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UK CREATIVES TO STAR IN BANFF WORKSHOPS
A number of UK television industry figures are to feature in creative workshops at the Banff Television Festival in Canada next month. Andrew Davies, the adapter of Middlemarch, House of Cards,
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PLAYERS LINE UP TO BUY DT'S CABLE TV NETWORK
Microsoft Corp and Bertelsmann are considering the acquisition of Deutsche Telekom's (DT) cable TV network along with Deutsche Bank, according to a report in German current affairs magazine Der Spiegel. Bertelsmann
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PEOPLE + ARTS BUSTLES INTO MADRID
BBC Worldwide/Discovery Networks joint-venture channel People + Arts has launched on Spain's Madritel cable system. People + Arts, which first launched in Latin America in October 1997, is now available in
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STREAM BAGS TV RIGHTS TO QUARTET OF TOP SERIE A TEAMS
Telecom Italia's digital TV operator, Stream, has won the rights to televise the matches of four Italian Serie A football teams: Lazio, Parma, Fiorentina and Roma. Stream is to pay L240
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WORLDWIDE HAILS SUCCESS OF CECILIA & BRYN CONCERT
BBC Worldwide Music has sold the Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne gala concert to ABC in Australia, Danmarks radio in Denmark, SVT in Sweden, FR2 in France, NRK in Norway and
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Bristol fashion
Late Show veteran Mike Poole tells Jason Deans why he decided to quit BBC arts for features amid rumours of a radical overhaul of the genre.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - The end of the affair?
Is current affairs a genre in crisis? Last week's RTS judges certainly thought so, and many are sceptical that ITV's Tonight with Trevor McDonald (above) provides the solution. Alice Macandrew reports.
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OPINION - Will Tony Ball kick ass for Sky?
Rupert Murdoch likes to give the top jobs in his global television business to either Americans or Antipodians. According to the News Corp mindset these New Worlders possess the go-getting commercial
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MULTI-CULTURAL TV - Breaking out of the ghetto
Last year Coronation Street, a soap about life in a working-class community in Manchester, got its first Asian family.To some, this is a measure of the television industry's ability to keep
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NewsC4 Radio plans new approach to ads
Channel 4 Radio plans to move away from the traditional 30-second advertising spot to find 'innovative' advertising models to monetise its commercial radio operation.
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BFI TRACKING STUDY - Working daze
In a survey of production staff, the BFI's Richard Paterson and Janet Willis examine trends in TV employment.
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INTERVIEW - No ordinary Joe
As LWT's new head of documentaries, Joe Houlihan rode to TV fame on the back of hit docu-soap Airline. Now the Arsenal-supporting, ex-print journalist has high ambitions to take the genre upmarket and expand overseas.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Goal difference
Last year's football World Cup helped indies notch up 551 entries in the weekly Top 40 charts. But does this apparent success mask a downturn in the sector's fortunes?
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OFF THE RECORD - Excuses, excuses
It is with a heavy heart that Off The Record reports the non-appearance of BBC Radio 4 chief James Boyle at a Radio Academy do last week. Trailed as an 'end
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OFF THE RECORD - Security risk
OTR is proud to reveal the latest celebrity to add their name to the OK! hall of fame - none other than leisure gameshow ubermeister Peter Bazalgette. Baz unwittingly appeared in
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OFF THE RECORD - Skin deep
OTR is worried some readers may have missed the Neutrogena Beauty Journalism awards this month. It included the first ever Broadcast Beauty Journalism award, picked up by BBC 2's Looking Good.
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OFF THE RECORD - Knocked out
Channel 5's retrotastic plans to bring back It's A Knockout (above, right) hit an unexpected hitch when mean-spirited execs at the BBC suggested it still owned the copyright to the name
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OFF THE RECORD - Slipping through the net
Never let it be said those lovely people at Channel 4 don't listen to their indies. Next month, for instance, four of its top execs are going online to take questions
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OFF THE RECORD - Desert TV
Why, OTR wondered, did the usually shy and retiring Michael Green venture into the limelight on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs this week? Could it be to share with the
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OFF THE RECORD - Up the Arse
Listeners who tuned into BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of Arsenal's match against Leeds last week could be forgiven for thinking they were listening to a radio version of OTR's fave