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    SKY DOUBLES SCREENS.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Sky News Active is doubling the number of enhanced content screens on offer from four to eight as part of a wider move to improve its interactive offering. On top of

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    OPINION - Dominating the digital domain.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The new BBC digital channels are about competition not public service and will reduce choice rather than expand it, argues John Hambley of digital channel Artsworld.

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    DEVILISHLY STRANGE.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Molinare's drama dubbing team were responsible for building the supernatural audio atmosphere of Strange, a murder mystery with a devilish twist, produced by BBC entertainment with Big Bear films for BBC 1, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    SIMPSONS DECISION.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    As Broadcast went to press Channel 4 and Channel 5 were expected to learn who had secured terrestrial rights to US cartoon The Simpsons from 2006. Current rights holder BBC 2,

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    Oneword wins US digital deal.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    National digital radio channel Oneword is expected to pocket an extra #625,000 this year after signing a ground-breaking deal to become the first UK commercial audio service to be broadcast across the whole of the US, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    NOTHING REAL DEAL.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    US visual effects software firm Nothing Real has been bought by Apple. Details of the deal were unavailable as Broadcast went to press but in a statement Apple said it 'plans

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    RORY PECK DATE SET.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    The Rory Peck Trust has set the date for this year's Rory Peck Awards which celebrate the work of freelance camera operators in TV news and current affairs. The event will

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    REAL RADIO LAUNCH DATE.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Guardian Media Group Radio has announced that its Yorkshire-based Real Radio station is to launch on 25 March. It will target 25 to 54-year-olds and feature music from the past four

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    DANN TO LEAVE EMAP.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Emap Performance managing director of pop Trevor Dann is leaving the company to set up his own development and production company. Dann, former BBC head of music entertainment, joined Emap, the

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    Daily Mail plans Metro FM radio.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Metro, the free weekday newspaper given away in cities such as London and Birmingham, could be handed a companion radio service under plans being explored by its owner the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    TX - The crest of a wave.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    There can be few more challenging arenas for sports television producers than the open water. For producer/director Russ Malkin of Image Wizard Television, covering the World Wakeboarding Championships last year in

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    Major Cotswolds facility opens.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Kevin Godley of 10cc fame is behind Cotswolds-based TV facility Blue Egg Studios which launches next week, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    EVANS - CORRECTION.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    In an interview with Virgin Radio programme director Paul Jackson (Broadcast, 1.2.02), we published comments by Jackson which were critical of Chris Evans' attendance record while a DJ on the Virgin

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    CLOCKWORK HIRING.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Broadcast equipment and finance provider Clockwork Capital has appointed former BBC MediaArc interactive account manager Nick Looby as broadcast account manager. Before joining BBC Media-Arc, Looby was business development manager with

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    MUSIC CHOICE DEAL.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Digital audio broadcaster Music Choice has struck a content deal with Phonographic Performance to broadcast music from its library representing 3,000 record companies. The broadcaster airs 10 channels on Sky Digital

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    SPORTAL CHIEF TO DITG.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Former Sportal chief executive Neil MacDonald has joined the Digital Interactive Television Group (DITG) as sales and marketing director. MacDonald will lead the commercial development of the group's interactive TV interests,

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    UNION RAISES CASH.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Union Media, which owns TV drama and documentary-maker Union Pictures and has a 50 per cent stake in film producer Natural Nylon, has announced plans to pump up to #2m into

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    CARRY ON INDIA.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Carry On Up the Khyber, the classic comic film which lampoons British rule in colonial India and features a blacked up Kenneth Williams playing an Indian rajah, is set to be made available in India following a deal between rights-holder Carlton Internatio

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    Pinewood launches broadband service.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Pinewood Shepperton Studios is launching a new service next month called Studiolink to provide broadband connectivity to film and television studios in Europe and the US.The new service, which will be

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    Creative briefs - News in brief.

    2002-02-22T00:00:00Z

    Framestore CFC is behind the visual effects for Bartle Bogle Hegarty's latest commercial for Levi's engineered jeans. Called Odyssey, the ad was directed by Jonathan Glazer and features two denim-clad Romeo