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    Forever director to take helm at Century FM

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Capital radio has confirmed the appointment of Forever Broadcasting group programme director Giles Squire as brand programme director for its Century FM Network, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Capital leads in ratings

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Capital 95.8 FM has regained its lead over Kiss 100 in London's crucial 15 to 24 demographic, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    NCC CONSUMER CALL

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The National Consumer Council has called for a body independent of Ofcom to handle consumer representation in communications issues. Its latest report Plugging in the Panel calls for a well-resourced body

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    INTERVIEW: MARK BYFORD - Spreading the word

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    As the BBC's World Service achieves new audience heights, plans to consolidate its success by rolling out a greater FM presence and exploiting the opportunities the internet affords are taking shape.

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    Ealing Studios hosts BT Wireless facility

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    BT Wireless has opened a multimedia digital facility at Ealing Studios to help developers produce content for mobile phone services, writes Jon Rogers.

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    ON THE BOX - Neighbours from hell

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Jason Thorp, director of programming at Universal Studios Networks, liked Take Me but wished he'd looked away from Crimes on Tape.

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    X-MEN SERIES BOUGHT BY CARTOON NETWORK

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Cartoon Network UK has bought the latest 26 x 30-minute series of X-Men from Warner Bros. The series takes a new look at the characters as they 'learn to control their

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    Granada poaches Carlton boss

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Carlton Communications commercial director Tom Betts has been poached by ITV partner Granada to strengthen its business development department, writes Simon Ellery.

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    World Service wants One BBC

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    BBC World Service director Mark Byford wants to increase co-operation between the Foreign Office-funded unit and the licence fee-funded BBC and raise the profile of the radio network within the UK, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC plans temp chair

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Gavyn Davies may have to step in as a BBC caretaker chairman while media secretary Tessa Jowell delays making a permanent appointment to consult the new Tory leader, writes David Rose.

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    Horizons raids BBC for editor

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    UKTV has poached BBC 2 head of scheduling and planning Liam Keelan to become editor of its factual channel, UK Horizons, writes Simon Ellery.

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    BBC still leads in daytime

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    ITV is still losing the battle for daytime viewers to the BBC, writes Steve Aston.

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    BBC staff urged to shun review

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The National Union of Journalists and Bectu have called on BBC staff to boycott their annual appraisal interviews as part of the continuing dispute over the corporation's pay and reward structure, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC PLANS LONDON BASE

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has unveiled plans for the£400m redevelopment of Broadcasting House as the new home of network radio, news and the World Service. The proposals include erecting a new building

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    Off the Record - Avid sales on

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Avid Technology, purveyor of fine edit systems and graphics stations, has been on the sales war path again in Cliff Richard-stylee with a bright red double-decker demo bus. Rather than being,

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    Fast native editor arrives

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    German software company Fast Multimedia is to debut its native digital editor Blue at IBC in September, more than four years after the product was first announced, writes Dominic Timms.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Big fish and small fry

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Not all independent television production companies are the same size, nor do they have the same ambitions, but how can the rise of the so-called super-indies help bolster the competitive position of their smaller brethren?

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    GO RACING ALTERS LOOK

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Horseracing consortium Go Racing, comprising BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, has unveiled its new company name and logo as At The Races - the former name was unavailable as a

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    Pact allays quota fears

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Producers' Alliance Pact this week moved to reassure indies that feared the BBC's independent production quota was at stake by insisting that keeping the quota was still a core plank of

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    TalkSport set to air opt-outs

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Authority has given national speech radio station TalkSport permission to air separate opt-outs in Scotland and Northern Ireland for three hours a day, writes Leigh Holmwood.