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For arts' sake
Channel 4's Janey Walker argues that it is still up to mainstream channels to keep arts programming alive, despite the proliferation of cable and satellite stations.
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Arts - The Business Page - Arts and graft
The worldwide explosion in cable and satellite channels may offset losses suffered as traditional buyers of arts programming, such as the BBC and Channel 4, have seen their budgets cut back. Jane Marlow reports.
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TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL SALES
Competition over space in the schedule for arts programmes is fierce all over the world, but it seems a little creative re-definition could go some way to help place what the
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SPECIALIST DEAL-MAKERS ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE: BRIAN JACKSON, HEAD OF GINGER FILM PRODUCTIONS
Brian Jackson was making commercials and documentaries before he stumbled across a previously untapped market in arts programming.Thirty years ago he founded Ginger Film Productions to produce documentaries and Brian Jackson
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INTERVIEW - View from the top
With Marcus Plantin completing his first year in his old job as programme director, LWT has regained something of the 'family' feel of old. But he has plans to broaden its horizons in his second year at the helm.
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PRODUCTION CREDITS
Executive producers: Charles Brand, Tessa Ross. Producer: Greg Brenman.Writer: Tony Grounds. Director: Adrian Shergold. Director of photography: Daf Hobson. Location manager: Jane Soans. Script editor: Roanna Benn.Casting director: Jane Fothergill. Costume
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OFF THE RECORD - Upfront and personal
Indie Upfront Television has secured an exclusive interview with Lorena Bobbitt, the woman, you will remember, who cut off her husband's manhood and threw it out of a car window. She
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OFF THE RECORD - Pop quiz
Which ginger-haired breakfast DJ had to make a po-faced on-air apology this week after launching a withering attack on the hit ITV gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Answer: Chris
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OFF THE RECORD - Talk IS cheap
Talk Radio came over all classical on Valentine's Day when listeners were treated to the romantic favourite, Romanza. But budgets being what they are, the station couldn't afford to shell out
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OFF THE RECORD - OTR gets results
Good to see Matthew Bannister (above right) back in the national press once again, just a week after Off The Record bemoaned his strange low profile since he took over at
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OFF THE RECORD - A friend in need ..
At least Vanessa can count on the support of her BBC colleagues during her programme's current travails. Or at least that's what OTR thought until it heard Nicky Campbell trailing his
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OFF THE RECORD - A Brum deal
Much excitement over at Brummie radio station 100.7 Heart FM, where more than£40,000-worth of prizes are on offer in a poptabulous competition.Among the top-notch goodies up for grabs are a
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OFF THE RECORD - Waxing lyrical
OTR is reassured to discover that the quality of BBC 2's doc slot, Modern Times, will not be diminished following the departure of editor Stephen Lambert. This week's offering, for instance,
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OFF THE RECORD - Charting the musings of industry grands fromages
This week: Chris Parry and Xfm, London's 'only alternative' rock station 1994 Xfm, launched by Parry in 1992, fails to get a permanent licence for the second time. 'I just don't
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Redmond puts Brookside in the dock
Brookside creator Phil Redmond wants to turn the ailing Channel 4 soap into 'Friends-having-Sex-in-the-City-in-the-North', as part of an extensive relaunch due to be completed this summer, writes Steve Clarke.Redmond, who signed
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C4 to get first-ever fine for Chickens
Channel 4 is heading for its first-ever fine following the recent admission that key scenes in a documentary purporting to show rent boys plying their trade were faked.Members of the Independent
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ITV fills first News at Ten-free schedule with dramatic fare
ITV is to kick off its first week minus News at Ten with a peaktime schedule packed full of drama and a third run of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?,
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ITC report boosts DTT
The number of homes in the UK that can receive digital terrestrial TV (DTT) could be significantly boosted before analogue is switched off, according to a report from the Independent Television
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Broadcasters under fire on sex from BSC
The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 have been rapped on the knuckles by the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) in one of the watchdog's most extensive attacks on sex on TV yet,
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ITV COMMISSIONS FLY-ON-THE-WALL DOC ON EX-SOAP STAR
ITV has commissioned a one-off film from Granada Entertainment charting Martine McCutcheon's progress since leaving BBC soap EastEnders. It will cover the recording of her first album in New York and