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    Satellites are nearly full up, warns NTL

    2004-06-24T08:30:00Z

    NTL Broadcast believes that satellite platforms may run out of capacity in the next three years and has secured the last available transponder lease on Eurobird to maintain its growth.

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    Linsey takes job at Talent

    2004-06-24T08:30:00Z

    Mark Linsey, the former managing director of indie Zeal, has taken a new job at Talent Television.

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    Mackenzie rails at Rajar scaremongering

    2004-06-24T08:30:00Z

    The Wireless Group (TWG) chairman Kelvin MacKenzie has attacked radio audience board Rajar for 'scaremongering' after managing director Sally de la Bedoyere told Broadcast last week introducing electronic measurement would cost up to£25m a year. MacKenzie, who is currently involved in a legal battle with Rajar over the issue, claimed ...

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    Map time rolls out

    2004-06-24T08:30:00Z

    French developer Allegorithmic has designed Map Time, a plug-in for Adobe After Effects and Discreet Combustion. Map Time is a fully editable heterogeneous video filer designer that allows artists to create and manipulate complex animated patterns, effects and transitions. It features more than 350 preset visual effects.

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    Mipcom names personality of the year

    2004-06-24T08:30:00Z

    Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of Five majority shareholder RTL, is to be given the personality of the year award at this year's Mipcom TV market. Zeiler, a former Austrian government press officer who has headed the German media group since March 2003, will pick up the award at a gala ...

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    Thompson stamps authority on BBC

    2004-06-24T07:51:05Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson moved swiftly to establish a new regime this week, tearing up Greg Dyke's management structure and launching a series of internal reviews.

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    ITV pumps extra£36m into digital brands

    2004-06-24T07:50:35Z

    ITV is pumping an extra£36m into its digital channel strategy in a bid to triple its income from multichannel broadcasting.

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    C4 experiment tests steroids on athletes

    2004-06-24T07:50:30Z

    Athletes are to be injected with anabolic steroids for a Channel 4 programme that will attempt to measure the impact of performance-enhancing drugs.

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    All3Media eyes Shameless indie

    2004-06-24T07:50:25Z

    All3Media, the media group run by former Granada chief executive Steve Morrison, is understood to be eyeing Company Pictures, the producer of Channel 4's Shameless , as its next acquisition target.

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    BBC lays out news academy plan

    2004-06-24T07:50:20Z

    BBC star reporters such as Andrew Marr and John Simpson are to help train fledgling news recruits as part of plans for a multimillion pound BBC journalism college.

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    Pact challenges budget squeeze

    2004-06-24T07:50:15Z

    Producers' alliance Pact is complaining to Ofcom that the BBC and Channel 4 are trying to cut indie production budgets to claw back money lost as a result of rights changes.

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    Curwen quits Folio to set up own indie

    2004-06-24T07:50:10Z

    Folio head of programmes Nick Curwin has quit to set up a factual indie and has already secured a development retainer from Channel 4 and a number of commissions.

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    ITV picks off-peak chief

    2004-06-24T07:50:05Z

    ITV has poached the BBC's daytime scheduling chief, Stephen Price, to join its newly created off-peak unit.

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    Popstars back in fresh guise

    2004-06-24T07:50:00Z

    Popstars - the ITV show which launched Hear'say and Girls Aloud - is to return for a third series, this time creating boy-girl duets.

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    BBC joins Russia for Space Race

    2004-06-24T07:49:55Z

    The BBC is to make its first co-production with a Russian broadcaster with a£3m landmark docu-drama series that aims to give the definitive story of the Cold War race to be the first in space.

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    BBC to set up journalism college

    2004-06-23T10:31:49Z

    The BBC is to set up its own multi-million pound journalism college as a consequence of the Hutton inquiry, it confirmed this morning (Wednesday).

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    Thompson overhauls BBC top tier

    2004-06-23T09:36:40Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson yesterday (Tuesday) unveiled his blueprint for the future of the corporation, with a radical overhaul of the way it is structured and a warning that it must not be so 'arrogant'.

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    TWG attacks Rajar measurement claims

    2004-06-23T09:22:35Z

    The Wireless Group (TWG) chairman Kelvin MacKenzie has attacked radio audience board Rajar for 'scaremongering' over its claim that introducing electronic measurement would cost up to£25m a year.

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    Lighting: Five could buy Flextech

    2004-06-23T09:11:19Z

    Five chief executive Jane Lighting has signalled an interest in buying Telewest's content business Flextech.

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    Thompson unveils new BBC management

    2004-06-22T15:53:28Z

    New BBC director general Mark Thompson has unveiled radical plans for the re-organisation of the corporation in a speech to all 28,000 staff.