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Granada completes Border buy
Granada has added to its ITV empire by completing its purchase of Border TV for£50.5m, writes Steve Aston.
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LNN boosts factual programming
LNN Factuals Network has secured a host of new programmes for the London region. LWT has commissioned three factual series including 16 x 30-minute travel series Dream Ticket, 30-minute magazine show
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My TV launch boast
My TV Network, the restricted service licence TV licensee based in Portsmouth, claimed this week to have secured£59,800 from advertising and sponsorship since its launch at the beginning of June.
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Bids in place for ITV news
The Challenger for the lucrative ITV news contract, Channel 3 News, is understood to have undercut the price of current supplier ITN's contract by several million in its tender document submitted to the network this week, writes Simon Ellery.
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'Super indies' push for reduction in BBC quota
A number of 'super indies' are lobbying members of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to reduce the BBC's statutory indie quota in return for releasing more rights.On 18
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BBC kids' production split
The BBC's replacement for axed Saturday morning kids show Live & Kicking will be produced in both Scotland and London, although the look of the programme will stay the same, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC wins rugby role
The BBC has beaten off competition from three unnamed independent production companies to produce S4C's rugby coverage for the next two years. The contract, which comes into effect immediately, covers live
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CRCA ops director leaves for BBC new media
Commercial Radio Companies Association operations director Rachell Fox has quit the organisation to join BBC new media. The radio body has appointed Alison Winter as research and communications manager. Winter was
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Fashion returns to BBC
The BBC is to venture back into fashion television with a new series featuring 'real people and their wardrobes', three years after flagship strand The Clothes Show was axed, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC Radio digital move
BBC Radio and Music is to implement a digital play-out system from the German company VCS to handle both programme production and transmission on a number of its radio channels. The
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Bazalgette to give RTS memorial lecture
Endemol Entertainment UK creative director Peter Bazalgette has been confirmed as the speaker for this year's Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture. The lecture, entitled 'Big Brother and Beyond', will
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Older viewers turn away from multichannel
Viewers over the age of 65 - the heaviest consumers of television - are watching less multichannel TV than they were five years ago, writes Katy Elliott.
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Avid's VP Davies quits post early
Avid Technology international vice-president Peter Davies has resigned from the US technology firm just months before he was due to officially retire.Davies, who has spent the past nine years at Avid,
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Autodesk results
Autodesk's revenue for 2000 was up by more than $50m (£35m) on the previous year and not down as was erroneously stated in Broadcast last week.
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Mercury buys ITV series with aussie firm
Australian wildlife independent Storyteller Productions and fledgling London-based producer/distributor Mercury Media this week signed their first sales deal with ITV for the daytime series Animal Allies. The 13 x 30-minute series
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ITV orders modern fairytale animation
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered two children's specials from animated studios Collingwood O'Hare Entertainment. The King's Beard is a 75-minute modern fairytale based on an original
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News analysis - Boxed into a corner
Not for the first time BSkyB's business affairs are being scrutinised by regulators - the Office of Fair Trading and the European Commssion are both currrently poring over facts and figures. So, will the watchdogs bite?
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Aldis becomes Refinery and moots change
Soho animation facility Aldis Animation has changed its name to Refinery, writes Will Strauss.
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Back to floor for Airey
Channel 5 chief executive Dawn Airey and BBC director of drama, entertainment and children's Alan Yentob are set to relive their industry salad days as part of a 'back to the
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Bazalgette rails against the might of BBC Online
One of the BBC's key programme suppliers is refusing to submit proposals to the corporation if they have a major new media element attached, despite calls for all pitches to carry 'thought through' interactive elements, writes Katy Elliott.