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    XFM helps out student radio networks

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    XFM is throwing a lifeline to student radio stations after it emerged that the company behind many university networks, Campus Media, has been declared insolvent. The XFM Student Radio Partnership Programme will offer production and marketing support and funding for licences and equipment. This would include transmitting XFM free on ...

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    TV set sales hiring

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    The TV Set Group has appointed Martin Rogers as film and VT sales manager. TV Set has recently expanded with the purchase of P3, which was then merged with Arena Digital to create Arena P3. Rogers had previously worked at Dubbs, Evolutions, The Machine Room and Visnews.

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    Orion trades its Treasures to ITV

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    ORION TV, the indie set up by former LNN Factuals head Bob Whittaker, has won two commissions - a rare order from Artsworld and a second series of a daytime show for ITV that originally aired on BBC1.

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    Target represents new pre-school show

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Target Entertainment is to represent the new pre-school show from Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman. Target will look to sell the international TV rights of Fifi and the Flowertots in territories excluding the UK, US and Canada. Chapman ...

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    Sky One spins off Road Wars

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Sky One has commissioned a crime spin-off series of its successful police traffic footage show Road Wars.

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    Ricochet scores property orders

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    Lifestyle indie Ricochet has followed up the success of its Channel 4 hit Supernanny by winning more than 50 hours of commissions from both Channel 4 and the BBC.

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    UBC snaps up Smooth

    2004-08-12T08:30:00Z

    UBC Media has bolstered its production clout by acquiring Smooth Operations , the largest regional radio indie in the UK.

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    Subs overtake ads as TV's main earner

    2004-08-12T07:50:42Z

    Subscription has overtaken advertising revenue as the biggest source of income for British television for the first time in the medium's history.

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    Five movies rival pay-TV

    2004-08-12T07:50:40Z

    Five is to premiere Hollywood blockbuster Terminator 3 before any of its pay-TV rivals after securing a major new movie deal with Sony Pictures Television International.

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    RDF to make C4 rival to BBC2's The Apprentice

    2004-08-12T07:50:14Z

    Channel 4 is enlisting three charismatic millionaires for a formatted documentary to rival BBC2's The Apprentice.

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    Humphreys joins C4 as pact ends

    2004-08-12T07:50:10Z

    Channel 4 has marked the end of its no-poaching agreement with Five by signing the channel's recently departed commissioning editor for factual entertainment, Liam Humphreys.

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    C4 talks over merger with Jowell

    2004-08-12T07:50:08Z

    Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has met with media secretary Tessa Jowell to discuss the viability of a proposed merger with Five.

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    Thorogood takes ITV daytime job

    2004-08-12T07:50:06Z

    UKTV head of lifestyle Nick Thorogood has taken the role of editor of daytime at ITV.

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    BBC2 seeks advice from Widdecombe

    2004-08-12T07:50:04Z

    Tory MP and well-known battleaxe Ann Widdecombe is to become TV's latest agony aunt with a new BBC2 series in which she dishes out no-nonsense advice.

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    NFTS brings in Bolland to build up TV courses

    2004-08-12T07:50:02Z

    The National Film and Television School (NFTS) has poached BBC Scotland head of entertainment and comedy Mike Bolland to head a revamped television department at the college.

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    Granada wins ABC pilot

    2004-08-12T07:50:00Z

    Granada USA has secured a broadcast pilot commission from US broadcaster ABC for a show in which two strangers swap wallets and use their contents to live new lives for a week.

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    BBC meets indie quota

    2004-08-11T11:15:40Z

    The BBC commissioned 28.8% of its programmes from independents in 2003 - meeting its 25% indie target for the first time in four years, new figures from Ofcom have confirmed.

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    R2 to push digital radio

    2004-08-11T10:23:41Z

    The BBC has enlisted the help of Terry Wogan and Johnnie Walker to run a month-long digital radio awareness campaign on Radio 2.

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    Knightrider squares up to Morse in battle of TV cars

    2004-08-11T09:53:09Z

    Kitt from Knightrider , Inspector Morse's elegant Jaguar and the Robin Reliant driven by the Trotters in Only Fools and Horses will battle it out for the accolade of greatest TV car in a new series for Sky One.

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    Knightrider & Only Fools in battle of TV cars

    2004-08-11T09:53:08Z

    Kitt from Knightrider , Inspector Morse's elegant Jaguar and the Robin Reliant driven by the Trotters in Only Fools and Horses will battle it out for the accolade of greatest TV car in a new series for Sky One.