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Five Live boss wants stronger identity
Shennan expresses desire for dedicated team with one base
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Doomed Dome raid to get comedy treatment
Principal Pictures in negotiations with terrestrial broadcasters about 90-minute film
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C4's Durrance to follow Bender with new role
Commissioning editor, night-time to move on at the end of March
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ITN World News appoints producer
ITN's World News for Public Television, which broadcasts to more than 50 per cent of US households, has appointed Mark Holt as executive producer.He joins next week from
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Holman fills loonland development role
International children's production outfit TV-Loonland has appointed Celia Holman to the newly created role of head of development in its expanding London office.Holman, a former Macmillan editorial director, will oversee
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Digital broadcaster's alliance set to rubbish BBC claims
Eight-strong group expected to urge BBC to aim digital service at over 65s
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Atlantic radio promotes Henderson
Long-wave radio station Atlantic 252 has appointed Sarah Henderson as its new programme controller.Henderson, who has been responsible for researching and programming the station's music output since 1998, will now
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Cockcroft dies
Award-winning documentary-maker Barry Cockcroft has died aged 68.Cockcroft worked at Yorkshire Television where he made around 100 TV documentaries in a career that spanned four decades.
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Ecosse films takes on programme makers
Indie Ecosse Films has bolstered its team with the appointment of programme-makers James Saynor and Elizabeth Bradley as development executive and development producer respectively.Saynor, who was a former script editor
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Virtue appoints chief
Webcasting and streaming specialist Virtue Broadcasting has promoted head of production Richard Griffiths to chief operating officer.Griffiths, a former GMTV producer and L!ve TV presenter, will head Virtue's 30-strong UK
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Hartog joins Pearson
Pearson Television has appointed Who Wants to be a Millionaire?executive producer Stephanie Hartog to the newly-created role of controller of light entertainment, acquisitions and resources, worldwide production.
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Cable 17 staff sworn to secrecy on closure
The closure of one of the last local cable channels is being marred by attempts by owner Telewest to gag the 15-strong full-time workforce.Cable 17, based in Croydon, Surrey, is
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Dyke and Gavin battle over Worldwide future.
BBC Director General Greg Dyke and BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin are understood to be at loggerheads over the future of BBC Worldwide. The two chiefs have allegedly failed to come
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C5 awaits go-ahead to change news for soap.
Channel 5 could this week get the go-ahead from the Independent Television Commission (ITC) to move its main evening news bulletin out of peak time in order to make way for its acquired soap Home and Away, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Big Brother 2 Website.
Victoria Real has won the contract for designing and building the website for Channel 4's Big Brother 2, beating off competition from the producers of C4's new media offshoot e4.com, writes Jon Rogers.
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Former radio head resigns.
Former BBC digital radio head Glyn Jones, who was effectively sidelined in a departmental reshuffle last year, has resigned from the corporation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ITN expands into digital news service.
ITN is to provide news for the new ITV digital TV interactive service, Text+, in a move that consolidates the news provider's relationship with the broadcaster, writes Penny Hughes.
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Rivals hit out again at BBC digital plan.
The alliance of satellite and cable broadcasters objecting to the BBC's new digital channels is expected to attack the suggestion that the services will drive digital take-up, as it submits comments
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Principal plots Dome ram raid.
London-based Principal Pictures is developing a£6.9m comedy drama, Ram Raiders, after gaining exclusive access to information about the events leading up to to the botched£90m Millennium Dome diamond raid, writes Penny Hughes.
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R5 needs own identity.
BBC Radio Five Live controller Bob Shennan has vowed to create a standalone identity for the station with its own front door like the corporation's other four stations, writes Katy Elliott.