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    Resources staff vote for strike

    2000-11-23T14:24:00Z

    London-based BECTU members vote 74% in favour

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    Rushes promotes within management team

    2000-11-23T14:37:00Z

    Rushes managing director Mark Hewitt has promoted three of his management team.General manager Joce Capper has become facilities director after five years with the company. Chief engineer Tim Wharton, who joined

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    Western reports biased, says Anan

    2000-11-23T14:53:00Z

    UN secretary general says coverage of events in Africa makes the continent look like 'one continual disaster'

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    C4 commissions Extreme Games special

    2000-11-23T14:57:00Z

    Extreme International has struck its first deal with Channel 4 to produce a one-off special covering the new World Extreme Games.The 60-minute special will be presented by BBC Robot Wars

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    Company wins new ITV slate

    2000-11-23T14:57:00Z

    ITV commissions two-part drama as returning series' look likely

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    Hurll to make Comedy Awards for ITV

    2000-11-23T15:15:00Z

    Michael Hurll Television is to produce a programme off the back of The British Comedy Awards 2000 for Sky One.The Comedy Awards Big Bash will go behind the scenes of

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    Coca-Cola Polar Bear Twins go interactive in US and UK

    2000-11-23T15:40:00Z

    Coca-Cola has produced an interactive version of the popular 'Polar Bear Twins' Christmas holiday advert with the help of US interactive specialist RespondTV writes David Wood.Initially the advert will

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    Wireless Group plans offshore Radio 2 rival

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The Wireless Group (TWG) is poised to secure a major stake in its second national radio station by joining Delta 171 to set up an offshore radio station to rival BBC Radio 2 running outside UK radio regulations, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    UK distribution faces major upheaval as ITV consolidates

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The UK distribution industry is facing the prospect of scores of job cuts as the ITV companies consolidate, with more than 30 jobs expected to be axed in the Granada Media

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    Tom and Jerry return after 30-year absence

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Cartoon Network is to premiere the first new Tom and Jerry cartoon for more than 30 years, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Sky struck secret On Digital share deal

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB negotiated a deal to buy rights to shares in a floated On Digital as compensation for pulling out of the British Digital Broadcasting consortium in 1997, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Kirch may fight EC

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    German media group Kirch is examining whether it can challenge rules which force it to sell the rights it holds to the football World Cup 2002 to a BBC/ITV coalition, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Minorities 'betrayed' by broadcast sector

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The broadcast industry employs more than 115,000 people, according to the first ever census of the TV, radio and new media industries - far more than the government's previous estimate of

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    Granada plans merged kids unit

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media is in discussions with Carlton about pooling together their children's production departments to create a streamlined ITV kids outfit, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Nation reps to sit on BBC genre boards

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Senior editorial executives from each of the nations will sit on the newly created BBC genre commissioning boards, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Pitt in talks to end Real Life connections

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Real Life Productions' director of programmes Ruth Pitt is negotiating ways to leave the company she founded in 1988 as part of a legal process expected to be finalised next spring, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Film outfit buys quarter stake in Gub Neal indie

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Box TV, the drama indie set up by former Channel 4 head of drama Gub Neal, has received a 'several million pound' investment from an international film company on the prowl

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    Ideal World hires three staff for E.world interactive arm

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Ideal World has hired three new staff for its new media operation, five months after receiving a£1.5m investment from the Royal Bank of Scotland for its E.world interactive arm, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Crimewatch Daily set to air

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    High-profile crime series Crimewatch is being spun off into a new daily format as a mainstay of BBC1's daytime schedule, writes Colin Robertson.

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    BBC VICE-CHAIR SHORTLIST

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Media secretary Chris Smith is considering a shortlist of recommended names for the BBC vice chairmanship and is expected to make an announcement in mid-December. MPs and peers are speculating that