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DIGITAL: HOW IS IT FOR YOU?
In the first of a new series, On Digital's Stephen Grabiner believes the coming of digital will lead to a concentration of the market with no more than 20 pay channels lasting the pace.
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Xmas leaves Eric and Ernie behind
If you're lucky, Christmas starts at the beginning of December and works itself up to a last-minute frenzy with a mad dash around the shops on Christmas Eve when the fighting
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1999 - THE YEAR AHEAD - The big noises of ninety-nine
What lies in store for the UK broadcast sector in 1999? As the BBC readies itself for life post-Birt, ITV pins its hopes on a new schedule and Channel 4 goes on the offensive, Broadcast weighs up the challenges facing the industry in the year ahead.
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1999 - THE YEAR AHEAD - Virtual insanity
John Dugdale offers a satirical view of the pre-millennial madness that will shake the broadcasting establishment. Brace yourself for X-Rated Baz, the relaunch of R1 as a rolling news service and Carlton as Trimdon Working Men's Club.
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NewsBBC1 comedy drama for Coogan
BBC1 has signed Steve Coogan to star as a family man with a gambling addiction in the new “bittersweet” comedy, Sunshine.
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PROFILE - Rebel fights for C4 cause
From the unlikely beginnings of a Trotskyite children's union, Jim Gray has risen to become ITN's head of Channel 4 News. In the week of the show's relaunch, what are his plans for its future?
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REWINDProducers: Children’s BBC/British PatheBroadcaster: BBC 1 and BBC 2Start: 17.30, 5 JanuaryLength: 100 x 90-secondsCommissioned by Peter SalmonProducer/director: Eric RowanRarely has so much painstaking work gone into a series of such
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NewsKateModern to cross with LonelyGirl15
Bebo's online drama KateModern is to crossover with the US format that inspired it, LonelyGirl15, over the next two weeks.
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RA FREEZES APPLICATION AND LICENCE FEES FOR 1999
The Radio Authority has frozen its application and licence fees for the forthcoming year. Licence fees for Independent Local Radio and Independent National Radio have not been increased since the authority
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TTTV UNVEILS 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS
Tyne Tees Television, which celebrates its 40th anniversary on Friday (15 January), will air a schedule of commemorative programming this week.The broadcaster, which launched in the north-east on 15 January 1959,
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POWELL GETS VOTE FOR HEAD OF POLITICS AT HTV WALES
HTV Wales has promoted Nick Powell, producer of political programme Welsh Agenda, to the newly created post of head of politics. The appointment is a preparation for HTV's coverage of the
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CNN International (CNNI) has become the latest 24-hour news channel to unveil a new on-screen look
CNN International (CNNI) has become the latest 24-hour news channel to unveil a new on-screen look. The revamp includes an updated on-screen 'bug' and 14 time-lapse idents featuring the CNN logo
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Hocking takes the Blue Peter helm
Steve Hocking, a development executive in BBC Production's children's programmes, has been named as the new editor of flagship BBC kids' show Blue Peter.Hocking, 37, is set to assume his new
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ITC and ITV network reject calls for 'super-regulator'
The Independent Television Commission has branded calls for a single 'super-regulator' for TV and telecoms as 'fanciful', writes John Plunkett.The commission, in its response to the Government's green paper on convergence
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C4 News and Newsnight revamps pull in viewers
Last week's revamps for Channel 4 News and Newsnight appear to have paid off, according to the unofficial overnight ratings, writes Alice Macandrew.Both programmes notched up an average increase in viewers
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Booth-Clibborn departs Bazal
The founding producer of Changing Rooms, Ann Booth-Clibborn, has left to join Flashback Television, writes Claire Handley.At Flashback Booth-Clibborn becomes the new series producer on 3 x 60-minute show Lost Gardens
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Channel 4 offers an online chat for indies
Independent production companies will be able to chat online to commissioning editors at Channel 4 as part of a new internet access scheme being rolled out from Horseferry Road, writes Tim
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PRODUCER KILLED IN AFRICA
A video journalist working for television news agency Associated Press Television News (APTN) has been shot dead covering the civil war in Sierra Leone. Myles Tierney, a Kenya-based producer who joined
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DERHAM TO PRESENT NEWS
ITN's media and arts correspondent, Katie Derham, is to become the main newscaster on its Saturday evening news programmes on ITV from this month.Derham, 28, will continue in her correspondent's role