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    Softel steps in to rescue Aston

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    UK manufacturer of video character generators Aston Electronic Designs has been saved from liquidation by Reading-based subtitling and interactive TV specialist Softel.Aston was put into administrative receivership last Monday (5 November)

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    EMAP RADIO ARM LOSSES

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Emap Performance, part of the company that publishes Broadcast, has posted a 12 per cent drop in operating profits in the first half of this year. According to interim results, its

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    ROGER GRAEF TAKES ANOTHER LOOK AT THE POLICE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC creative director of investigations Alex Holmes has commissioned a two-hour special on how the police have changed over the past two years from Films of Record. Police: Where Have all

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    MESH PICKS NEW DIGITAL ANIMATION DIRECTORS

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has picked eight digital animators to take part in this year's Mesh new talent scheme, writes Penny Hughes.

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    BRIGHTER GIVEN ANIMATED MOBSTERS ORDER

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Brighter Pictures has received a joint commission from Buena Vista International (BVI) UK and CITV to produce a 30-minute documentary looking at how the animated film Monsters, Inc was made. Commissioned

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - A shrinking asset

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the strong showing ITV kids series made at last month's Baftas and the high-earning distribution potential of the genre, CITV's future looks far from rosy as further cuts are expected in the department.

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    WORLD SERVICE GOES DIGITAL IN NORTH AMERICA

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC World Service North America business development manager Brian Jarman has signed a deal with US-based XM Satellite Radio network to enable the World Service to air as a digital radio

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    AL-JAZEERA TO LAUNCH ENGLISH SERVICE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV station, is to begin broadcasting an English version next year. The TV station broadcasts in Arabic to around 15 million viewers across the Middle East and central

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    HERALD TRIBUNE BULLETINS TO AIR ON EURONEWS

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    ITN-owned European news channel Euronews has signed a deal with Fact Based Communications (FBC) for pan-European carriage of a new weekly eight-minute programme Economia Review, the business news magazine programme of

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    FREE TO AIR - Strike: force for good?

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    It looks as though The Premiership has moved just in time. As the likes of Ryan Giggs and Paolo di Canio get out their fingerless gloves and fire up the braziers

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    Women forging ahead in radio

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The number of women working in the radio industry has more than doubled in the past eight years with more women now working in the sector than men, according to a

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    ITV gets pulses racing again on Sunday night

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Heartbeat got the blood pumping through ITV's veins this week, reinvigorating the network which put its drama crown jewels on display once more. Sunday night fell under the enduring spell of

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    GRANADA STARTS ON THIRD A&E SERIES

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Granada has started production on the third series of medical drama A&E. Filming on the 8 x 30-minute series, produced by Richard Brooke and executive produced by Hugh Warren, will continue

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    C5'S BRITNEY XMAS SPECIAL

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 has lined up a one-off profile on teen pop sensation Britney Spears from Carlton which will include an exclusive interview with her personal assistant, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    C5'S MOST EVIL MEN AND WOMEN TO RETURN

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Uden Associates has been commissioned by Channel 5 senior programme controller news and current affairs Chris Shaw to produce a second series of the Most Evil Men and Women in History.

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    422 rejig sees five staff axed

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    422 has restructured and consolidated its operations in central Manchester, resulting in five job losses, writes Jon Rogers.

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    Editor chosen for BBC 4 nightly news

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has appointed Amanda Farnsworth as editor of its new BBC 4 nightly news programme, in preparation for a March launch of the highbrow arts channel, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    C4 minorities database gets mixed reaction

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's online diversity database, set up to provide details of TV professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds to C4 suppliers, launched this week amid mixed reactions from the industry, writes Penny Hughes.

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    C4 does French documentary deal

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 and French producer Gedeon Programmes have signed a two-year output deal, which will lead to the production of six documentary films, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Ad slump forces C4 to cut back its staff

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4's interactive department will bear the brunt of around 80 job losses announced by the channel last week in response to the downturn in TV ad revenues.C4 Interactive, which produces