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STOLEN KIT WEBSITE.
Cheff, the trade body set up by UK facilities' chief engineers, has set up a webpage with details of stolen equipment to help recover and prevent the resale of the kit.
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POINT OF VIEW ON WEATHER AND ISLAND LIFE.
New indie Point of View (POV) has received its first commissions, securing an order from Carlton Westcountry for series on weather forecasting and life on the Isles of Scilly. POV's husband
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TV politics 'must infotain'.
Broadcasters should not shy away from dumbing down political programmes and experimenting with 'tabloid formats' to bring in new audiences to the genre, according to a major report published this week.The
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London home for Warner UK.
Warner Bros has pooled all its UK media operations into a new London-based office and put former European managing director Josh Berger in charge, writes Simon Ellery.
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Juniper sets up science and history subsidiary.
Juniper Communications is setting up a new science and history division in Cambridge, in a bid to tap into the city's academic resources, writes Penny Hughes.
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UKTV new media head leaves for start-up.
UKTV head of new media Neil Morris has quit the BBC Flextech joint-venture to set up his own broadband and interactive TV consultancy MomoMedia, writes David Wood.
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Ginger to revive Lads.
Ginger Productions has scored its first commission for ITV 1 with a remake of classic sitcom The Likely Lads, which is set to star kids presenters Ant and Dec, writes Steve Aston.
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IN MY VIEW - Ray Fitzwalter.
On how making under-fives' programming ad free could be good for commercial TV.
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Ex-BBC staffer urges reform.
COLIN SHAW, a former BBC secretary and director of the Broadcasting Standards Council, has added his weight to the call for reform of the BBC board of governors, suggesting governors should
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Just TV theme evenings for UK Horizons.
UK Horizons channel editor Liam Keelan has ordered a brace of hour-long programmes from Just TV to anchor two upcoming theme nights, writes Simon Ellery.
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GALAXY HEAD TO EMAP.
Former Galaxy Network group head of music Christian Smith has joined Emap Performance as Kiss 100 music co-ordinator. His appointment follows the promotion of Kiss programme director Andy Roberts to the
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INT ED FOR ITV NEWS.
ITN has appointed Bill Neely as international editor for ITV News. Neely's main responsibility will be to oversee the tone of the network's international stories.
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LNN FACTUALS STUDIES SEX AND DRUGS FOR LWT.
LNN Factuals has scored a raft of commissions for the London regions and the US. The 6 x 30-minute history series Sin City, will look at how vices such as sex
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SKY DOUBLES SCREENS.
Sky News Active is doubling the number of enhanced content screens on offer from four to eight as part of a wider move to improve its interactive offering. On top of
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OPINION - Dominating the digital domain.
The new BBC digital channels are about competition not public service and will reduce choice rather than expand it, argues John Hambley of digital channel Artsworld.
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DEVILISHLY STRANGE.
Molinare's drama dubbing team were responsible for building the supernatural audio atmosphere of Strange, a murder mystery with a devilish twist, produced by BBC entertainment with Big Bear films for BBC 1, writes Barbara Marshall.
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SIMPSONS DECISION.
As Broadcast went to press Channel 4 and Channel 5 were expected to learn who had secured terrestrial rights to US cartoon The Simpsons from 2006. Current rights holder BBC 2,
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Oneword wins US digital deal.
National digital radio channel Oneword is expected to pocket an extra #625,000 this year after signing a ground-breaking deal to become the first UK commercial audio service to be broadcast across the whole of the US, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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NOTHING REAL DEAL.
US visual effects software firm Nothing Real has been bought by Apple. Details of the deal were unavailable as Broadcast went to press but in a statement Apple said it 'plans
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RORY PECK DATE SET.
The Rory Peck Trust has set the date for this year's Rory Peck Awards which celebrate the work of freelance camera operators in TV news and current affairs. The event will