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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - BBC Prime goes on air beyond Europe
BBC Worldwide pay-TV entertainment channel BBC Prime is to expand beyond Europe for the first time, with a digital satellite TV (DST) distribution deal covering sub-Saharan Africa.BBC Prime launched across the
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - FRANCE 3 AND TF1 WARNED FOR 'FAKING' DOC SCENES
French public service broadcaster France 3 and commercial rival TF1 have been reprimanded by the country's television watchdog, the Conseil Superieur de l'Audiovisuel (CSA), for faking elements of recent documentaries. CSA
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - HIT BUYS INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS TO LIVING BRITAIN
UK producer/distributor Hit Entertainment has snapped up the international rights to Living Britain (left) outside the UK and US, which have gone to BBC Worldwide.Hit has also acquired the UK video
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - TORRANCE EXITS BBC FOR DRAMA ROLE AT GRANADA MEDIA
Granada Media International (GMI), the distribution arm of Granada Media, has poached Caroline Torrance from the BBC to manage the company's drama portfolio. Torrance, who will join Granada on 8 April,
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - SOUTH PACIFIC BOLSTERS DRAMA AND FILM TEAM
South Pacific Pictures, the New Zealand-based producer one-third-owned by UK outfit Chrysalis Visual Entertainment, has made four appointments in a move to step up its TV drama and feature film activities.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - FIGHT OVER SPANISH DIGITAL TELEVISION ROLLS ON
No end appears to be in sight in the Spanish digital television battle, after Via Digital president Pedro Perez announced that he sees two platforms continuing following the breakdown of merger
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - WORLDWIDE AND EINSTEIN TO PRODUCE TOTP FOR ITALY
BBC Worldwide has signed a deal to develop the Top of the Pops (right) format for the Italian market with local producer Einstein Multimedia.TOTP producer Chris Cowey will be working with
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS - IGER PROMOTED TO ABC GROUP CHAIRMAN
ABC president Robert Iger has been promoted to ABC group chairman and given responsibility for the overseas operations of the US network's parent company, Disney. Iger will be responsible for the
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TRADE TALK - Dele's vision
Dele Oniya wants to take multicultural programming to the mainstream. Now at Carlton, he feels he is in the right place to do it. Lucy Rouse reports.
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TRADE TALK - On the box
Anglia Television's controller of factual Andrea Cornes on Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age and Queer as Folk.
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TRADE TALK - Jonathan Davis
The moving of ITV's main news bulletin next week has been heralded in the press as the declaration of a ratings war with the BBC. The failure of BBC spokesmen to
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Is TV sex a big turn-off?
Sex on TV attracts virulent press condemnation but few complaints from viewers, and, perhaps most surprising of all, small audiences. Tim Dams asks if sex has lost its pulling power.
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OPINION - A seminal moment in UK broadcasting
Seminal moments in British broadcasting occur far less often than network controllers and programme publicists would have us believe. But, make no mistake, 8 March 1999 is a day destined for
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OPINION - Off message
It takes two to tango, and, so it seems, at least two to broadcast a jazz music station.Jazz FM has become the latest radio station catering to minority tastes to realise
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CURRENT AFFAIRS - Time up for current affairs?
With TV current affairs in the doldrums, much hangs on the launch of new ITV contender Tonight in the old News at Ten slot. If the programme fails to find an audience, it may leave the genre fatally weakened. John Plunkett reports.
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ITV SPECIAL - And finally
As the last bong sounds for News at Ten, ITV director of programmes David Liddiment talks about the launch of his new peaktime schedule, freed up by the axing of the long-running bulletin.
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INTERVIEW - Testing times ahead
Jane Root sees BBC 2 as a 'laboratory' for British TV. But three months into her job as controller of BBC 2, the controversy over the axing of One Man and his Dog shows she has her work cut out refocusing the channel
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ADVERTISER-FUNDED PROGRAMMING - Commercial break
Programme producers and advertisers are beginning to make tentative advances towards each other. Will it be a marriage made in heaven or is a messy divorce just around the corner? Lucy Rouse investigates.
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OFF THE RECORD - Blast from the past
Who is this fresh-faced young thing (below) posing for an ad which Off The Record unearthed for September Films' British Sex on Sky One? Why, it's none other than gorgeous Kelly