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Terrestrials plan new Solus card.
Terrestrial broadcasters are devising a plan to resurrect the free viewing cards that allow viewers to watch ITV, Channel 4 and Five on satellite without subscribing to Sky, writes Michael Rosser.
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RIGHTON QUITS CARLTON FOR OWN VENTURE.
Carlton Westcountry controller of features and programme development Caroline Righton is to leave the company next
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EX CENTRAL CONTROLLER JOINS INDIE TOUCH.
Former Central controller of factual programmes Eric Harwood has joined Dorset-based independent producer Touch Productions as
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GREGORY MEMORIAL DATE CONFIRMED.
A memorial service for Granada Entertainment deputy head of production John Gregory, who died suddenly on
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Thumbs up for Pact/Bectu freelance deal.
Members of broadcasting union Bectu have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a package of changes to the Pact/Bectu Freelance Production Agreement, which will mean employers contributing to freelance pensions for the first time since the 1980s, writes Will
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Docherty puts forward switch-off solution.
Former Telewest new media chief David Docherty is seeking government backing for a new set-top box service that he claimed will help the government achieve analogue switch-off by 2010, writes Colin Robertson.
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Search for new sky chief widens.
BSkyB has instructed corporate head-hunters to find it a new chief executive in a bid to calm fears from City investors that chairman Rupert Murdoch is trying to shoo-in his youngest son, James, writes Rosemary Gallagher.
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Comment - The digital dichotomy.
2010 switchover is looking shaky at best - a factor the BBC must take on board if its digital plans are to succeed Conor Dignam Editor.
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Davies: we were right to trust Gilligan.
BBC chairman Gavyn Davies defended the BBC governors' role in the Dr David Kelly affair again this week, saying it was right that they should not have investigated the accuracy of Andrew Gilligan's original report, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Peter Stothard joins board at September.
Sir Peter Stothard, the former editor of The Times, is to enter the indie sector with a board-level role at September Films, writes Colin Robertson.
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OFF THE RECORD - SKY SPORTS OUT FOR 31.
The fine people at BSkyB might know a thing or two about sports rights but they
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OFF THE RECORD - BAD WEEK.
Living TV's Richard Woolfe. Tipped for top job at Five in Tuesday's FT Creative Business. Only
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OFF THE RECORD - GOOD WEEK.
Fresh-faced Dan Chambers. At 34 the youngest terrestrial programme chief in the history of British television.
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OFF THE RECORD - TV HACK'S OTHER ROLE.
Swapping the grimy streets of regional news reporting for the stardust of the silver screen was
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Production - Technology analysis - The sound of silence.
If a channel goes off air, money is lost and heads could roll. Kevin Hilton asks what systems play-out centres have in place to prevent disasters - natural or otherwise.
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Ratings - Canny mix of factual and forensics moves Five on.
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Production - Transmission impossible?
With contracts like Discovery's up for grabs, play-out is turning into a bun fight. But the market is also increasingly polarised, as Kevin Hilton reports.
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Production - TX - Take it to the limit.
Train surfing, base jumping and extreme paintball are just some of the pursuits featured in Extremists,
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PRODUCTION - A BLUFFER'S GUIDE TO: INTERSTITIALS.
It sounds like something in a medical dictionary and in fact there is such a thing
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Production - On location - French connections.
Howard Webster jets off to France for the filming of the celebrity edition of Fort Boyard and avoids having to leap off anything high with a large elastic band attached to his anatomy.