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    Beasts crawl to top Peak

    2001-11-16T11:57:00Z

    BBC1's Walking With Beasts towers over ITV1's Peak Practice but debut of the latest Dinosaurs' production falls short of the original's ratings triumph

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    Murdoch in talks with Malone over Kirch PayTV stake

    2001-11-16T11:05:00Z

    BSkyB looks to Liberty Media for way out of German pay-TV market as worries over Kirch's inability to raise cash to buy back 22% stake continue

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    Andrew urges Carlton and Granada to merge kids

    2001-11-16T10:19:00Z

    Granada Kids director of programmes urges ITV partners to 'stop thinking about smaller goals and look at the big picture'

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    TX - A walk on the wild side

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Sixteen million years after dinosaurs became extinct, a strange collection of beasts roamed the earth. It was a time when whales were still on land and giant birds preyed on miniature

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    UPC SUSPENDS SHARES

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Shares in the pan-European cable company UPC were suspended this week as it emerged that the debt-laden outfit has had a negative value since September. The suspension followed UPC's latest third-quarter

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    PINNACLE RESELLER

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Pinnacle Systems has appointed Altered Images as reseller of its broadcast products. Two Deko-Cast demonstration units have been installed at Altered Images' Soho site and the company has already made a

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    PFA VOTES FOR STRIKE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Members of the Professional Footballers Association (PFA) have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action that could lead to them boycotting televised games. Over 99 per cent of PFA members voted for action,

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    MULTICHANNEL SPURNED

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Only 5.8 per cent of terrestrial TV homes are planning to acquire multichannel TV, according to a study conducted into digital television by Continental Research. The figure gives a potential market

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    Ratings - Uncle Silas' victory over The Way We Live Now

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    ITV 1 easily got the better of BBC 1 in the head-to-head battle of literary adaptations this week, writes Jon Rogers.

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    LNR SWAPS WITH LBC

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    London News Radio station ITN News Direct is to switch its service from FM to AM. The station will switch frequencies with LBC 1152. The move is being made to boost

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    New low for ITV peaktime

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    ITV'S peaktime audience has hit an all-time low, according to the Institute of Practitioners of Advertising's latest Trends in Television report, writes Steve Aston.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Sky has Harry under its spell

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    'Harry Potty About Sky Movies Active' is the headline BSkyB bosses must have craved. And they got it, but Off The Record refuses to let them off so lightly. During an

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    RIALTO MAKES HALLMARK VAMPIRE SALE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Wark Clements head of children's and youth Richard Langridge has sold the rights to The Last Vampire to Hallmark Channel in the US through Rialto, the company he launched earlier this

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    RTL GROUP TECH HEAD

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    RTL Group has promoted Alain Flammang to replace outgoing technical division chief executive Mike Southgate. Flammang was head of the Cologne Broadcasting Centre (CBC), one of the four RTL technical service

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    ITC gives nod to regional plans

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Independent Television Commission (ITC) chief executive Patricia Hodgson has given her tacit approval to the rationalisation of ITV's regional output after suggesting that the key test for regionality is quality and

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    FOREVER LOSSES UP

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Forever Broadcasting, the independent Aim-listed radio group, has reported worsening operating losses and has warned that investment in digital radio multiplexes was unlikely to bring financial rewards 'for many years'. The

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    WIRELESS GROUP KEEPS STOCKPORT FM LICENCE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Authority has reawarded the local radio licence in Stockport to The Wireless Group for a further eight years. The extension of the new licence, for Imagine FM, runs from

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    FLEXTECH RESHUFFLE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Flextech director of programmes Lisa Opie has been promoted to executive vice-president of Flextech channels, adding marketing to her existing programming responsibilities for the group. Flextech managing director of broadcast and

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    UK STYLE ORDERS WATER FEATURE SERIES

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    UK Style commissioning editor Chantal Rutherford Brown has commissioned Plymouth-based indie Two Four Productions to produce a 15 x 30-minute series on garden water features. Water Gardens will feature presenter and

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    WORK EXPERIENCE - Invisible workers

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Work experience might seem like the best way of getting a foot in the door of the audiovisual sector but in return for their free labour are volunteers really gaining the skills they need to get on? Nishita Sharma reports.