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EVENT FILMS BENEFIT FOR BREAST CANCER CHARITY
Event Television has been commissioned by BBC 1 to televise a major benefit concert, Wicked Women, for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. It will be staged in Hyde Park on 24 July and
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C4 celebrates end of the world
Channel 4 has lined up a themed evening to mark the date on which Nostradamus predicted the world would end, writes Alice Macandrew.The mainstay of C4's Nostradamus Night on 3 July
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MBC makes first Nat Geo UK shows
Independent Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) has clinched the first ever original commission for the National Geographic Channel UK.Launched 18 months ago, National Geographic UK has lined up MBC to produce a
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Motion signed up for R4 study of the muse
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for a 60-minute documentary charting 75 years of poetry on BBC Radio, writes John Plunkett.
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Remembrance Day goes under spotlight
Channel 4 is to mark Remembrance Sunday this year with an hour-long documentary questioning the meaning and role of the day, writes Tim Dams.Lest We Forget, produced and directed by Ian
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - ITV wins Champions League challenge
ITV scored last Wednesday (26 May), with an average 15.5 million viewers tuning into Manchester United's win in the Champions' League Final, writes Liz Shackleton.
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Talk and R5 share football rights
Talk Radio has secured live coverage of matches in the FA Cup and England internationals played at home for the next three years in its first joint rights deal with the BBC, writes John Plunkett.
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BBC forum reaches out to the indies
The BBC is holding a three-day symposium later this month for independent producers from culturally diverse backgrounds, writes Liz Shackleton.The event - BBC Programming For 2000 And Beyond - takes place
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Freelances set to endorse pay rises
Freelance members of broadcasting union Bectu are next week expected to endorse a 12 per cent rise in minimum pay rates with independent production companies.The move follows a deal struck by
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Smith leaves Carlton after just a year
Graham Smith, who has been Carlton Television head of development, entertainment for less than a year, has left as part of an ongoing reorganisation of the department.According to Carlton, his departure
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Cable operators face 50% hike in BSkyB's charges for Sky One
BSkyB has upped the amount it charges the cable industry for its Sky One channel by more than 50 per cent, writes Alice Macandrew.
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R1 outlines plans for first national opt-out
BBC Radio 1 has confirmed details of its first national opt-out service for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as predicted in Broadcast (4.12.98), writes John Plunkett.The special two-hour editions of The
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NO RAJAR COMPARISONS
Radio stations have been barred from making comparisons with last year's listening figures when the Rajar figures for the first quarter of 1999 are published next Thursday (10 June).Rajar says comparisons
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NewsSky airs doc to kick off new Prison Break
Sky One will celebrate capturing Prison Breakfrom Five by airing a 60-minute special on the show the day before it screens the first episode of season three.
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FAIRBURN TAKEN TO HEART
Chrysalis Radio has appointed Paul Fairburn, managing director of Birmingham-based Galaxy 102.2, as managing director of Heart 100.7 FM in the west Midlands. Fairburn, 40, will oversee both stations.He succeeds Phil
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EXPORTS TASK FORCE MEETS
The new government task force responsible for boosting TV exports met on Wednesday (2 June) and decided the first issues for investigation: how to improve trade statistics, marketing intelligence and support;
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LICENCE DEADLINE PASSES
No ITV companies expressed interest in early licence renewal as the Independent Television Commission's second deadline passed on Monday (31 May). Under the 1990 Broadcasting Act, ITV companies can renew their
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KENNY MACINTYRE DIES
BBC Scotland political and industrial reporter Kenny Macintyre died on Sunday (30 May) of a suspected heart attack while jogging near his home in Glasgow.Macintyre, 54, had worked for BBC Scotland
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Marsh drafted in to BBC's trouble spot
BBC Production chief executive Matthew Bannister has drafted in a former BBC Radio 1 colleague to run the troubled BBC network production department in Birmingham.Kate Marsh, 37, takes over from Chris