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    MIDAS FIRST FOR CTV

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    CTV Outside Broadcast is the first to buy a broadcast console from Worcestershire-based Midas. The Broadcast 2000 console was part of a re-fit of one of their three OB trucks which

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    ITV's reversal of fortune

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    There is only one story in town at the moment and I don't mean the imminent lynching of the creative team behind the Big Brother BT Cellnet sponsorship credits. It is

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    Listen to the public, not critics

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    While press attention harks back to the days of yore when British television was truly funny, ITV's stance on nurturing the much-maligned sitcom seems to be in stark contrast to that

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    TRADE TALK - Changing tack

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Carole Peters, whose credits include Changing Rooms and Time Team, is to lead September Films' new push in serious documentary making.

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    IN MY VIEW - Steve Barnett

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    On why the public's indifference to digital television has been seriously underestimated.

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    ON THE BOX - Jazzing up late night

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    For BBC Scotland head of comedy and entertainment Mike Bolland, Jazz is music to the ears, but Big Brother numbs the brain.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Digital difficulties

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Besides confusion and apathy among the potential consumers of digital television there are a number of technical complexities that have made the government's proposed analogue switch-off seem an elusive goal.

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    BUYING A DIGITAL TV - Are you being served?

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The predicted date for analogue switch-off in the UK is creeping up. Broadcast goes undercover in London to gauge whether sales staff in high street stores on the front line of the digital revolution are armed with enough information to interpret jargon f

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    INTERVIEW - Comedy not errors

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Over the past few years TV critics have viewed ITV's sitcom output the way a pack of hyenas views a three-legged zebra. From the outside, the woman brought in to make

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    REGIONAL TV - A mouthpiece for local community

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Since its purchase by Capital Radio last year, Border TV has affirmed its position as a regional broadcaster in tune with its local audience, but is ready to secure its future as part of Granada's growing empire. Jane Marlow reports.

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    TX - The suburban bugbear

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    You don't have to go to the plains of Africa or the jungles of South America to make natural history programmes. All animal life is right here all around us. At

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    Soap Awards and reality TV wash away elections

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    BBC 1 might have aspired to attract between 6 and 7 million with David Dimbleby's Challenge the Leader - Question Time Special at 21.00 on Wednesday, but it managed to shed

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    OFF THE RECORD - Even Sooty can't escape DIY craze

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    The Changing Rooms team clearly have time on their hands over the summer. So stuck are they for inspiration they are turning their calloused hands to revamping Sooty's house. The first

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    OFF THE RECORD - The killing fields

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Anyone who's ever wanted to kill his or her executive producer should take note. Exec Jack Smith was filming BBC/Discovery co-production Hidden History of Egypt in Cairo earlier this year, dressed

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    OFF THE RECORD - A dim bulb among the X-mas lights

    2001-06-22T00:00:00Z

    Lookalikes. The industry has long noted the similarity between Carlton's Steve Hewlett and actor Robbie Coltrane. Both play characters that are larger than life, but one while one was guaranteed huge

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    Hear'Say get own TV show

    2001-06-22T13:05:00Z

    LWT commissioned to produce Hear'Say It's Saturday which will air on ITV later this year

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    Jobs go as Prebble announces new ITV management

    2001-06-22T13:09:00Z

    ITV begins cost-cutting as chief executive names new integrated management team

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    And they're off

    2001-06-22T16:55:00Z

    'New value for all in racing' claims Go Racing chief executive Christopher Stoddart after BHB agreement for pre-race data secures£387m media rights deal

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    Media shares dive as report predicts ITV heading for worse recession on record

    2001-06-25T11:15:00Z

    Carlton and Granada fall as new survey says slump in ad spend by big US multinationals is leading to deeper and more protracted crisis than previously expected

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    BSkyB to close [.tv]

    2001-06-25T12:57:00Z

    Niche digital channels face uncertain future after BSkyB confirms it is to axe its 100 per cent owned technology channel three years after re-launch