Broadcast is a monthly magazine for the United Kingdom television and radio industry, owned by Media Business Insight.
History 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. Ascential later sold the magazine as part of a management buyout of Media Business Insight division in 2015.
Description 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.
Notable former staff Dan Wootton (former News of the World TV editor)
Awards
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.
Broadcast Awards 2024 nominations and winners
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+29th annual awards: 8 February 2024 - Host: Sue Perkins Best Children's Programme Best Comedy Programme Best Current Affairs Programme A Kind of Spark (BBC) I Am Your Mother (Star Wars: Visions Volume 2) (Disney+) Lloyd of the Flies (CITV) Newsround Special: Ukraine - The Children's Story (BBC) Operation Ouch! Let's Talk About Cancer (CBBC) The Rubbish World of Dave Spud (CITV) | valign="top" | Black Ops (BBC) Changing Ends (ITVX) Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC) Everyone Else Burns (Channel 4) Juice (BBC) The Change (Channel 4) | valign="top" | Russell Brand: In Plain Sight (Channel 4) Inside the Iranian Uprising (BBC) Putin vs The West (BBC) The Crossing (ITV1) Under Poisoned Skies (BBC News Arabic) Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk (BBC) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Daytime Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Documentary Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Documentary Series |- | valign="top" | Scam Interceptors (BBC) Lingo (ITV1) Lorraine: Breast Cancer Special (ITV1) Make It At Market (BBC) Strangers on a Plane (Channel 4) The Finish Line (BBC) | valign="top" | Lyra (Channel 4) London Bridge: Facing Terror (Channel 4) Panorama Mariupol: The People's Story (BBC) Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial (BBC) Stranger In My Family (BBC) This World: The Shamima Begum Story (BBC) | valign="top" | Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (BBC) Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All (Disney+) Evacuation (Channel 4) George Michael: Outed (Channel 4) Murder In The Pacific (BBC) Three Mothers, Two Babies, And A Scandal (Amazon Prime Video) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Drama Series or Serial ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Entertainment Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Multichannel Programme |- | valign="top" | Happy Valley (BBC and AMC) Blue Lights (BBC) Hijack (Apple TV+) I Hate Suzie Too (Sky Atlantic) The English (BBC) The Sixth Commandment (BBC) The 1% Club (ITV1) Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1) I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (ITV1) Michael McIntyre's Big Show (BBC) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC) The Traitors (BBC) | valign="top" | I Kissed A Boy (BBC) Married at First Sight UK (E4) Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight (ITVX) Sexsomnia: Case Closed? (BBC) Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive (Sky Arts) The Ice Cream Wars (BBC Scotland) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Music Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best News Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Original Programme |- | valign="top" | Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (BBC) Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium (Disney+) Glastonbury 2023 (BBC) One Big Night of Musicals by The National Lottery (BBC) "Sam Smith Live at The Royal Albert Hall" (TikTok) The Coronation Concert (BBC) | valign="top" | ITV News at Ten: The Lucy Letby Verdict (ITV1) BBC News at Ten: Wagner's March on Moscow (BBC) Channel 4 News: Live in Adana (Channel 4) Disaster Zone: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake (Sky News) Good Morning Britain (ITV1) Newsnight: Wagner Coup (BBC) | valign="top" | The Piano (Channel 4) Dreaming Whilst Black (BBC) Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat (Channel 4) How To Survive A Dictator With Munya Chawawa (Channel 4) I Kissed A Boy (BBC) The Traitors (BBC) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Popular Factual Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Pre-School Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Single Drama |- | valign="top" | Joe Lycett Vs Beckham, Got Your Back at Xmas (Channel 4) At Home with the Furys (Netflix) Clarkson's Farm (Prime Video) Sort Your Life Out (BBC) The Martin Lewis Money Show Live (ITV1) The Yorkshire Vet (Channel 5) | valign="top" | 123 Number Squad! (Sky kids) Pip and Posy (Milkshake! and Sky Kids) Pop Paper City (Milkshake!) Roots & Fruits (CBeebies) The Makery (Sky Kids) What's In Your Bag? (CBeebies) | valign="top" | I Am Ruth (Channel 4) Black Mirror: Demon 79 (Netflix) Consent (Channel 4) Mayflies (BBC) There She Goes - 414 (BBC) Y Sŵn (S4C) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Soap/Continuing Drama ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Specialist Factual Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Sports Programme |- | valign="top" | Casualty Coronation Street EastEnders Emmerdale Hollyoaks Waterloo Road Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC) Anorexic (Channel 5) Head On: Rugby, Dementia and Me (BBC) How The Holocaust Began (BBC) The Holy Land and Us: Our Untold Stories (BBC) Windrush: Portraits of a Generation (BBC) | valign="top" | Monday Night Football (Sky Sports) FA Cup 4th Round: Wrexham v Sheffield United (BBC) FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 (ITV1) Men's World Cup Final: France v Argentina (BBC) Premier League on Prime: Arsenal v Manchester City (Prime Video) The Ashes (Sky Sports Cricket) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| International Programme Sales ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Post-Production House ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Emerging Indie Of The Year |- | valign="top" | Dreaming Whilst Black Ancient Egypt By Train Planet Sex with Cara Delevinge Rogue Heroes The Elon Musk Show Wreck runVT dock10 Gorilla Post Production Halo Sky Post Production Splice Post Curious Films Mindhouse Productions Motive Pictures Wonderhood Studios Best Independent Production Company Channel Of The Year Special Recognition Award Studio Lambert Clapperboard Studios Fulwell 73 Hartswood Films Optomen Television Twofour BBC One BBC Three BBC Two Channel 4 ITV1 Sky News Martin Lewis {| class=wikitable style=font-size:100% ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="100%"| TV Moment of the Year
Succession (Logan Roy's death) Beckham (David queries Victoria claiming she's from a working-class family) Eurovision Song Contest (Former Eurovision contestants in Liverpool & Ukraine join for a performance of You'll Never Walk Alone) Happy Valley (Catherine caught Clare in a lie) The Bear (S2 takes a stressful family Christmas to the next level) The Piano (Blind & Neurodiverse Lucy stunning commuters in Leeds railway station)
2023 nominations and winners
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+28th annual awards presented: 8 February 2023 – Host: Sue Perkins Best Children's Programme Best Comedy Programme Best Daytime Programme Robin Robin (Netflix) Efaciwîs (Evacuees) (S4C) FYI Investigates – "Escape From Ukraine" (Sky Kids and Sky News) Gym Stars (CBBC) My Life: Dancing Queen (CBBC) Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas (BBC & Netflix) | valign="top" | Derry Girls (Channel 4) Am I Being Unreasonable? Big Boys Cheaters Stath Lets Flats Wedding Season (Disney+) | valign="top" | Moneybags (Channel 4) Expert Witness (BBC One) Good Morning Britain Scam Interceptors (BBC One) The Bidding Room (BBC One) The Chase |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Documentary Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Documentary Series ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Drama Series or Serial |- | valign="top" | The Real Mo Farah (BBC One) Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (Sky Documentaries) Look Away (Sky Documentaries) Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story (BBC Two) Rape: Who's on Trial? (Channel 4) The Tinder Swindler (Netflix) | valign="top" | Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story (Netflix) Big Oil v the World (BBC Two) Curse of the Chippendales (Amazon Prime Video) The Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime (Channel 4) Scam Land: Money, Mayhem and Maseratis (BBC Three) We Are Black and British (BBC Two) | valign="top" | This is Going to Hurt (BBC and AMC) Bad Sisters (Apple TV+) Landscapers (Sky Atlantic) The Responder The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe Top Boy (Netflix) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Entertainment Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Multichannel Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Music Programme |- | valign="top" | The 1% Club (ITV1) Big Zuu's Big Eats (Dave) Gogglebox Life and Rhymes (Sky Arts) Strictly Come Dancing The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan Drych: Fi, Rhyw ac Anabledd (S4C) Big Zuu's Big Eats (Dave) Brickies (BBC Three) Love Island (ITV2) The Hunt for Bible John (BBC Scotland) Ysgol Ni: Y Moelwyn (S4C) | valign="top" | An Audience with Adele (ITV1) BRIT Awards 2022 (ITV1) Charles Hazlewood: Reinventing the Orchestra (Sky Arts) Flackstock (Sky Max and Sky Showcase) Liam Gallagher: 48 Hours at Rockfield (Sky Max, Sky Arts, Now) The Glasgow Mela 2022 (BBC Scotland) |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best News/Current Affairs Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Original Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Popular Factual Programme |- | valign="top" | The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN (BBC Two) Afghanistan: No Country for Women (ITV1) Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin (ITV1) Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution (Channel 4) Panorama: "SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?" Ukraine: Life Under Attack (Channel 4) | valign="top" | Mood (BBC Three) Am I Being Unreasonable? Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Open House: The Great Sex Experiment (Channel 4) Queens of Rap (Channel 4) Then Barbara Met Alan | valign="top" | Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich (ITV2) 90 Day Fiancé (Discovery+) Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams (BBC One) The Martin Lewis Money Show Live The Apprentice Trip Hazard |- ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="34%"| Best Post Production House ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Pre-School Programme ! style="background:#FAEB86;" width="33%"| Best Single Drama |- | valign="top" | Halo Post Dock 10 Fifty Fifty Films at 59 Fitzrovia Post Production Storm | valign="top" | Lovely Little Farm (Apple TV+) Big Cook, Little Cook Circle Square (Milkshake!) JoJo & Gran Gran Odo (Milkshake!) Show Me How (Milkshake!) | valign="top" | Then Barbara Met Alan (BBC Two) Death of England: Face to Face (Sky Arts) Life and Death in the Warehouse My Name is Leon (BBC Two) On The Edge: Cradled (Channel 4)