver TV Industry Send-up For Showtime
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Distributors Event Focuses on Tapeless Workflow for the Production Industry
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Revel Horwood: I wish theyd sacked me, not Arlene Phillips
News & Analysis
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And in the real world....MySpace, Google, M&S, BBC, ITV, BT, Costa, Whitbread, Aviva, Channel 4, GM and Vauxhall
BNET
- 2009-11-05
MySpace, once the centerpiece of Rupert Murdoch's digital strategy, has fallen "significantly" short of expectations and is jeopardising a critical $900m internet search agreement with Google.Source: The Financial Times The UK is "skint" and the next Government could be forced to raise VAT beyond 17.5pc as it sets about "refilling...
Freesat to air fresh ad campaign
BNET
- 2009-11-04
The campaign for the subscription-free TV satellite service will focus on its Freesat+ and Freesat HD services. It will illustrate the benefits of pausing, recording and rewinding live TV as well as the immersive experience of HD TV. Breaking on Saturday night on ITV during Piers Morgan's Life Stories programme,...
Ultra-fast Trading a Risk-Myners
ReutersUK
- 2009-11-03
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Speculators using computer-based high frequency trading to buy and sell shares could damage companies, the BBC quoted the financial services ministers as saying.With high-frequency trading, banks, hedge funds and proprietary shops use sophisticated algorithms to earn profit from market imbalances and tiny arbitrage spreads. Critics say...
BBC to slash management pay bill
BNET
- 2009-10-29
The BBC's £79m pay bill for senior management is to be cut by a quarter under plans approved yesterday by the broadcaster's regulatory body, which will see more than 100 positions axed by 2013. Executive directors also face an "indefinite" suspension of bonuses as part of the scheme, put forward...
BBC to cut senior management bill
BNET
- 2009-10-29
The BBC's £79m pay bill for senior management is set to fall by a quarter and more than 100 positions will go by 2013 under plans approved by the broadcaster's regulatory body. Executive directors face an "indefinite" suspension of bonuses under the scheme, put forward after the BBC Trust ordered...
BBC NEWS | Business | ING to divide and repay state aid
BNET
- 2009-10-26
ING plans to make itself a much smaller firm Dutch financial services group ING has announced that it will divide itself into separate companies, splitting its banking and insurance businesses. Once it has been separated, ING plans to sell the insurance division. ...
Osborne Eyes Biz Credit Scheme
ReutersUK
- 2009-10-24
LONDON (Reuters UK) - Conservative finance spokesman George Osborne on Saturday called for a loan guarantee scheme to boost business, saying a lack of credit remained one of the root causes of the country's economic woes.Osborne told BBC radio there was a "catastrophic" lack of confidence in Britain's economic leadership,...
BBC gives oxygen to far Right
BNET
- 2009-10-23
October 24, 2009 LONDON: The leader of Britain's far-right party outlined his vision in a controversial television debut, which critics fear could help his whites-only party ease into the political mainstream. As protesters broke into the BBC headquarters, British National Party leader Nick Griffin feuded with panellists and a hostile...
Gabbling Griffin in the BBC bear pit
Financial Times
- 2009-10-22
The BBC programme trail before the Ten O'Clock News promised: "Life. As You've Never Seen It Before." It was ostensibly promoting David Attenborough's latest, but it sounded like an elaborate in-joke. Either way, they got that right.This was not Question Time, it was a bear-bait, with Nick Griffin as...
News: Top Gear ready to park itself at Nine
BNET
- 2009-10-21
Top Gear is the highest rating programme on SBS but Nine is knocking on the BBC door in an effort to give the three mischievous Brits a new Australian home. The Top Gear Boys Top Gear, the BBC's juggernaut motoring show hosted by three mischievous British petrol-heads, is poised to...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| John Smith | COO |
| Mark Thompson | Director General & Editor-in-Chief |
| Carolyn Fairbairn | Director, Strategy & Distr |
| Dan Percival | Director, Programme |
| Helen Boaden | Director, News |
| Jana Bennett | Director, TV |
| Jenny Abramsky | Director, Radio & Music |
| Mark Byford | General Director |
| Mark Damazer | Deputy Director, News |
| Richard Sambrook | Director, World Service & Global News |
| Tim Davie | Director, Marketing |
| Lisa Owen-Jones | Manager, Marketing, BBC Concert Orchestra |
| Alan Booth | Controller, Marketing |
| Lorraine Heggessey | Controller |
| Anna Carragher | Head, N Ireland |
| Anne Morrison | Head, Contemporary Factuals |
| Deepa Fernandes | Producer |
| Helen Kellie | Head, Marketing |
| Mark A Wood | Broadcast Engineer |
| Roger Mosey | Head, TV News |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Michael Grade | Chairman |
| Anthony Salz | Vice Chairman |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | COO | Current |
| BBC Worldwide Limited | Chief Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director General & Editor-in-Chief | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Strategy & Distr | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Strategy & Distr | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Programme | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Programme | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, News | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, News | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| BBC Worldwide Limited | Director, Television | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, TV | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, TV | Former |
| TLC, LLC | Former | |
| The London School of Economics | MSc(Dist) | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Radio & Music | Current |
| British Film Institute | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Radio & Music | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | General Director | Current |
| Lincoln School | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Deputy Director, News | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Deputy Director, News | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, World Service & Global News | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, World Service & Global News | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Marketing | Current |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing, Europe | Former |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Director, Marketing | Former |
| PepsiCo, Inc. | UK Marketing Manager | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Manager, Marketing, BBC Concert Orchestra | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Controller, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Controller | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, N Ireland | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, Contemporary Factuals | Current |
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| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Iran Project | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cellcast Technologies | Chief Technology Officer, Cellcast Communications | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Broadcast Engineer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Head, TV News | Current |
| PM Company LLC | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, LLC | Executive Investor | Current |
| British Broadcasting Corporation | Vice Chairman | Current |
| The Media Standards Trust Limited | Executive Vice Chairman, Nm Rothschild | Current |
| The Eden-Project | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Legal Awards | Executive Vice Chairman, Nm Rothschild | Current |
| Rothschild Inc. | Executive Vice Chairman | Current |
| Business for New Europe | Executive Vice Chairman | Current |
| Advisory Panel | Board of Directors | Current |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Senior Partner | Former |
| Freshfields | Senior Partner | Former |
| Freshfields | Corporate Lawyer | Former |
| Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer | Corporate Lawyer | Former |
| Business.com, Inc. | Trustee | Former |
| Exeter University | Doctor of Laws | Former |
| The Media Standards Trust Limited | Board of Directors | Former |
Executive News
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Murdoch son: BBC threatens independent journalism
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Murdoch son: BBC threatens independent journalism
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