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    School Day (BBC1) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph

    2004-05-13T10:24:00Z

    'A good-hearted and ultimately persuasive corrective to lazy teacher-knocking.'...

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    School Day (BBC1) - Charlie Catchpole, Daily Star

    2004-05-13T10:23:00Z

    'This was thoughtful and informative programming.'...

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    Avid wins news job at Meridian

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    ITV Meridian has chosen Avid to supply the newsroom technology for its new regional tapeless production centre. The initiative is being viewed as a blueprint for all ITV regional newsrooms across the UK and, if it goes to plan, could result in a multimillion pound contract for Avid Technology, ...

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    Record results fuel Frontier expansion

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    london post house Frontier Post is investing£500,000 to expand its Wells Street facility after record turnover results, writes Rick Dacey.

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    Resolution ups editing options

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Post-production company Resolution has launched a new talent service aimed at attracting factual and documentary clients.

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    One has new flame

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Ascent Media-owned post-production facility One has bought a new Flame system based on SGI's Tezro workstation. The SGI Tezro allows data to be transferred between the various components at high rates and incorporates the bandwidth and capabilities for real-time data transfers of 2K resolution and greater.

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    Mpc staff in rejig

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    MPC has shuffled some of its senior staff. Graham Bird has become head of production for commercials and television programmes with Alex Webster as his deputy, while Amanda Libotte has been made head of operations within the same area. Martin Hobbs has been appointed as head of production for film ...

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    bda opens in Asia

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Bruce Dunlop and Associates has set up a new business division in Singapore. Philip Kitcher heads the new office, bringing over 12 years' experience of working in Asia as executive creative director of Discovery Networks Asia, Singapore and Star TV and Turner Broadcasting, both Hong Kong. James Chung joins as ...

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    BBC tech shortlist

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has cut the shortlist of potential buyers for BBC Technology down to three. Accenture, CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) and Siemens now remain as the companies that could win the right to buy the£250m a year company. The purchase brings with it a 10-year£2bn contract with the BBC ...

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    Pinewood floats

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton film studio last week raised£46m through a share flotation on the London stock exchange. Nearly 28 million shares were sold

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    Moyles reverses R1 breakfast dip

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Chris Moyles has lived up to his promise to be the 'saviour of Radio 1' by picking up an extra 680,000 listeners for the BBC station's breakfast show.

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    Tarrant leaves Capital FM on a high

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Veteran breakfast DJ Chris Tarrant left 95.8 Capital FM in good shape but has put pressure on Johnny Vaughan to perform in his place.

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    Kerrang! rocks another 50,000

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Kerrang has grown its audience by over 50,000 in the first three months of the year, taking its total to 775,000, according to Rajar.

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    Dyke and Ball to join saban pay-tv group

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Former BBC director general Greg Dyke is set to join ex-BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball, who is working for Israeli billionaire Haim Saban's German pay-TV group ProSieben SAT 1. The former adversaries, who famously clashed over Dyke's decision to broadcast the BBC's services on satellite 'in the clear', will sit ...

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    SMG boss' pay breaks£500,000 barrier

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Andrew Flanagan, chief executive of SMG, owner of Scottish TV, Grampian TV and Virgin Radio, saw his pay rise to£562,000, from last year's£476,000, according to the company's annual report. Donald Emslie, the chief executive of SMG Television, had a 35% boost in his pay and received£311,000, up from£230,000 in 2002. ...

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    Cowell to give richard dunn lecture

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Pop Idol judge Simon Cowell is to give this year's Richard Dunn memorial interview at the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Cowell, whose indie Syco (formerly Simcow) is making X Factor, a major new pop contest for ITV, will give the interview to ITV marketing director Jim Hytner. Organisers ...

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    hallmark reports subscriber growth

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    The international arm of the American Hallmark Channel, put up for sale by owners Crown Media last month, has reported a 5% growth in subscribers. The business, which includes channels in the UK, Latin America and Asia, grew its subscriber base to 57.3 million for the three months to 31 ...

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    Classic FM to spend£1m on marketing

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    Classic FM is to launch a£1m marketing campaign in a bid to continue the upward momentum of its audience figures. Owner GWR has ploughed the money into the national station following last week's Rajar report, which revealed that Classic has boosted its audience by 300,000 listeners to record a total ...

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    UK programme sales hit£520m

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    The worldwide success of shows such as Living with Michael Jackson helped lift international sales and licensing deals of British programmes to almost $1bn last year.

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    Electric Sky provides spark for Fox Italia

    2004-05-13T08:30:00Z

    UK distributor Electric Sky has secured a major deal with Fox Italia that will see it become a significant provider for the network's new channel for women, writes Michael Rosser.