Broadcast (magazine)

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
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

Best Children's Programme	Best Comedy Programme	Best Current Affairs Programme
A Kind of Spark * I Am Your Mother**** Lloyd of the Flies Newsround Special: Ukraine - The Children's Story Operation Ouch! Let's Talk About Cancer The Rubbish World of Dave Spud	Black Ops * Changing Ends *Dreaming Whilst Black *Everyone Else Burns *Juice *The Change	Russell Brand: In Plain Sight * Inside the Iranian Uprising**** Putin vs The West The Crossing Under Poisoned Skies Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk
Best Daytime Programme	Best Documentary Programme	Best Documentary Series
Scam Interceptors * Lingo *Lorraine: Breast Cancer Special *Make It At Market *Strangers on a Plane *The Finish Line	Lyra * London Bridge: Facing Terror**** Panorama Mariupol: The People's Story Scandalous: Phone Hacking on Trial Stranger In My Family This World: The Shamima Begum Story	Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland * Ed Sheeran: The Sum of It All *Evacuation *George Michael: Outed *Murder In The Pacific *Three Mothers, Two Babies, And A Scandal
Best Drama Series or Serial	Best Entertainment Programme	Best Multichannel Programme
Happy Valley * Blue Lights *Hijack *I Hate Suzie Too *The English *The Sixth Commandment	The 1% Club * Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway**** I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Michael McIntyre's Big Show Strictly Come Dancing The Traitors	I Kissed A Boy * Married at First Sight UK *Rolf Harris: Hiding in Plain Sight *Sexsomnia: Case Closed? *Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive *The Ice Cream Wars
Best Music Programme	Best News Programme	Best Original Programme
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 * Elton John Live: Farewell from Dodger Stadium**** Glastonbury 2023 One Big Night of Musicals by The National Lottery "Sam Smith Live at The Royal Albert Hall" The Coronation Concert	ITV News at Ten: The Lucy Letby Verdict * BBC News at Ten: Wagner's March on Moscow *Channel 4 News: Live in Adana *Disaster Zone: The Turkey-Syria Earthquake *Good Morning Britain *Newsnight: Wagner Coup	The Piano * Dreaming Whilst Black**** Gregg Wallace: The British Miracle Meat How To Survive A Dictator With Munya Chawawa I Kissed A Boy The Traitors
Best Popular Factual Programme	Best Pre-School Programme	Best Single Drama
Joe Lycett Vs Beckham, Got Your Back at Xmas * At Home with the Furys *Clarkson's Farm *Sort Your Life Out *The Martin Lewis Money Show Live *The Yorkshire Vet	123 Number Squad! * Pip and Posy**** Pop Paper City Roots & Fruits The Makery What's In Your Bag?	I Am Ruth * Black Mirror: Demon 79 *Consent *Mayflies *There She Goes - 414 *Y Sŵn
Best Soap/Continuing Drama	Best Specialist Factual Programme	Best Sports Programme
Casualty * Coronation Street * EastEnders * Emmerdale * Hollyoaks * Waterloo Road	Inside Our Autistic Minds * Anorexic**** Head On: Rugby, Dementia and Me How The Holocaust Began The Holy Land and Us: Our Untold Stories Windrush: Portraits of a Generation	Monday Night Football * FA Cup 4th Round: Wrexham v Sheffield United *FIFA Qatar World Cup 2022 *Men's World Cup Final: France v Argentina *Premier League on Prime: Arsenal v Manchester City *The Ashes
International Programme Sales	Best Post-Production House	Emerging Indie Of The Year
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

2023 nominations and winners

Best Children's Programme	Best Comedy Programme	Best Daytime Programme
Robin Robin * Efaciwîs**** FYI Investigates –'' "Escape From Ukraine" *Gym Stars* **My Life: Dancing Queen* **Shaun the Sheep: The Flight Before Christmas*	Derry Girls * Am I Being Unreasonable? Big Boys Cheaters Stath Lets Flats Wedding Season	Moneybags *** Expert Witness Good Morning Britain* **Scam Interceptors* **The Bidding Room* **The Chase*
Best Documentary Programme	Best Documentary Series	Best Drama Series or Serial
The Real Mo Farah * Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes Look Away Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story Rape: Who's on Trial? The Tinder Swindler	Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story *** Big Oil v the World Curse of the Chippendales* **The Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime* **Scam Land: Money, Mayhem and Maseratis* **We Are Black and British*	This is Going to Hurt * Bad Sisters Landscapers The Responder The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe Top Boy
Best Entertainment Programme	Best Multichannel Programme	Best Music Programme
The 1% Club * Big Zuu's Big Eats Gogglebox Life and Rhymes Strictly Come Dancing The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan	Drych: Fi, Rhyw ac Anabledd *** Big Zuu's Big Eats Brickies* **Love Island* **The Hunt for Bible John* **Ysgol Ni: Y Moelwyn*	An Audience with Adele * BRIT Awards 2022 Charles Hazlewood: Reinventing the Orchestra Flackstock Liam Gallagher: 48 Hours at Rockfield The Glasgow Mela 2022
Best News/Current Affairs Programme	Best Original Programme	Best Popular Factual Programme
The Whistleblowers: Inside the UN *** Afghanistan: No Country for Women Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin* **Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution* *Panorama: "SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime?" **Ukraine: Life Under Attack*	Mood * Am I Being Unreasonable? Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Open House: The Great Sex Experiment Queens of Rap Then Barbara Met Alan	Olivia Attwood: Getting Filthy Rich *** 90 Day Fiancé Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams* **The Martin Lewis Money Show Live* **The Apprentice* **Trip Hazard*
Best Post Production House	Best Pre-School Programme	Best Single Drama
Halo Post * Dock 10 * Fifty Fifty * Films at 59 * Fitzrovia Post Production * Storm	Lovely Little Farm * Big Cook, Little Cook Circle Square JoJo & Gran Gran Odo Show Me How	Then Barbara Met Alan *** Death of England: Face to Face Life and Death in the Warehouse* **My Name is Leon* **On The Edge: Cradled* **The House*
Best Soap/Continuing Drama	Best Specialist Factual Programme	Best Sports Programme
Emmerdale *** Ackley Bridge * Casualty * Coronation Street * EastEnders * Hollyoaks**	Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing * Aids: The Unheard Tapes Britain's Secret War Babies Elizabeth: The Unseen Queen Frozen Planet II Survivors: Portraits of the Holocaust	Women's Euro 2022 * ITV Racing – The Derby Platinum Jubilee Special NFL Super Bowl Preview Show Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 Monday Night Football The Hundred
International Programme Sales	Emerging Indie of the Year	Best Independent Production Company
The 1% Club * Five Guys A Week Ridley Road The Man with a Penis On His Arm The Responder The Tourist	Forest * Buzz 16 * Honey Bee * Long Story TV * Mam Tor Productions * The Format Factory	Sister * CPL Productions * Dancing Ledge Productions * See-Saw Films * South Shore * Whisper
Channel of the Year	Special Recognition Award
BBC One * BBC Two * BBC Three * Channel 4 * ITV1 * Sky News	Huw Edwards

TV Moment of the Year

Derry Girls
* Bad Sisters
* Doctor Who
* Euro 2022 final
* Love Island
* Paddington meets The Queen
* Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
* The Tinder Swindler
* The Traitors
* This is Going To Hurt''