North AI, a new Manchester-based AI startup for the media sector, has received £280,000 grant funding from Innovate UK, the UK’s Innovation Agency, with further £300,000 funding led by SFC Capital, as well as private angel investors from the media industry. North AI has been co-founded by the team from ‘Paus’, a VC-backed tech start-up […]
IP protection body FACT has reported that, on January 10th, Jordan Longbottom, a 42-year-old man from Manchester, received a 22-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to charges of advertising and selling unauthorised decoders. The decoders were designed for fraudulent use, allowing users to access pay-TV services without remunerating legitimate providers, significantly undermining their commercial interests. […]
Yeti Television has announced that AMC Networks International UK (AMCNI UK) has commissioned the second season of the hit true crime series The Truth About My Murder (10×60’), which is set to air on top factual entertainment channel True Crime – formerly known as CBS Reality – in early 2024. True Crime is a joint […]
Canada-based satellite and aerospace business MDA has announced a strategic expansion in the UK. The focus of this will be a new facility in Stevenage and an expansion of its existing facility in Manchester. As part of its UK expansion, MDA says it will hire 75 new employees in the UK by the end of […]
Specialist audio production company, The Voiceover Gallery, has announced it is expanding its London and Manchester HQ’s with four new appointments. The new hires will work across the company’s business development and postproduction departments. Rak Bhattacharjee, Alice Murphy, Pip O’Marra and Max Russell join The Voiceover Gallery, which is the only UK company that specialises […]
Following on from Kevin Lygo, ITV’s Managing Director, Media & Entertainment, and his Commissioning Team giving an in person Producers’ Briefing at HOME Theatre Manchester on September 27th, ITV has announcd a brand new development initiative being piloted in the nations and regions – Amplify: The Regions. The aim of the pilot is to further […]
STV Studios has acquired unscripted television production network Greenbird Media for approximately £24 million (€28m). London-based Greenbird is also a service provider, offering a back-office solution which lets creatives to focus on pipeline development and programme production. STV says the deal accelerates the growth of STV Studios by more than trebling the number of returning […]
Vodafone claims to be first to offer 5G Standalone in the UK starting in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Cardiff. A 5G Standalone network, unlike previous 5G deployments, does not rely on 4G. The operator claims this will bring 5G Standalone (which it calls 5G Ultra) coverage to another million people, improve phone battery life (by […]
Gaming, entertainment, arts and culture agency, Premier, has announced expansion into the North of England with new offices in Manchester. Premier North’s office is based in a new creative hub in the heart of the city, near the old Granada Studios building. The new branch of the company will work with the London head office […]
Creative company Saatchi & Saatchi has announced ITV as its founding partner for Upriser, the free creative schools platform that it launched at the end of 2022. ITV is the first major name to be announced, with a number of other partners currently being matched and onboarded at schools across the UK as part of […]