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    Home & Leisure focuses on men.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Home & Leisure has ordered 130 hours of programming to help shore up its position in the men's lifestyle market.Commissioned by Discovery Home & Leisure director of programmes Katy Thorogood,

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    POPSTARS PRODUCER HIT BY FIRST HALF LOSSES.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Sportsworld, which co-owns the rights to Popstars, has seen its shares plummet after issuing a profits warning. The inter-national producer, which relies heavily on sponsorship of its television programmes and sports

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    AND FINALLY ...

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Peter Good, Channel 4 head of enhanced TV, on what not to say in interviews for jobs in banks.

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    LEADER - Fair trading must rule the roost.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    One fact of life in the world of regulation is that industry responses to government proposals always seem to be more about the immediate competitive pressures that face individual organisations, rather

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MYCREATIVE MERGER.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Creative consultancy MyCreative, formerly known as Myriad, has merged with marketing consultancy the Big Group, writes Barbara Marshall. The team of seven has joined the Big Group's Holland Park office, while

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - PINNACLE POSTS LOSS.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Pinnacle Systems has reported a quarterly increase in net sales, gross margins, net income and cashflow compared with the previous quarter. However, despite a 26 per cent rise in sales to

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NDS SUBSCRIBERS UP.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The number of set-top boxes using NDS technology reached 27.3 million, up 1.6 million in the quarter ended 31 December 2001, according to NDS Group's latest results. Revenues for the period

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - SKARAMOOSH HIRING.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Skaramoosh has taken on senior compositor Zave Jackson from Tyrell, as well as former Refinery/Aldis Animation DS artist Aries Brooker.

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MPC to expand films.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The Moving Picture Company is to double the size of its feature film department with the creation of 50 new jobs, writes Barbara Marshall.

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    ENDEMOL'S INITIAL TO FILM TENOR WATSON.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Endemol UK production arm Initial is to film the open-air concert performed by British tenor Russell Watson on 6 February in New Zealand for PBS in the US and TVNZ in

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    POLITICAL ED FOR WALES.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    BBC Wales has appointed Ashok Ahir as managing editor political programmes. Ahir was formerly senior broadcast journalist on Wales Today. He has spent his entire career at BBC Wales, starting out

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    OFF THE RECORD - The dregs of fame.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    A German radio station seems to have been left with the dregs, so to speak, when it comes to self-promotion. According to the Daily Star, DJs from the Elins Live radio

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    Disney plans radio offensive.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Disney is stepping up its long-term ambition to enter the UK radio market and is understood to be poised to sign a joint-venture with Capital Radio to launch a Disney-branded digital radio station, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Digital target may be too low.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The government is coming under fresh pressure to rethink its strategy of turning off analogue television signals once 95 per cent of the viewing public have digital services.The National Consumer Council

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    SNOOPY RIGHTS DEAL.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Cartoon Network has secured rights to air The Charlie Brown Show and Peanuts for its classics service Boomerang, writes Simon Ellery. The channel has bought the 18 x 30-minute series of

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - OmniBus in deal with Time Warner.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    UK automation expert OmniBus Systems has launched the first phase of a $6m deal with Time Warner but admitted market difficulties have prompted the sale of part of the company to

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    EUROSPORT WINS TENNIS MASTERS CUP RIGHTS.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Eurosport has bolstered its tennis coverage after securing live and exclusive rights to the ATP Tennis Masters Cup until 2004. The agreement, which includes rights to an additional eight ATP tournaments,

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CORRECTION.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Tim Smith was incorrectly reported as joining Blue Post Production to head the Editbox department (Broadcast, 25.1.02). Smith joined the team which is managed by company director Jason Farrow.

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    UBC/UKRD CONTENT DEAL.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    UBC Media has signed a content deal with UKRD group to provide UKRD's 10 radio stations with entertainment news and business news bulletins from Bloomberg. UBC Media has also struck a

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    IN MY VIEW - Simon Shaps, managing director, Granada Content.

    2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

    On how rows over TV's dramatic treatment of Bloody Sunday missed an important point.