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LE DREAM GETS NEW SLOT.
Channel 4 has rescheduled Tiger Aspect Productions' daytime factual series Le Dream to run in peaktime in July. The 8 x 30-minute series that investigates buying and renovating houses in rural
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Dyke hopes to revive news unit.
THE BBC could soon resurrect a planned special news investigations unit, which was put on hold following the spiralling cost of covering the war in Afghanistan, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Off the record - Old family tie.
OTR was heartened to see media secretary Tessa Jowell speaking at the first in a series of planned talks by leading figures organised by The Media Centre at the end of
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Fast Studio kit gets rebrand.
Californian video equipment manufacturer Pinnacle Systems is to change the name of the Fast Studio colour line of editing products next week at NAB, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Indie Finance - Who wants to be a one-hit wonder?
Think Celador and automatically the recent global success of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire? format springs to mind but during its 18-year history the independent has added many other strings to its bow. Meg Carter Reports.
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IRN under fire for obit gaffe.
As criticism over the BBC's coverage of the Queen Mother's death raged this week, national radio news provider IRN was forced to apologise for failing to notify its 260 customers of the death because someone 'pressed the wrong button', writes Georgina Lip
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TV RECESSION - First green shoots?
Spring is in the air and there are signs of an advertising recovery. But have commercial TV and radio come through the worst?
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SPIN-DOCTORING FOCUS.
Broadcasters and politicians will be brought together to look at the art of spin-doctoring at a special lunch hosted by The Media Society. The event, called 'The dog and the lampost
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MEDIAARC GOES RACING.
BBC MediaArc has unveiled a series of idents for what it claimed is the world's first fully computer-generated TV channel, I-Race, writes Simon Ellery.
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TV HEAT NEEDS SLOT.
Emap, publisher of Broadcast, and Monkey have opened discussions with Channel 5 and Sky to produce a TV version of celebrity magazine Heat after Channel 4 turned down the Monkey-produced pilot.
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PEPPER HIRES HIT MAN.
Pepper has appointed Iain Cameron to the new role of head of quality control (QC) as part of a push to expand the QC service for producers. Cameron joins from Hit
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HOLMES STAYS ON.
GMTV has signed presenter Eamonn Holmes for another three years, scotching suggestions that he was planning to leave to work for the BBC. Holmes has presented GMTV since 1993.
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Liberate sets up interactive lab.
Interactive television software developer Liberate Technologies has launched a development lab to help boost the development of interactive TV applications, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Off the record - Theroux with monkey jokes.
UK Horizons is rightly proud of its forthcoming weekend with Louis Theroux - as an avid fan, Off the Record expects great things of the programming stunt. Shame then that Horizons'
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KISS TAKES ON SO SOLID.
Controversial garage collective So Solid Crew are to host their own Friday night show on Emap-owned radio station Kiss 100. The group, which has recently seen one of its members imprisoned
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Senior loss at September.
September films has been dealt a blow following long-standing head of factual entertainment Elaine Gallagher's decision to quit, writes Simon Ellery.
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MERIDIAN/LWT REJIG.
LWT managing director Lindsay Charlton has been moved to the same post at Meridian following Mary MacAnally's decision to quit after six years. Charlton will be replaced at LWT, one of
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VIRGIN RADIO RAPPED.
Virgin Radio has been rapped once again by regulators over its late-night show with DJ Jon Holmes. Viewers complained to the Broadcasting Standards Commission after Holmes made a spoof phone call
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Rockface ups audience but cannot challenge ITV 1's live football
BBC 1 drama gains 1 million viewers but the knockout stages of the Champions League proves the bigger draw
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BBC 1 recommissions Open Mike series
Open Mike Productions has received two recommissions from BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey.Friday Night with Jonathan Ross has been extended to 20 x 40-minutes with eight shows set to air