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WAR ZONE: MID-MORNING - Battle of the divas
Three chat show hosts are fighting it out for supremacy on mid-morning TV. Peter Fiddick figures out who's winning.
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NEW MEDIA - The real life show
As webcams have proliferated, internet broadcasting has moved on from its early days of amateur porn; now almost anyone can be a broadcaster. But how relevant is this to conventional broadcasters, asks Ed Shelton.
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INTERVIEW - Hilary fits the bill
Jane Root will be a tough act to follow as head of the BBC's independent commissioning group. Except for a few dissenting voices, most indies believe that Bill Hilary has got what it takes to move the group onwards.
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OFF THE RECORD - Submit! Submit!
Off The Record is as excited as the next man about top economist Gavyn Davies' review of the licence fee (and that next man is Gavyn Davies).So it was with heavy
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OFF THE RECORD - Wonderful schedule
Say what you like about the new ITV schedule, but you can't claim David Liddiment isn't prepared to innovate. Why, only this week the Network Centre decided to run the last
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OFF THE RECORD - X-rated fm
Some people will do anything to get on the radio. When a 19-year-old student offered to turn up starkers at London's Xfm in order to win a pair of tickets to
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OFF THE RECORD - And the winner is ... me!
Interesting times are guaranteed at the prestigious Television Sports Awards at the end of this month. OTR is particularly looking forward to the regional sports presenter/commentator award. Among the nominees are
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NewsBig Brother ends with 5.3m
The 10pm final of Big Brotheron Friday managed a moderate audience of 5.3m viewers (29%), 2.2m down on last year's final show. [ALL]
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OFF THE RECORD - Logo larks
The decorators have been out in force at the Channel 4 building in Horseferry Road. As regular viewers of the channel will know, it recently dumped its 'four circles' logo in
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OFF THE RECORD - Just not cricket
You have to feel sorry for Talk Radio head honcho Kelvin MacKenzie - and OTR never thought it would say that. Desperate to broadcast more sport and take on BBC Radio
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OFF THE RECORD - Con or Connery?
Those purveyors of fine classical music at Classic FM took their lives in their hands when they refused a request from none other than James Bond himself. Or so it seemed.
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OFF THE RECORD - =. - DUTY LOG
This week's round-up of incoming calls is from LWT. Readers can now call our own duty office with their comments on ...Caller on the Jerry Springer Show: 'You should not have
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BBC and ITN count cost of covering Kosovo war
The BBC and ITN could be forced to scale down their in-house coverage of major news stories later this year because of the enormous expense of covering the war in Kosovo.Industry
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Mel and Sue sign for Granada's ITV comedy quiz show
The stars of Channel 4's Late Lunch, Mel Giedroye and Sue Perkins, have been signed by Granada Television to host a new comedy quiz for ITV, writes Nicola Methven.The Casting Couch,
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Yentob emerging as top BBC candidate
BBC Broadcast director of television Alan Yentob is emerging as the leading internal candidate to succeed Sir John Birt as director general and is believed to have the support of Media
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Worldwide sale to C4 blocked
The BBC Corporate Centre has blocked the sale of UK Horizons series Supernatural Science to Channel 4 in a move that is understood to have cost BBC Worldwide more than£200,000.Worldwide
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NICKELODEON DEAL BRINGS COUNTRY MOUSE TO KIDS TV
Nickelodeon UK has concluded a deal with Cinar Europe that gives it the rights to a slate of new kids' programming, including a 26 x 30-minute run of pre-school animated series
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SHOOTING STARTS ON BBC 2'S IN A LAND OF PLENTY
TalkBack/Sterling Pictures have gone into production with 10 x 50-minute BBC 2 drama In a Land of Plenty. The adaptation of the novel by Tim Pears stars Robert Pugh, Helen McCrory
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NewsFreesat appoints managing director
The launch director behind Freeview, Emma Scott, has been given the managing director job at Freesat, BBC and ITV's planned free-to-view satellite service. [ALL]
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DISNEY SNAPS UP CANADA'S INCREDIBLE STORY STUDIO
Walt Disney International has picked up the first 26 episodes of Canadian kids' TV series Incredible Story Studio, with options on any additional episodes, for its Disney Channels in the UK,