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    Sky bets£400m on broadband market

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Sky's converged media initiative may have spooked the City but it's the right strategy.

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    Duo launch Synchronicity

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    The duo behind the BBC's big-budget kids show Shoebox Zoo has set up a Glasgow-based drama indie.

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    Taylor revisits Al-Qaeda for terror anniversary

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Veteran reporter Peter Taylor is to make a new series of programmes on Al-Qaeda, timed for broadcast on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon.

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    BBC2 adds variety

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    BBC2 is reviving the variety show in a daytime series to be hosted by Brian Conley. Let Me Entertain You, being made by Lion Television, sees the studio audience vote on performers, with the winners from each show going through to a grand finale. The ...

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    Anthony promoted

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Urban radio station Choice FM has made former DJ Kirk Anthony its new head of music with overall responsibility for music programming.

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    Ex-Sky man to launch broadband TV service

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Aggregator, the London-based digital TV operator co-formed by former BSkyB commercial director Martin Goswami, will launch its first TV-over-broadband service this September.

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    BT Vision loses second senior exec

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    BT's entertainment division has lost its second senior executive in four months, shortly before the launch of the company's TV proposition this autumn.

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    C4 docu-drama to tell the story of Waco siege

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Darlow Smithson will attempt to uncover what really happened during the infamous Waco siege in a big-budget feature for Channel 4 and the US Discovery Channel, its first commission since being acquired by IMG Media.

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    Love Island is no match for Big Brother

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    In last week's 'triple whammy' of reality shows in peaktime it was ITV1's Love Islandthat suffered most against BBC1's Only Fools on Horsesand Channel 4's Big Brother.

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    Wendy Martin

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Former international programming executive Wendy Martin died on Thursday 13 July at her home in Malaga, Spain.

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    Leader: The Panorama puzzle

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Putting Panoramain a 30 minute peaktime slot on BBC1 leaves questions over the corporation's current affairs output, says Conor Dignam

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    Making the impossible possible

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Profile of producer Helen Hawken who has joined Outline

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    Five corners CSI trio for digital channel

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Five will be able to screen all three series of the CSI franchise on its new acquisitions channel, Five US, after signing a deal with US producer Alliance Atlantis. The broadcaster has also secured exclusive video-on-demand rights to CSI: Crime ...

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    ITN to adopt Avid for newsrooms

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    ITN has reached an outline agreement with Avid to provide a media management system for ITN's news and programme production departments.

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    Destiny's Child join C4 talent show

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has signed up Mathew Knowles - the father of Beyoncé - and the members of Destiny's Child to feature in talent series Chancers.

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    Impact Image to provide HD shots of Red Arrows

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Air-to-air filming specialist Impact Image has been commissioned to provide the high-definition aerial photography for a BBC1 documentary on the Royal Air Force's official aerobatics display team, the Red Arrows.

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    Elstree lease put up for tender again

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    The current home of Big Brotherand Dancing on Ice, Elstree Film and Television Studios (EF&TVS), is to re-tender its lease this week.

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    Fox rebranding to boost UK production

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    20th Century Fox is set to ramp up its UK production activities. The major US studio is rebranding Scream Films, the indie it purchased in 2004, as Fox TV Studios UK.

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    Arqiva kicks off DSO

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Arqiva has started work on the first sites to be switched over to digital in an engineering project estimated to cost a total of£500m.

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    Bermuda contest

    2006-07-20T08:00:00Z

    Bermuda Shorts is launching a bi-monthly competition, Gate, to give aspiring animation directors a chance to promote their work and direct commercials.