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BBC offers production company Xtra work.(News)
Production company UBC has secured a series of BBC digital radio commissions, helping to offset the loss of its Hit 40 UK production deal.
The leading independent production company is set to produce 10 documentaries and features for the corporation's urban digital station 1Xtra. This represents a new business stream for UBC as, until now, the BBC's digital services have largely relied on in-house production for programming.
"The BBC is now getting serious about digital radio in a significant way," says UBC chief executive Simon Cole, whose company last Monday unveiled turnover rising 31% to 6.51m [pounds sterling] for the six months to September 30. Its pre-tax losses were cut from 1.03m [pounds sterling] to 758,000 [pounds sterling].
The 1Xtra deals come as part of a number of new BBC commissions for UBC's programming division, which experienced revenues rising 6% over the six months to 1.19m [pounds sterling]. However, the group will cease production of ...