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    TV management - Television's brain drain

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    With indies offering more creative opportunities, higher salaries and greater job security, top executive jobs with broadcasters are no longer the glittering prizes they once were. james curtis reports on TV's growing dearth of management talent.

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    Interview - No mouse in sight

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Following Disney's purchase of Fox Kids Europe, regional president David Hulbert is going to be putting serious pressure on rivals Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and potentially the BBC.

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - Over 65s failed by multichannel

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Multichannel broadcasters are wasting an opportunity by not targeting older viewers as they are easily the heaviest consumers of television. Adrian Edwards Reports.

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    ITV1 drops below 20% mark in 2006

    2007-01-08T12:15:00Z

    Consolidated figures have confirmed that ITV1, the UK's most popular commercial broadcaster, saw its annual audience share drop below the 20% for the first time in 2006.

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    TX - Too free or not too free

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    During the filming of Slave Nation cameraman Paul Englefield had his passport removed in Switzerland and found himself surrounded by cake-eating snowmen in Derby - all in the name of freedom.Englefield

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    ITV floors BBC 1 in Sunday night fight for supremacy

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    One last gasp for Wimbledon, the final (BBC 1, Monday 11.35) with 4.43 million, before ITV and Channel 4 were once more serving aces with a Coronation Street special and Big

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    AND FINALLY

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Sam Zniber, Galaxy 102 programme director, recalls applying for a McJob in ParisWhat's the cruellest thing you've ever done?Listening to radio at home 24 hours per day, pretty cruel for my

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    Off the Record - Stuck in Surrey

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Forget the biscuits. Greg Dyke's cost-cutting measures are starting to be felt at the heart of the BBC: within newsgathering. After granting an interview to the BBC 1 One O'Clock News

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    Off the Record - Geldof the softie

    2001-08-03T00:00:00Z

    Whoever thought Sir Bob Geldof had turned into an arrogant bastard since he became a multimillionaire by selling Planet 24 and then launching another outfit, 10 Alps, is entirely wrong. OTR

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    Parkhill wins third Soho Shorts Festival

    2001-08-03T11:57:00Z

    Director of ground-breaking look at disability wins Artsworld film award at Rushes's annual short film festival

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    Lux departure raises indie concerns

    2001-08-03T11:57:00Z

    Major worry over ideas getting sidelined as controller of entertainment commissioning finally takes her leave

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    ETV plans online alternative to local TV

    2001-08-03T13:15:00Z

    Web-based Manx.TV set to launch within next two months combining local programming with syndicated online shows

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    BBC coy on Saturday night schedules

    2001-08-03T13:27:00Z

    Corporation remains tight-lipped on plans to air heavily female-skewed schedule against ITV's The Premiership

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    First Thomas Murphy commission to emulate Saville's Fix It

    2001-08-03T15:08:00Z

    Format creator Thomas Murphy Entertainment has won its first commission for television, with an order for a BBC 1 celebrity-led charity show in the style of former BBC 1 stalwart Jim'll

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    Look4Love loses licence

    2007-01-08T13:15:00Z

    Sex chat channel Look4Love has had its licence revoked by Ofcom after it failed comply with a series of directions from the regulator or pay a£175,000 fine.

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    Storyteller and Mercury sign ITV daytime pet deal

    2001-08-03T15:08:00Z

    Australian wildlife independent Storyteller Productions and fledgling London-based producer/distributor Mercury Media this week signed their first sales deal with ITV for the daytime series Animal Allies.The 13 x 30-minute series

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    Granada bags Cirque du Soleil distribution deal

    2001-08-03T15:08:00Z

    Granada International has struck a three-year distribution deal with Montreal-based circus group Cirque du Soleil, writes Steve AstonThe deal gives Granada worldwide television exploration rights outside North America and French-speaking territories.

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    New fashion series for BBC

    2001-08-03T15:08:00Z

    The BBC is to venture back into fashion television with a new series featuring 'real people and their wardrobes', three years after flagship strand The Clothes Show was axed, writes Leigh Holmwood

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    TVF International lands Diana rights

    2001-08-03T15:08:00Z

    Documentary distribution company TVF International has secured the international rights to Brook Lapping's 4 x 60-minute ITV series Diana - Story of a Princess. The series tells the life story of

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    Industry condemns Jowell's Brass Eye knee-jerk

    2001-08-03T15:59:00Z

    Media secretary was 'naive' in her handling of the matter and her calling for stronger ITC powers