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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BBC to dramatise Bakewell murder
The BBC is to press ahead with a drama based on the controversial Bakewell cemetary murder case in which Stephen Downing spent 27 years in prison before being cleared, despite claims by police earlier this year that he was still the main suspect, writes Leigh ...
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MacKenzie set for court battle
Kelvin mackenzie has confirmed he will launch legal action against radio industry body Rajar 'within a few weeks', claiming its measurement system is costing him millions of pounds in lost advertising revenue, writes Michael Rosser.
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BBC rural reporter
BBC News has appointed its first rural affairs correspondent in a bid to enhance its coverage of the countryside amid criticism that it failed to cover last year's countryside march adequately. Tom Heap, previously science and environment correspondent, will be charged with providing greater context to countryside stories from his ...
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Farm's BBC coup
The key production and management team has been put in place for the launch of The Farm Group's new facility, Uncle. Andrew McKerlie, formerly the BBC's relationship manager within factual and learning, joins as general manager, which The Farm called
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NewsBBC unit to monitor 'hate speech'
BBC Monitoring, the corporation's government-funded arm that tracks the world's media, is to turn cyber-spy and monitor internet chat sites in a bid to pick up
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BBC/NBC probe Saddam regime
US Broadcaster NBC and the BBC have co-commissioned a major series from ORTV, which the indie believes will be the 'definitive and landmark' documentary series on Saddam Hussein's rule of Iraq, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Big Brother set for russian revolution
Russia is set to become the latest country to be struck by Big Brotherfever after the show's creator Endemol, the Dutch TV producer and distributor, signed a deal to produce a local version. The show will air on Channel 1 - Russia's most watched network ...
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Blair may let TVbroadcast press briefings
Broadcasters are poised for a big breakthrough after Tony Blair signalled he is prepared to allow the government's daily briefings to be televised. The Prime Minister has asked for the idea to be explored by the committee headed by Bob Phillis, chief executive of the Guardian Media Group, which has ...
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Blue Peter's marson steps up to editor
The BBC has appointed a new editor for Blue Peter- only the fifth appointment in the programme's 45-year history. The show's series producer, Richard Marson, is to take on the role after five years on the show. He replaces Steve Hocking, who has taken on ...
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Edinburgh festival role for Boland
E4 head of programmes Murray Boland is to chair the advisory committee for next year's Edinburgh International Televi-sion Festival, writes Gavin Stamp.
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Bowie at pictures
As part of the first event of its kind, a David Bowie concert will be broadcast live from Riverside Studios to cinemas across Europe next week. The show will be broadcast in 5.1 surround sound to the Odeon West End in London and theatres in Paris, Munich and Zurich. The ...