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No substitute for talent
Celebrity presenters will not succeed in drawing listeners to a radio station if they do not also fit the brand, says Graham Bryce.
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ITV's unhappy festival
John Birt's MacTaggart reticence took the heat off the BBC and put ITV firmly in the spotlight at Edinburgh.
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Impossible wins Discovery US order
Impossible Pictures, the company formed by the team behind Walking with Dinosaurs, is making an ambitious documentary series for Discovery Channel US, which will recreate major natural disasters.
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BBC hires de Villiers
The BBC has appointed former Disney executive Etienne de Villiers to oversee its commercial dealings.
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Format focus: Your Place or Mine
In this format couples who can't agree on their ideal home can win a year's worth of mortgage payments if they can find a house they are both happy with, writes Lorna Goodyer
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Pitts to take on 3DD global sales
Distributor 3DD Entertainment has hired Boxscreen director of sales and acquisitions Jayne Pitts to take the new role of director of sales. Reporting to 3DD chief executive Dominic Saville, she is responsible for overseeing global TV and DVD programming sales. She is also charged with securing co-production deals in key ...
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C4 to screen Digital Music Awards
Channel 4 has signed up to broadcast the BT Digital Music Awards next month. The annual event, which features 18 categories ranging from best pop artists through to best use of broadband, take place in London on 18 October. C4 will screen coverage on its main channel as well as ...
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Far East Fremantle role for Spalding
Fremantle Media has promoted Simon Spalding, the chief executive of its licensing arm, to the newly created role of director of operations, Asia Pacific. He takes up the post in November and will be charged with running Fremantle's production businesses in the region, such as Grundy Television in Australia, which ...
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Barry to manage United MTV channels
MTV Networks has promoted Michael Barry to the newly created role of senior vice-president, managing director Music, MTV Networks UK & Ireland in a move that sees all nine VH1 and MTV channels managed together for the first time. Traditionally the three VH1 channels as well as The Music Factory ...
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Paramount buys gruesome clip show
Paramount Comedy has picked up a new clip show dubbed the You've Been Framedfor the Jackass generation. You've Been Maimedis a 20 x 30-minute series from Black Diamond Films - the producer/distributor's first commission - featuring stomach-churning mishaps from around the world. ...
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ITV1 in charity gig coup
ITV1 is to broadcast the Asda Tickled Pink breast cancer awareness event, featuring music acts including Westlife and Sheryl Crow, for its Saturday night schedule.
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Shoebox Zoo to be unleashed once again
BBC kids series Shoebox Zoo has won a second series commission and is being shown on the CBBC Channel before transferring to BBC1. The animation features the voices of Simon Callow, Rik Mayall and Jason Connery and is a co-production between CBBC Scotland, Los Angeles-based producer Blueprint Entertainment and Canadian ...
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Bravo takes Bullrun rally by the horns
Bravo has commissioned Giant Film and TV to produce coverage of this year's Bullrun 2005 race in the US. Dubbed the
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Discovery stocks up for Christmas
Discovery Real Time channel director Paul Welling has greenlit more than 50 hours of programming for the channel's pre-Christmas and early 2006 schedules.
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All Out assault bags six commissions for R4 and 1Xtra
Radio indie All Out Productions has won six commissions for BBC Radio 4 and 1Xtra's autumn line-ups.
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Avid refit lifts Emap post
Emap Performance has upgraded its in-house posting facilities with Avid Adrenalines and an Avid Xpress with Mojo with a view to offering posting services on a commercial basis.
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Strongroom equips for HD video work
Broadcast audio specialist Strongroom has invested£100,000 on an Avid Media Composer Adrenaline HD and an Avid Symphony Universal with 1.2 terabytes of storage supplied by reseller Altered Images in a bid to break into HD video.
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Granada trials remote editing
The world of mobile, on-location editing has come a step closer with Granada pioneering an internet-based system to log and perform basic editing on PCs with broadband internet access.
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Rainbow moves offlining to second office
Soho facility Rainbow Post Production has opened a new office in Hammersmith and splashed out£150,000 on four Final Cut Pro editing systems, each backed up with 3.2 terabytes of storage.
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Location trailers for BBC World
BBC World sent a production team to locations as diverse as New York's Times Square, an Indian paddy field and Tiananmen Square in China for its latest series of 60-second channel trailers. Directed by BBC Broadcast's Mark Chaudoir, the aim was to emphasise BBC World's on-location news reporting. Shot on ...