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UKTV reshuffle will drop editor roles for genre split
BBC 2 controller Jane Root's right-hand woman Charlotte Ashton is to join UKTV as its new head of factual programmes as part of a shake-up of the company's senior programme management team, writes Leigh Holmwood
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BBC: pay-TV channels could be free on DTT
Pay-TV operators may choose to offer their channels free of charge on the new BBC/Crown Castle digital terrestrial TV (DTT) platform Freeview, once it has reached at least 3 million households, according to BBC director of marketing and communications Andy Duncan, write Leigh Holmwood & ...
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Fremantle makes most of Idol
Fremantle Media is hoping to capitalise on the success of its Pop Idol format by setting up a music subsidiary, write Jon Rogers and Georgina Lipscomb
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Sheffield International Documentary Festival: Asian doc wins C4 public pitch
A documentary following British Asians who travel to India to find love scooped the£30,000 Channel 4 deal for emerging film-makers at the festival, amid fears the session could lead to indies' ideas being poached, writes Penny Hughes
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Off the record - Model behaviour.
GMTV is poised to hang out the bunting at Madam Tussaud's waxworks museum for its 10th
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Off the record - Starry i bash not a hit with World.
Controversy has exploded within the Ivory Towers of Bush House after the corporation's new media merchants
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Off the record - On the job 24/7.
Being a government minister does have its perks. Just ask broadcasting minister Kim Howells. To his
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Will the hybrid flourish?
Although the Carlton Granada merger is seen as a good idea, there is no shortage of difficulties to be overcome if and when the two companies do pull it off
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INTERVIEW - Open to change.
Peter Fincham, ex-Talkback boss and newly installed chief executive of Fremantle, is eager to usher in a new phase at the producer to keep in step with Mark Thompson's plans for radical change at Channel 4
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CITY WATCH - A second chance for ITV's giants.
The City's response to the proposed Carlton and Granada merger was muted to say the least, as analysts weighed up the obstacles that need to be overcome before investors can hope to get their money back
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CARLTON/GRANADA MERGER - Grown-up stuff.
ITV's choice of CBBC's Nigel Pickard as its director of programmes came out of the blue, but his appointment could prove quietly effective
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TV MANAGEMENT - Mind your own business.
Whenever a broadcaster goes in search of a new chief executive a familiar list of the usual suspects crops up. Is the television industry suffering from a debilitating lack of senior management talent at the top? Peter Keighron reports
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TX - Men behaving oddly.
What makes us human is the all-encompassing question posed by BBC 1's new popular science series,
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LEADER - Indie issue that won't go away.
If this week's total of 39 responses to the ITC's programme supply review (published or otherwise) proves anything, it's that this is one of the TV industry's hottest issues. Sadly the BBC - in its usual spirit of openness - has decided to keep its thoughts behind closed doors
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FREE TO AIR - BBC 2 on tip-top form.
There is nothing like watching a woman in stays wield a strangely stitched leather dildo around
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - PACE DVTA DOWNLOAD.
Pace has successfully downloaded its digital television adapter (DTVA) timer function, marking the first DTT download
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - EFFECTS CONFERENCE.
Moving image society BKSTS is holding a four-day visual effects conference on 21 to 24 November
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Technology & facilities - Pinewood-Shepperton set to broadcast over IP.
Pinewood-Shepperton's networking subsidiary Studiolink claims it is now ready to start real-time broadcasting over its IP fibre network, writes Barbara Marshall
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NDS' BROADBAND GONG.
NDS has won a technical innovation award at the Broadband Communications Europe (BCE) awards for its