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NewsITV chair gives backing to Allen
New ITV chairman Sir Peter Burt has given his backing to Charles Allen, the merged plc's under-threat chief executive.
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NewsBo' Selecta! star leads C4's spring season
Channel 4 has handed Bo' Selecta! star Avid Merrion a central role in its spring schedule with a new chat show.
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NewsFive viewers to go home with Geri
Five has lined up former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell as the next subject of its At Home with? reality strand.
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NewsBBC hints at Kilroy return
Robert Kilroy-Silk was forced out of his lucrative daily talkshow for branding Arabs 'suicide bombers, limb-amputators [and] women repressors', but the BBC said this week it would be happy to let him front another show for the corporation.
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NewsBurns warning on BBC governors
Lord Burns, who is leading the government's review of the BBC's Royal Charter, this week gave the clearest indication yet that the BBC governors in their present form are unlikely to survive.
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NewsElstein finds few friends
David Elstein unveiled his Tory-commissioned report into the future of the BBC this week and found few friends or allies prepared to endorse its main recommendations.
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NewsITV cuts 400 jobs in Central 'massacre'
Up to 400 jobs will be axed at Central Television as part of ITV plc's cost-cutting drive, Broadcast has learned.
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Milligan to leave Five for BSkyB
Five is set to lose its deputy chief executive, Nick Milligan, who is quitting to join BSkyB in a move that fuels speculation about a bid by Rupert Murdoch for the terrestrial channel, writes Conor Dignam.
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Secret Policeman among winners at RTS awards
Mark Daly, the investigative reporter behind the acclaimed BBC documentary The Secret Policeman , has been awarded young journalist of the year by the Royal Television Society (RTS), writes Lisa Campbell.
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Ideal World in bid to expand factual fare
Ideal World is looking to increase its contemporary factual output with the appointment of its first head of documentaries, writes Glen Mutel.
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MacQuarrie takes control
BBC Scotland head of programmes Ken MacQuarrie is to become the national division's controller in April, taking over from John McCormick who is retiring, writes Glen Mutel.
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R1 lines up new duo
Radio 1 duo Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley will hand over their headphones to Colin Murray and Edith Bowman when they leave the BBC station next month, as exclusively revealed in Broadcast last week. Murray and Bowman, who present the 10.00 till 13.00 slot across the weekend on R1, are ...
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ITV nabs boat race
ITV has poached the exclusive TV rights to the Oxford vs Cambridge Boat Race, which the BBC has been broadcasting since 1926. Sources said that both broadcasters offered similar amounts of money for the 2005 to 2009 package, but ITV had offered broader coverage, including a documentary in advance of ...
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Shine picks Gwilliam
Indie Shine has appointed Sian Gwilliam as its deputy head of production. She will report to director of production Joe McLusky and be charged with helping to oversee the management of the production slate in features and entertainment and working with the creative directors to secure new business. Gwilliam was ...
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Doubleband backed
Channel 4 and the NIFTC/ Invest Company Development Fund are to put£165,000 into Belfast-based DoubleBand Films, as part of C4's Creative Cities programme. DoubleBand regularly pitches to C4 - its recent output for the channel includes George Best's Body, Seven Days that Shook Sven ...
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London facilities take Discreet kit
Three major London post companies have upgraded their facilities with the purchase of Discreet kit. Among the orders are the first installations of the manufacturer's new Smoke and Flame on the SGI Tezro workstation. Discreet did not reveal how much the deals are worth, writes ...
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3 Mills to be sold and used for Olympic bid
East London facility 3 Mills Studios is being sold to the London Development Agency (LDA), which plans to use it as a media centre if Britain's bid to host the 2012 Olympics is successful, writes Farah Jifri.
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Bubble TV finds jobs from start
Sound mixer Chris Phinikas' new London audio facility, Bubble TV , has opened its doors with a string of jobs already underway.
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One hires animators
One Post has taken on two 3D animators for its CGI operations. Duncan McWilliams joins One from The Hive, where he worked on projects for AOL, Bloomberg and Disney. Before The Hive, McWilliams worked at DigM Digital Media and as a freelance graphic designer. Also joining is Michiel de Kraker, ...
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M2 to leave camden
M2 Television has abandoned its Camden branch and moved all the kit and staff to its Soho headquarters. The move will be completed within the next four weeks. Although the two branches currently operate as separate companies, M2 says that no redundancies are planned and the majority of staff will ...