All News articles – Page 4766

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    MERCURY/SAMURA DEAL.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Mercury Media International has struck a deal to represent the award-winning documentaries produced by Insight News TV and Sorious Samura. The trilogy of films, examining the recent civil war in Sierra

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    TRADE TALK - Football crazy.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5's Robert Charles has wrongfooted Sky to win rights to under 21 European football, but can he sustain this success with C5's limited budget?

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    CORRECTION.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    A headline in last week's issue (1.2.02) referred to UK Horizons making an 'illegal' boxing documentary series. The channel is in fact making a series about licensed and unlicensed boxing, both

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    ITC REVISES CODE ON SPORT AND MAJOR EVENTS.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has revised its code on sport and other listed events following the public consultation it launched in October. Alterations include a provision that free-to-air broadcasters should

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    RADIO SPEAKERS CHOSEN.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Emap Performance managing director dance Mark Story will give the keynote speech at the Music Radio 2002 conference. EMI group chairman Eric Nicoli will give the record industry keynote. The event

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    THREE NEW OUTLETS FOR THE DATING CHANNEL.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The TV Group, which runs The Dating Channel, is to launch three new free-to-air channels by the third quarter of this year. TV Group chief executive Peter Nellemann has announced plans

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    ITV's quest for ratings caused peaktime rejig.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    ITV has admitted that its range of programming in peaktime suffered last year with documentaries and current affairs being pushed out of weekday slots in favour of news, writes Steve Aston.

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    Call for regional ITV to go digital.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    ITV should forget trying to fulfil its regional commitments on its main network and should instead launch a separate digital channel to serve the regions, according to Campaign for Quality Television

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    LEADER - Radio success bucks the trend.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Amidst all the doom and gloom of a media recession, the broadcasting industry received some fantastic news last week - radio listening is at an all-time high.The latest set of Rajar

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    JOHN BROMLEY DIES.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Former ITV Sport head John Bromley has died of cancer. He was 68. His last role at ITV was as head of sport at LWT. In his 25-year television career he

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    BRITNEY OPENS DISNEY PARK.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Unique Television, the indie set up by Noel Edmonds, has secured a multimillion dollar deal with Disney to produce a pan-European 'entertainment spectacular' marking the 16 March opening of the new

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    Blaxill rejoins Capital.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    Former Top of the Pops producer Ric Blaxill is rejoining Capital 95.8 FM as deputy programme controller, writes Georgina Lispcomb.

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    BT'S BLAND IN TV RETREAT.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    BT chairman Sir Christopher Bland has backtracked on earlier comments about turning the telecoms group into a broadcaster and programme producer. Speaking to the House of Commons media select committee, he

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    Bidders line up for east midlands radio.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The race to win the hotly contested east midlands analogue radio licence gathered pace this week as 15 bidders lodged applications to the Radio Authority.Proposals were submitted to the regulator by

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    Bennett decision gets wide support.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    TLC executive vice-president and general manager Jana Bennett's appointment as the BBC's first female director of television this week has been welcomed across the industry, with many observers suggesting a 'commercial

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    Gamble on HD kit begins to pay off.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    European companies are beginning to benefit from the demand for high definition production equipment, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    DAVIES TO GIVE THOUGHTS ON BBC'S FUTURE.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    BBC chairman Gavyn Davies is to outline his thoughts on the future of the corporation at a special event organised by the Royal Television Society. The former Goldman Sachs economist, who

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    BBC looks for secret of cool.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is conducting an 11th hour study into the competitive children's television market just days ahead of the launch of its two new kids channels and has roped in former Carlton kids chief Michael Forte to oversee it, writes Simon Ellery.

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    BBC LAUNCHES SMS GAME.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has created a game based on its Walking with Beasts series to be played on mobile phones. Vodafone subscribers will be able to battle the pre-historic beasts using text

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    BBC WORLD REACH GROWS.

    2002-02-08T00:00:00Z

    The BBC commercial international news channel BBC World has hit a record global reach, with 200 million homes now able to receive the channel - a rise of 16 per cent