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Razaq handed senior factual role at Sky
Sky One controller James Baker has promoted Amina Razaq to senior commissioning editor for factual entertainment, replacing Jo Pilkington, who quit last month to join indie Monkey.
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Trouble bags US comedies
Flextech channel Trouble has secured its biggest ever slate of US imports following a multi-million pound comedy deal with Warner Brothers International Television Distribution..
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Murphy rejects move up north
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has poured cold water on claims that his channel could move to Manchester as part of a Charter renewal deal.
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NewsPollard attacks NUJ over Furlong
Sky News chief Nick Pollard has attacked the National Union of Journalists for 'jumping on the bandwagon' and using the death of former Sky reporter James Furlong as part of their anti-bullying campaign.
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Sky One's Baker splits top acquisitions role
Sky One controller James Baker has made his first appointments, creating two acquisitions posts.
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C4 deal brings Price-drop.TV onto Freeview
Shopping channel Price-drop.tv has taken one of the remaining slots on the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform, after it agreed a deal with Channel 4 to use its 'gifted' space on the service.
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Optimistic goes to World's End
Johnny Vaughan's indie, World's End, has secured a deal to be a key contributor to the portfolio of new digital channels being launched by David Brook's Optimistic Network.
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BSkyB and ITV in channel talks
ITV is in talks with BSkyB about launching its spin-off channels as joint-ventures.
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NewsRobinson quits Disney
Paul Robinson, managing director of Disney's UK television channels and worldwide head of programming strategy for its US cable network ABC, has quit after five years at the company.
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NewsBBC postpones News 24 relaunch
The BBC's much vaunted relaunch of its News 24 channel has been put back a week following Friday's huge power blackout.
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NewsBaker appoints two at Sky One
Sky One controller James Baker has made his first appointments, creating two new acquisitions posts.
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New role for Henry
Hallmark Channel chief executive Jeff Henry has joined brand exposure experts Margaux Matrix as non-executive chairman. The company, which was set up by former Cap Gemini consultants Steve Burgess and Joe Sweeney, specialises in optical recognition technology to measure brand exposure in TV adverts.
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Cowey moves to urban music show
Former Top of the Pops (TOTP) executive producer Chris Cowey has taken on his first role since leaving the BBC, producing an urban music show for new digital entertainment channel Nation 277.
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Sky channels dominate 'millionaires club' chart
Despite a recent spate of poor ratings for its flagship channel, Sky One, BSkyB continues to dominate multichannel's
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News 24 revamp boosts analysis
The BBC's former media correspondent Nick Higham is to present a new nightly analysis slot on BBC News 24 as part of the channel's revamp which goes live on Monday (1 December).
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NewsCNN promotes Wrenn
CNN International has promoted its websites editor Nick Wrenn to the new position of managing editor of the broadcaster's production and newsgathering operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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NewsBird flies to Disney
Andy Bird, former president of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) International, has resurfaced as president of Walt Disney International.
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NewsFD tipped to quit Sky
BSkyB finance director Martin Stewart may quit the company in the next few months, according to reports.
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NTL to entice subscribers with TCM
Digital channel Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is going free to air on NTL for a trial period from 22 to 28 December in a bid to boost subscribers to NTL's family pack. TCM is also kicking off its first TV advertising campaign on 6 December across Sci Fi, Bravo and ...
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Sky hikes prices to hit ARPU targets
BSkyB is set to increase the price of its top-tier package in January from£38 to£40 in a bid to reach its self-imposed target of making£400 a year out of each subscriber by 2005.