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Sonic the hedgehog bounces back on fox
Fox Kids Europe has added three new properties to its library, totalling 144 episodes. Animated series Sonic X, marking the return of Sonic the Hedgehog, has been acquired from TMS Entertainment, adventure series Tutenstein from PorchLight Entertainment and fantasy series ...
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Nationwide arrow
Chrysalis Radio is set to make rock station The Arrow available nationwide, completing its portfolio of brands broadcast digitally across the UK. When Arrow launches on Sky Digital this month, it will join stablemates Heart, Galaxy and LBC.
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Ofcom appoints standards head
Ofcom has appointed Independent Television Commission (ITC) head of factual programmes Chris Banatvala to the key post of head of standards, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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All-in-one system set for IBC debut
TWI interactive, the digital media and technology arm of Transworld International, has developed what could be the world's first all-in-one digital system for producing and delivering both new media and broadcast content, writes Will Strauss.
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Diana doc gets international airing
Diana: The Night She Died, which aired in the UK on Five in June, has been sold to Canada's CBC by TVF International, who will broadcast it to mark the sixth anniversary of Princess Diana's death. TVF International has also sold the programme to ABC in Australia, NHK in Japan ...
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Waterside demise adds to Edinburgh woes
Edinburgh production and facilities company Waterside Television has gone into liquidation resulting in the loss of around 17 jobs, writes Ian White.The company, which majored in corporate and commercials work,
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5 Live in Man U deal
BBC Radio 5 Live has secured the rights to Manchester United's Champions League matches for the next three years. The deal with the club takes effect immediately and all MUFC Champions League games will be broadcast on Five Live or digital station Five Live Sports Extra. Goalkeeping veteran Peter Schmeichel ...
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NewsRadio 4 chief sets sights on baby boomers
Radio 4 controller Helen Boaden has told programme-makers to put aside stereotypes of the station's listeners as stern octogenarians and inject more 'informal irreverence' into their ideas, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC3 hires Anstiss
The BBC has appointed the series producer of Kenyon Confronts as executive producer responsible for current affairs on BBC3. Samantha Anstiss replaces Colin Savage, who has been promoted to development executive, current affairs. Anstiss has produced BBC2's Raising the Roofand ...
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RTE to make debut across nation on 252
Irish state broadcaster RTE is to broadcast its main radio station across the UK for the first time after taking full control of the frequency once held by music station Atlantic 252, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV1 dissects David Beckham's body
Granada is set to add to the David Beckham media frenzy with a new show for ITV1, serving up a part-by-part examination of the soccer idol's much admired body.
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Christmas test the nation for BBC1
BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of entertainment commissioning Jane Lush have ordered a Christmas spin-off of Test the Nation from Talent Television. Test the Nation - National Test 2003 is being edited by BBC political unit editor Alexandra Henderson and John Kaye Cooper will executive produce alongside producer Jean ...
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BBC admits to error over Kelly
The BBC has admitted it wrongly inflated the importance of Dr David Kelly as Andrew Gilligan's source in a statement issued after the BBC governors' emergency meeting in July, it emerged this week, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC renews faith in docu-soaps
The BBC has given a new lease of life to the docu-soap - which went out of favour in the late 1990s after a glut of cheap imitations - by commissioning a raft of new series on subjects including the Sylvia Young Theatre School, writes ...
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'Cot potatoes' gorge on TV
First it was the couch potatoes - now a new breed of 'cot potatoes' is emerging. A new study out today has revealed that over 80% of children under six are watching up to six hours of television a day, ' writes Sam Matthews.
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NewsEmap to get its Mojo working on radio
Emap is preparing to extend its Mojo magazine brand into the digital radio arena, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsScottish indies at disadvantage
Scottish production companies are being held back by a lack of clout with network commissioners and by 'weak monitoring' of commissioning targets, a new report has concluded, writes Gavin Stamp.
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NewsOne giant leap into the news archives
Astronaut Neil Armstrong's 1969 moonwalk is the most requested news clip, according to a new top 20 archive moments list compiled by ITN Archive.
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NewsWireless Group makes first ever profits
Kelvin MacKenzie's Wireless Group has reported its first ever half year profits and confirmed it will launch legal action against radio industry body Rajar, writes Michael Rosser.
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NewsGilligan's report made 'forceful claims'
The daughter of Dr David Kelly yesterday told the Hutton inquiry he could not understand the 'forceful claims' made in Andrew Gilligan's original story on the Iraq dossier, writes Leigh Holmwood.