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Dando's killer sentenced to life
The man accused of murdering television presenter Jill Dando was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of the crime at London's High Court on Monday (2 July), writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Indie fills new senior post
Indie Somethin' Else has created a new post of head of TV and has appointed freelance producer Bruce Hepton to fill it, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NewsITV makes Mowlam doc
ITV Productions is making a C4 drama based on the life of the former Northern Ireland secretary.
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BBC DENIES NEWS MOVE
BBC director of television Mark Thompson has strongly rebuffed suggestions that current affairs flagship show Panorama is to be shunted to BBC 2. Responding to the leak of a dummy schedule
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C4 BAGS BIMA AWARDS
Channel 4 education arm 4Learning has scooped two British Interactive Media Association (BIMA) accolades just two weeks after bagging seven RTS Education Awards. C4's website, Sex, which offers frank advice to
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WALES SEEKS LICENCES
The Radio Authority has received three applications for a new local analogue licence for Pembrokeshire in Wales. Proposals have been submitted from Haven FM, More 102 and Real Radio. The authority
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WORLDS END'S£1M DEAL
Indie Worlds End Productions has secured a£1m deal with drinks company Diageo to produce programming for a new entertainment channel in bars and pubs. The project, named Translucis, will deliver
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Archives given lottery payout
Wildscreen, British Pathe and the British Film Institute (BFI) have each won huge lottery hand-outs to convert their analogue archives into next generation online content.The awards, part of the£50m National
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Carlton boss slams fees
Carlton deputy chief executive Nigel Walmsley has joined the chorus of ITV voices calling for more government support for On Digital, reiterating his company's plea for ITV licence fees to be scrapped, writes Steve Aston.
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Top commercial radio stations named
Liverpool-based Radio City 96.7 won the commercial radio station of the year award at the Commercial Radio Awards, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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FOREVER BROADCASTING BUYS PEAK 107FM
Newcastle-upon-Tyne-based radio group Forever Broadcasting has bought Grand Central Broadcasting, which owns and operates Chesterfield's analogue radio station Peak 107 FM, for£4.82m. It is the fifth station that Forever Broadcasting
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NTL REDUCES DEBT MOUNTAIN WITH£100M DEAL
Cable giant NTL has reduced some of its£10bn debt through a£100m investment deal with GE Capital Telecom. NTL chief financial officer John Gregg said the deal, together with another
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SCREENSHOP APPOINTS NEW BOSS
Screenshop, the former Flextech channel now owned and managed by auction outfit bid-up.tv, has named Lee White as its new head, replacing S'an Ellis-Thomas, who is being promoted within Flextech owner
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CBBC WEB SITE FOCUSES ON NEW KIDS' SERIES
The BBC children's department CBBC has established a site on BBC Online giving information on the tender process for the new series to succeed the Teletubbies and the Tweenies, as revealed
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TIVO LINKS UP WITH UKTV FOR HIGHLIGHTS
Personal video recorder manufacturer Tivo has struck a channel highlights deal with BBC and Flextech joint-venture broadcaster UKTV. The deal represents the fourth broadcaster to run a Tivo highlights channel with
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GULLANE BUYS RIGHTS TO GUINNESS RECORDS
Gullane Entertainment - owner of Sooty, Thomas the Tank Engine and Captain Pugwash - has bought the rights to Guinness World Records (GWR) for£45.5m. Gullane chairman Charles Falzon said he
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WALES THIS WEEK TAKES ON NEW PRODUCER
HTV has recruited freelance producer John Mair as series producer for its Wales this Week show. Mair, who joins the programme in the autumn, will report to HTV Wales' head of
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NewsOfcom's C4 review published in March
Ofcom is to publish the results of the review it has ordered into Channel 4's funding by the end of March.
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R3 PLANS FILM AND THEATRE MUSIC SERIES
BBC Radio 3 controller Roger Wright has commissioned new weekly programme Stage & Screen. The 44 x 60-minute series will broadcast between 16.00 and 17.00 from 23 July and will play
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Gimme Gimme moves to BBC 1
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey is planing to shore up the channel's failing comedy output by poaching yet another series from BBC 2 - controversial sitcom Gimme Gimme Gimme.Heggessey has greenlit