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    FIVE LIVE NEWS HIRES

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    New BBC Radio Five Live head of news Ceri Thomas has made a clutch of appointments across the station's daily news strands. Simon Mayo editor Sali Collins is to become editor

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    AND FINALLY...

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Lisa Prime, children's awards officer at Bafta, wishes the Banana Splits would come backWhat do you sing in the shower?Show tunes and anything from GreaseWhen were you happiest?Sipping a beer in

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    TV LICENCE FEE TO RISE

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The television licence fee is to go up by£3 to£112 from April under the funding formula drawn up by the BBC and the government to pay for the corporation's

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    Zenith plans factual revival

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Zenith Entertainment is looking to revive its mainstream factual output with the appointment of former Right to Reply series editor Ed Braman as executive producer, network factual programmes, writes Steve Aston.

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    RTS FILM-MAKING EVENT

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Veteran Northern Irish TV producers Paul Greengrass and Peter Taylor are to discuss their contrasting approaches to filmmaking at a Royal Television Society session on 10 December. Chaired by factual producer

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    VIENNA EUROPEAN RADIO FORUM POSTPONED

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has called off its planned European radio forum next June. The conference, The Voice of European Radio in the 21st Century, was due to be held

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    Energis scoops pension project

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Energis Interactive, the digital TV firm owned by telecoms giant Energis and software developer Graham Technology, has been selected by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to develop a£1.6m

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    Einstein goes into space

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Einstein Entertainment has sealed a deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a series on astronauts, writes Simon Ellery.

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    VOD EASTENDERS IN US

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    BBC America is launching an EastEnders video-on-demand service for digital cable subscribers in the US. The soap currently airs two weeks behind the UK but the new service will enable viewers

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    iTV must be easier to use, says Hodgson

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Interactive TV is more difficult to use than a PC and only slightly easier than flying an aeroplane, riding a motorbike or using a sewing machine, according to research commissioned by the Independent Television Commission (ITC), writes Lucy Rouse.

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    Dyke Towers

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The occasional diary of a BBC Director General.

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    DISTRIBUTORS SEMINAR

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    BBC Worldwide director of international TV Mike Phillips is to head a British Television Distributors Association seminar on TV distribution to be held on 4 December at Channel 4's Horseferry Road

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    UK distributors pull out of Natpe

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Two of the UK's biggest broadcasters have been forced to pull out of next year's Natpe programme market in Las Vegas due to the high cost of attending the annual event.Both

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    NEW ITV DIGITAL GAME

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    ITV Digital has launched a play along interactive game where viewers predict key events during live football games, such as the time of first goal. Called Predictor, the service launched on

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    NOW DIGITAL WINS PETERBOROUGH LICENCE

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Authority has awarded Now Digital the local digital multiplex licence for Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Now Digital, wholly owned by GWR, is proposing seven commercial services and has reserved capacity

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    DIGITAL PIRACY - Sinking digital's pirates

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    As struggling operator ITV Digital issues a stern warning to subscribers about the use of fake smartcards to access premium services, debate rages in the industry on how best to outflank the digital pirates.

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    LOCAL TV IN DIFFICULTIES

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Local Broadcasting Group (LBG), the UK's largest holder of local terrestrial TV licences, has gone into administration. LBG, which was set up a year ago by broadcast equipment hire company VFG,

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    Multicultural deputy named

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has appointed BBC producer Sam Bickley to the post of deputy commissioning editor, multicultural, writes Penny Hughes.

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    News review delayed

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The Government has again delayed its planned review of BBC News 24 after deciding to use the current war on terrorism as a barometer for the channel's performance, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    LEADER - We need to define Ofcom's role

    2001-11-30T00:00:00Z

    With the government's proposals on the future of cross-media ownership now out in the open (options: status quo; competition rules only to apply; different playing fields for different media; a more