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BBC NAMES NETWORK X.
BBC Radio has announced the new digital station for black music fans is to be called 1Xtra. The station, which had the working title of Network X, will launch in July.
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Sharman steps up to fill key BBC daytime post.
The BBC has moved to fill its last major empty executive post by promoting creative director of daytime factual entertainment Alison Sharman to daytime controller, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC News triumph at RTS.
The BBC picked up the lion's share of the Royal Television Society (RTS) journalism awards last week taking six gongs. Channel 4 won three, BSkyB netted two and CNN picked up one, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC risk-taking must continue.
Poor old BBC. Just like the Royal Family, the corporation is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't.Confirmation that Prince Edward is to step down from his day-to-day role
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Turner awards major facility contract.
Snell & Wilcox has won a multimillion pound deal to equip the world's largest broadcast centre at Turner Entertainment Group's new Atlanta headquarters, writes Barbara Marshall.The 193,000 square foot facility, due
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ON THE BOX - The art of destruction.
ITV 2 head of programmes Daniela Neumann thought The Man Who Destroyed Everything laid solid foundations for new channel BBC 4.
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Regulators approve GVG sale to Thomson.
Thomson Multimedia has this week confirmed its purchase of the Grass Valley Group (GVG) and, through its Technicolor subsidiary, has added two more companies to its list of acquisitions.The $172m (#121m)
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Independence Day.
Now that the government is to allow production companies which are owned by foreign broadcasters to retain their independent status, will there be an influx of big hitters like Mediaset, Bertelsmann or Vivendi?
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Niche viewers slip through the net.
Even though Barb has at last got its new improved panel up and running, it is still not clear just how many people are watching low rating niche channels. Are we being asked to take too much on trust?
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Radio mics could be hit by analogue switch-off.
The Institute of Broadcast Sound (IBS) is pressing the government to consider the impact of analogue switch-off on the use of radio microphones, writes Barbara Marshall.At a seminar held on Wednesday
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FREE TO AIR - End is nigh for ITV Digital.
ITV Digital is the televisual Queen Mother. We all know it is going to go, we just can't quite pin a date on the unhappy event. Staff at Granada and Carlton
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DYKE SPEAKS AT AD LUNCH.
BBC director general Greg Dyke is to give the keynote speech at the Advertising Association's annual lunch on 20 May. The address, at the Savoy Hotel in London, will follow the
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TERRESTRIAL TV STRATEGIES - Getting in on the digital act.
Terrestrial TV's audience share has been gradually eroded by more than a decade of growth in multichannel alternatives. Ed Shelton reports on the terrestrials' latest attempts to face up to the threat.
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Pilot access stations on air.
The first three stations in the Radio Authority's access radio pilot scheme have begun broadcasting, with another 12 due to go on air later this year, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C5's Newman boosts indies with first slate.
Channel 5 controller of entertainment Andrew Newman is championing new indies with his first raft of commissions for the broadcaster since his arrival last year, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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C5 SHAREHOLDER LOSS.
Channel 5 shareholder United Business Media, which owns 35 per cent of the channel, posted a loss of #568m in its end-of-year results. Revenue fell from #1.05bn to #930.5m.
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TELETEXT POISED TO WIN CHANNEL 5 CONTRACT.
Teletext is planning to expand its availability beyond ITV, Channel 4 and its portfolio of branded digital services by providing a text service for Channel 5. It has emerged as the
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PROFITS PLUMMET AT CHANNEL 5 OWNER RTL.
Channel 5 owner RTL Group saw its core earnings plunge 35 per cent last year, giving it an overall loss of #1.52bn. Considerable asset write-downs and the continuing advertising slump meant
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422 BOOSTS ANIMATION.
422 has taken on Gary Noden who is heading north from London's Eye Animation to become senior 3D animator at 422's Manchester site. Noden's credits include idents for Cartoon Network, Fox
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BBC and C4 'should lose free spectrum'.
The BBC and Channel 4 face having to pay 'tens of millions of pounds' to continue broadcasting, as part of a government drive to improve the efficiency of UK digital and