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NTL pulls Eurosport off air in Ireland
Breakdown of digital carriage talks sees channel go off air midway through African Cup of Nations match
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RA's Hooper calls for new cross-media ownership rule
Radio body's chairman campaigns for legislation allowing a national newspaper to own a national terrestrial TV channel
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OmniBus in deal with Time Warner
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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MPC to expand films
The Moving Picture Company is to double the size of its feature film department with the creation of 50 new jobs, writes Barbara Marshall.The high-end facility took on an extra 5,000
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BBC Broadcast division aims for£100m
Pam Masters, managing director of the BBC's latest commercial division BBC Broadcast, has unveiled plans for the venture's new broadcast centre which could deliver around£100m to the BBC, writes Barbara Marshall
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Exposure acquires 8811 assets
Editing outfit Exposure has paid£250,000 for the assets of duplication facility 8811 which went into liquidation last November (Broadcast, 23.11.01), writes Barbara Marshall.The deal forms the bulk of a£400,000
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MyCreative Merger
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 MyCreative
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BT wins games deal
The BBC has awarded BT Broadcast Services the£1m transmission contract for the XVII Commonwealth Games, to be held in Manchester this summer. As the host broadcaster, the BBC is responsible
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Pinnacle posts loss
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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NDS subscribers up
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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Soundman to CFS
CFS has taken on Ian Marriot-Smith as senior sound engineer to head the Soho sound department. He joined from Canongate Studios in Edinburgh where he was post-production sound engineer and studio
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Creative rejoins 422
Designer Graham Watts has rejoined 422 as creative director after four years, most recently spent with Skaramoosh. Based in Bristol, Watts will lead 422's work on major UK factual TV and
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Tiger Aspect brings Bodily Harm to C4
First original C4 piece from writer of Births, Marriages and Deaths to star Timothy Spall, George Cole, Annette Crosbie and Lesley Manville
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BBC creates key position for Birmingham factual
New role will act as figurehead and oversee Asian, gardening and motoring-based lifestyle programming
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C5 public service pledge
C5 controller of factual Dan Chambers promises huge increase in arts, science and history programming
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Thompson does about face on BBC 3
Incoming chief executive sanctions Channel 4 attack on proposed digital youth channel
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ITV head calls BBC arts 'pathetic'
Chairman Leslie Hill slams corporation's 'pathetic' approach to the genre
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Disney plans radio offensive
Media giant in final stages of talks with Capital Radio which would see Capital's digital service The Cube relaunch as Radio Disney
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Pact and C4 join row over indies' status
DCMS lobbied to abolish rule that says UK production companies owned by foreign broadcasters must lose their indie status
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Brass Eye wins best comedy at Broadcast Awards
Controversial comedy show which attracted a record number of complaints is named best of its genre for last year as RDF Media walks off with four awards including best indie