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    Mansi to Clear Cut

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Clear Cut Pictures has appointed online editor/colourist Bruno Mansi to head the company's online team. Mansi joins Clear Cut from Hillside Studios where he was senior editor for four years. His recent credits include 90-minute doc The Spy Who Stole my Lifefor Five and C4's ...

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    Ten Alps sets up Midlands factual arm

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Indie Ten Alps has launched a new company in the East Midlands, after taking over Derbyshire-based indie Rock Hammer and winning a year-long commission from the BBC.

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    Byford defends BBC's 'hateful' Katrina report

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    BBC deputy director general Mark Byford has defended the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina, following allegations that Tony Blair described it as 'full of hatred of America and gloating'.

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    Movie series on Five

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Five has commissioned a 6 x 60-minute series listing the 40 greatest movies by genre. Each programme will cover a different genre and films will be voted for through Five's website and by readers of Times Online. The programme, produced by indie Diverse, was commissioned by Five controller of pop ...

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    C4 airs Kiss Awards

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has picked up the rights to the first ever Kiss Awards on 5 November, filmed by indie Done and Dusted. The Kiss awards from Emap Radio, which also publishes Broadcast, will showcase the best in urban and dance music over the past 12 months. ...

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    Radio 1 sexes it up

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 1 has teamed up with the Open University (OU) for the first time for a series of live broadcasts of phone-in show The Sunday Surgery, called The Sex Tour. The show will broadcast from Wrexham, Glasgow, Sunderland and Derry on ...

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    Oliver at news helm

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    ITV News associate editor Craig Oliver has been promoted to the newly created role of head of network programmes. The new brief, which is effective immediately, will see Oliver continue to oversee editorial, production and management issues for ITV1 News but he will now take on additional responsibility for interactive ...

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    True Vision Emmy

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    True Vision Productions snared its sixth Emmy at the 26th Annual News and Documentary Awards ceremony in New York this week. The London-based indie's documentary Reporters at War, which aired on Discovery, triumphed in the historical programming category. International video agency AP Television News (APTN) celebrated ...

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    Sky Three to launch on Freeview

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    BSkyB is launching Sky Three, a new Freeview channel that will showcase content from Sky One.

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    Kilgarriff calls time on Turner stint

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Richard Kilgarriff is leaving his job as senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Europe at the end of the month. Kilgarriff has been with Turner in various roles for four years, most recently responsible for all the company's UK entertainment channels including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and Turner Classic ...

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    FilmFlex names Sky veteran Keyte as MD

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Movie-on-demand service FilmFlex has appointed former BSkyB executive Andrew Keyte as its first managing director. Keyte, who was the general manager of Sky's 11 movie channels until 1999, has been brought on board to spearhead the region-by-region roll-out of the group's VoD service on NTL and Telewest. He begins on ...

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    Pye leaves SPTI for non-exec roles

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Chris Pye, vice-president of worldwide formats at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), has quit. He will leave at the end of the year and is unlikely to be replaced. He told Broadcast he had decided to take up a series of non-executive director roles in the independent sector and hopes ...

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    Target: distribution profits£880,000

    2005-09-22T08:30:00Z

    Following last week's Distributors Survey ( Broadcast, 16.9.05), Target has asked us to make clear that the profit and loss figures published in the table did not relate to its distribution business. Target's programme distribution business made a profit of£880,000 on a turnover of£6m last year. We ...

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    Audio SOS: emergency treatment

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    The 'fix it in post' mentality may work for video, but sound is hard to salvage in the edit. From background noise to inaudible productions shot on cheap cameras, the number of casualties in audio post's emergency rooms is on the up. Andy Stout asked four audio specialists about aurally ...

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    Radio indies must be heard

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    With all the focus on indies' TV quotas, the plight of the independent radio sector can be overlooked. Tim Blackmore calls for the Charter Review to open up the BBC's resources.

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    Visions of ITV in the year 2016

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    If current trends continue, what does the future hold for ITV? Three correspondents, Stuart Prebble, Andrew Billen and Steve Hewlett, imagine what different aspects of the network might look like a decade from now.

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    Dying to be on the telly

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    With a host of shows set to feature real deaths on TV, the question of what is appropriate is once again raised. In the absence of explicit rules, broadcasters have to rely on their own judgement.

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    Forecasting senility at 50

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    While ITV is perfectly capable of turning itself around, a lack of creative tension is at the heart of its demise.

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    Serious about Sky docs

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    Jacquie Lawrence has made an apparently seamless transition from radical C4 film-maker to driver of Sky One's move upmarket with authored documentaries.

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    The blame game

    2005-09-22T08:00:00Z

    Executives within ITV have been on a collision course for months and this week we are seeing the fall-out.