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Rockface audience plummets
BBC 1's Mountain-rescue drama contributes to channel's second worst peaktime share this year
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IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah.
On how the web can enable programme-makers and viewers to engage in meaningful dialogue.
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WEBSITE TO REDUCE RISK.
A new website offering assistance and advice to news teams reporting from hostile environments launched this week, developed by BBC senior safety and security chief Tony Loughran. Supported by the News
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OFF THE RECORD - Not much of a recommendation.
Now this is embarrassing. Off The Record has in its mucky paws a copy of a fax from BBC Recruitment asking for a reference for Mark Freeland, the recently appointed head
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TV TRAINING SET UP FOR MINORITIES IN WALES.
A new training scheme has been unveiled to increase the percentage of black and minority ethnic people working in the Welsh film, television and interactive media industries. Devised by Cyfle, the
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MEDIA RULES PUT OFF.
Ministers' long-awaited response to broadcasters' demands for media ownership rules to be relaxed are to be delayed again. Just a week after broadcasting minister Kim Howells told parliament the draft communications
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MacKenzie slams Rajar ratings.
The Wireless Group chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie has sparked controversy in the radio sector once again, this time criticising the Rajar audience measurement system as misleading and inaccurate, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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PRODUCTION SHOW LIST.
The Production Show, which runs from 21 to 23 May at Olympia, London, has unveiled its list of speakers. BBC controller of factual commissioning Nicola Moody, BBC controller of entertainment commissioning
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TRADE TALK - Teenage kicks.
Will Channel 5's Sham Sandhu ensure that 16 to 24-year-olds can't get the channel out of their heads with the Kylie special he ordered last week?
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UBC MEDIA SETS UP WEATHER JV WITH MET OFFICE.
UBC Media Group has developed a Meteorological Office (Met Office) digital weather service. The service will be freely available on the Digizone data channel and will be updated six times a
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ITV snaps up Living TV show.
In an attempt to shore up its daytime share and save money, ITV has taken the rare decision to buy in a factual series which was commissioned by another broadcaster, writes Steve Aston.
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PROGRAMMING - LOUIS ON THE HORIZON.
UK Horizons is to dedicate an entire weekend to Louis Theroux, writes Jon Rogers.
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Lion Scotland makes history.
Glasgow-based indie Lion Scotland is pushing into high-end history programming and has appointed producer John Toba to oversee the drive, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NESTA GRANT FOR HORNBY.
Documentary filmmaker Craig Hornby has received a #75,000 National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) fellowship to establish a community TV network in his Teeside. The three-year fellowship will
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SIR PAUL LENDS VOICE TO GMG.
Musician Paul McCartney this week launched Guardian Media Group Radio's new analogue radio station in Yorkshire, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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PROGRAMMING - ITV SENDS JOHN McCARTHY GLOBETROTTING.
ITV controller of news, current affairs, arts and religion Steve Anderson has commissioned CTVC to produce a show for ITV 1 exploring the relationship between politics and religion. The 6 x
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PROGRAMMING - FOX KIDS UK WINS OLSEN TWINS SERIES RIGHTS.
Fox Kids UK has secured exclusive cable and satellite rights to the live-action series So Little Time produced by Dualstar Productions, the outfit owned by 15-year-old twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
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FOOTBALLERS' WIVES GO TO OZ.
Shed Productions has sold its ITV drama Footballers' Wives to a raft of territories including Australia (Network Ten) and New Zealand (TVNZ), writes Penny Hughes.
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PROGRAMMING - ITN FACTUAL TO MAKE SUZY LAMPLUGH FILM.
ITV controller of news, current affairs, art and religion Steve Anderson has commissioned ITN Factual to produce a documentary for its Real Crime strand, based on the disappearance of estate agent
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Quantel launches generationQ range.
Quantel has unveiled a completely redesigned 'generationQ' range of production, post, broadcast graphics and news systems, all based around Windows 2000.At its heart is a new generation of scaleable Quantel software