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Editor | Chris Curtis |
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Categories | Media and television |
Frequency | Monthly |
Circulation | 6,383 (Jan–Dec 2012) [1] |
Founded | 1973 |
Company | Media Business Insight |
Country | United Kingdom |
Based in | London |
Language | English |
Website | BroadcastNow.co.uk |
OCLC | 1043120303 |
Broadcast is a monthly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry, owned by Media Business Insight.
Broadcast was started in 1973 by Rod Allen, who went on to work at LWT, HTV and HarperCollinsInteractive. He was most recently head of the Department of Journalism at City University, London, until he retired in 2006.
The magazine was later owned by Thomson Information Services, EMAP acquired it in 1993. [2] Ascential later sold the magazine as part of a management buyout of Media Business Insight division in 2015. [3]
The magazine covers a wide range of news and issues affecting the professional broadcast market in the UK. It has regular monthly sections covering news, commissioning, facilities, analysis, opinion, interview, platforms, production and ratings. Broadcast also often has a special feature covering an issue relevant to the industry. It is owned by Media Business Insight, a publishing, events and information business that also includes Screen International .
Since 1996 the magazine has conferred the annual Broadcast Awards, in a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, to recognise and reward excellence in and around the UK television programming industry. Additionally, each June since 2005, the magazine has held the annual Broadcast Digital Channel Awards specifically for the digital TV industry, recognising and rewarding innovation, creativity and commercial success.
In 2019 the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards were instituted to celebrate the exceptional teams behind the most outstanding broadcast productions of the year, and 2021 saw the inaugural Broadcast Sport Awards.
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International Programme Sales | Best Post-Production House | Emerging Indie Of The Year |
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Best Entertainment Programme | Best Lockdown Programme – Entertainment, Comedy and Scripted | Best Multichannel Programme |
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Best Lockdown Programme – News, Documentaries and Factual | Best Lockdown Programme – Sport and Live | Best Lockdown Programme – Factual Entertainment, Popular Factual & Kids |
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Winner: Killing Eve (Villanelle breaks into Eve's kitchen)
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TV Moment of the Year |
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Winner: BBC World News (Professor Robert Kelly’s live interview is gatecrashed by his kids)
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TV Moment of the Year |
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Winner: Planet Earth II (Racer Snakes vs. Iguanas)
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Winner: Japan v South Africa, Rugby World Cup – ITV Sport (Japan's last minute try defeats South Africa)
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Best Broadcast Award-winning programme of the past 20 years |
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Winner: The Office (Best Comedy Programme – 2003)
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