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PREMIERSHIP TO HIT PRIMETIME
ITV is set to screen its main premiership football highlights programme in an early evening slot, hauling it out of the BBC's late evening tradition, writes Steve Aston.
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LEADER - The hidden risk of playing safe
As BBC 1 this week launches a fourth weekly episode of EastEnders (as first revealed by Broadcast in January last year), it's time to reflect on the state of the terrestrial
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TOP GEAR UNDER REVIEW
BBC 2 motoring strand Top Gear is to be 'reviewed' when its current series ends in October, although it will not be axed, the corporation has said. The programme, fronted by
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PEAK FLY-BY TO GO ON THE WEB
British explorer David Hempleman-Adams' attempt to fly over Mount Everest in a hot air balloon is to be webcast live by broadband service BT Openworld next month, writes David Wood. The
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WEB RADIO STATION FLOPS
Internet radio station Net FM has closed just four months from launch after financial backers pulled the plug on second-round funding. The station, launched by former Talk Radio programmer Richard Jacobs
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INTERVIEW - Survival of the fittest
'The policy of an organisation is not the stuff that sexy TV is made of. Our agenda is not to empower people but to get ratings up'.
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TRADE TALK - Saturday fights
The Saturday Show producer Annette Williams is set to 'custard pie' ITV viewer magnets Ant and Dec with CBBC's new offering.
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TELEWEST EARNINGS UP
Telewest Communications has returned record quarterly earnings of£74m before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Content division Flextech returned revenues of£95m for the six months to 30 June, up 13
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DISNEY PROFITS DOWN
The Walt Disney Company has reported a 3 per cent drop in quarterly profits to $479m (£338m) on sales of $6bn (£4.2bn). The company instigated 4,000 job cuts globally in March.
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Discovery trawls net
US Broadcaster Discovery Communications has turned to a TV commissioning website to ask UK indies for ideas for its Discovery Health channel, writes David Wood.
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West Midlands first in digital TV project
The West Midlands has been chosen for the government's first 'digital neighbourhood' project, it was announced this week, writes Steve Aston.
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TOSHIBA SIGNS UP DGP
DGP has become the only UK facility with access to the Toshiba DVD encoding and authoring system after it reached an agreement to become the sole UK sub-licensee of California Video
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Flextech in Icebox deal
Flextech Television has struck a multimillion pound deal with US animator Icebox for a series of animated shorts as well as a number of new co-productions, writes Simon Ellery.
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STATIC GAINS CRUZ
Static Design, the broadcast design wing of visual media company Static 2358, has poached senior broadcast designer Luiza dos Santos Cruz from Deepend. Cruz's new role will focus on bridging the
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TX - The history of crime
Makers of historical documentaries probably don't expect to find themselves amid a hail of bullets in Brazil or in a helicopter that Texan prison officers are threatening to shoot down, but
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DBC funds gap forces closure
Digital Broadcasting Company (DBC), owner of film and sport pay-per-view outfit u>direct, has gone into liquidation after shareholders withdrew funding, writes Simon Ellery.
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NTL CLAIMS A MILLION
NTL said this week it had signed up 1 million digital TV customers and was on track to hit its target of 1.2 million by the end of the year. The
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INDIE FINANCE - Cottage industry to City slickers
Despite the best efforts of indies to shed their cottage industry roots and raise capital from the City, a report by business advisory group Grant Thornton argues that they are hampered by confused accounting.
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Reality series give children lessons in life
Producers should take great care when making reality TV, because programmes in the genre have been found to have a major influence over how young people relate to each other, writes Simon Ellery.
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CHELSEA GOES INTO TV
Chelsea Football Club is to follow its bigger rival, Manchester United, by launching a television channel on Monday (13 August). The club has hired London-based production outfit Input Productions to handle