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    Manx TV to launch in Isle of Man

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Media outfit Prime Ent is launching the first 'national' TV station for the Isle of Man, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    TRADE TALK - Lifestyle's guru

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    What will Grant Mansfield, docusoap and peaktime lifestyle show pioneer, make of drama now it falls within his remit after the shake-up at Granada?

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    Support grows for journalists in war zones

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A further nine news organisations from around the world have signed up to the guidelines established last year to protect journalists working in war zones, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    Jowell summoned to give media plans

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Media secretary Tessa Jowell is to be summoned before the Commons media select committee to spell out her plans for broadcasting as soon as the summer recess is over.The move follows

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    Indies to get US sales help

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    US producers' association and market organiser Natpe has lined up a special session on how to sell to the US as part of its first ever 'Natpe day' at this year's Prix Italia festival, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    STINK FORMS SKUNK

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Production company Stink's newly formed animation arm Skunk has signed up US animator and director Michael Overbeck. The deal covers commercials and music videos. Despite having only graduated in June last

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    OFF THE RECORD - iTV wins more fans

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Following Emily Bell's conversion to iTV in these pages some weeks ago, OTR is happy to see the technology is being embraced just as warmly by Jo Public. Seven-month pregnant Victoria

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    MILOSEVIC ENTERS DOC

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Indie Antelope has been commissioned to produce an in-depth profile of former Serbian president Milosevic for BBC 2's Storyville strand, writes Katy Elliott.

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    Diverse rejigs top posts

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Diverse Production has reshuffled its senior management and changed its name to Diverse Ltd, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Sky revels in digital surge

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB has added almost 1 million new subscribers to its Sky Digital service over the last financial year but has accrued huge losses in the process, writes Steve Aston.

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    GAGNE DIES IN PARIS

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Former Discreet client relations manager Julie Gagne died this month after being involved in a car crash in Paris. The accident happened as she was travelling in a taxi which was

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    Video Diary - Notes from the front line

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A humble DigiBeta tape which had been gathering dust on a Soho shelf before being picked up by a runner and thrust into a production, has agreed to share a literary account of a day in the life of its travails with Broadcast readers.

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    SES NAMES NEW DG

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Astra satellite operator SES has named SES director general Romain Bausche as president and chief executive of the newly formed global entity SES Global, which is based in Luxembourg. SES Global

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    DIGITAL DEGREE LAUNCH

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Ravensbourne College has launched a foundation degree in creative digital broadcast technology. The two-year, work-based foundation degree is equivalent to an HND or NVQ level four. Broadcasters Carlton TV, Granada, Pearson

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    Indie gains US MTV deal

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Pacific Productions has bagged a rare commission from MTV in the US for new reality show Kidnapped, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Tele-Cine signs deal with Gobarkingmad

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    Charlotte Street facility house Tele-Cine has secured a long-term contract to provide transmission services for Gobarkingmad - the live, 24-hour interactive greyhound racing channel, writes Will Strauss.The company will provide a

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    Ratings - ITV kids special leaves dinosaurs for dead

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    A children's special of Stars in their Eyes sparkled for ITV despite being scheduled against Spielberg's Jurassic Park on BBC 1, writes Jon Rogers.

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    DCMS SKIPS REVIEW

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The Department for Culture, Media & Sport has said it will not be conducting a review of BBC 1's news move from 21.00 to 22.00. A DCMS spokeswoman told Broadcast that

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    Frost's religion series damned

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    The National Secular Society, which counts journalist Polly Toynbee and broadcaster Jonathan Meades among its associates, has attacked a forthcoming ITV religious series featuring Sir David Frost, claiming the show is biased towards Christianity, writes S

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    Dyke defers factual cuts till September

    2001-07-27T00:00:00Z

    BBC director general Greg Dyke is understood to have postponed a series of redundancies in the corporation's factual and learning department in a bid to avoid negative publicity while the Department for Culture, Media & Sport is considering whether to gre