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BUYING A DIGITAL TV - Are you being served?
The predicted date for analogue switch-off in the UK is creeping up. Broadcast goes undercover in London to gauge whether sales staff in high street stores on the front line of the digital revolution are armed with enough information to interpret jargon f
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Beat boss moves on
Beat 106 programme controller Andrew Jeffries has left the station to become programme director of Galaxy 105, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC returns US chief
BBC Worldwide Americas chief executive Peter Phippen is returning to the UK to head the company's publishing division, writes Katy Elliott.
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BBC LOCAL TALENT DRIVE
The BBC has launched a new scheme based in the nations to find nine young people to help develop the next generation of entertainment programming. The initiative, which will be based
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BBC SIGNS NTL DEAL
The BBC has signed a digital carriage deal with NTL to allow subscribers to access its interactive services for the first time. The agreement will give viewers access to the BBC's
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BBC orders Hat Trick sitcom
Hat Trick Productions has been commissioned to produce a comedy 'mini-soap' for BBC 1 from the writer of Drop the Dead Donkey, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC TACKLES WEATHER
The man behind Walking With Dinosaurs, BBC science creative director John Lynch is to executive produce Weather, a landmark series, writes Barbara Marshall. Scheduled for delivery next year, the series will
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IN MY VIEW - Steve Barnett
On why the public's indifference to digital television has been seriously underestimated.
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RDF chairmanship tempts Eyre back
Richard Eyre, the former Pearson TV chief turned novelist, has dipped his toe back into the industry after agreeing to become chairman of indie RDF Media, writes Colin Robertson.
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Soap Awards and reality TV wash away elections
BBC 1 might have aspired to attract between 6 and 7 million with David Dimbleby's Challenge the Leader - Question Time Special at 21.00 on Wednesday, but it managed to shed
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COTTON AWARDED CBE
Former Meridian Broadcasting chairman Bill Cotton was this week knighted. Cotton, who also worked for the BBC between 1956 and 1988, was one of a number of industry figures who received
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COMMONWEALTH ASSOCIATION CHOOSES HEAD
The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) has appointed Gibraltar Broadcasting Corporation general manager George Valarino as its new acting president. Valarino takes over with immediate effect from former president Robert Emmett O'Reilly
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Tiger firms form Washington arm
Tiger Aspect Productions and sister company Tigress Productions have put around£500,000 into a new US factual operation and have poached National Geographic documentary producer Christine Weber to run it, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC APPOINTS EXECUTIVE
Maxine Watson, editor of BBC 2's multicultural strand Black Britain, has been appointed commissioning executive with responsibility for expanding and strengthening the corporations's factual multicultural output. Watson will continue in her
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Encoda appoints global tech boss
Encoda Systems, formed from the merger between CJDS, Enterprise and Drake Automation/DAL, has appointed Michael Dunn as global chief technology officer, writes Barbara Marshall.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - Digital difficulties
Besides confusion and apathy among the potential consumers of digital television there are a number of technical complexities that have made the government's proposed analogue switch-off seem an elusive goal.
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OFF THE RECORD - A dim bulb among the X-mas lights
Lookalikes. The industry has long noted the similarity between Carlton's Steve Hewlett and actor Robbie Coltrane. Both play characters that are larger than life, but one while one was guaranteed huge
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ITC boss warns against event TV
Programme Commissions are set for unprecedented polarisation as broadcasters concentrate on event programming while bulking out their schedules with cheap shows and repeats, according to Independent Television Commission director of strategy, economics an
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Jobs to go at Static after sale to OpenTV
Up to 10 jobs are set to go at interactive TV outfit Static 2358 following its purchase by US platform giant OpenTV in a cash and shares deal worth $59m (£42m), writes Simon Ellery.
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Corrie director goes to Family Affairs
Pearson TV has poached Coronation Street director Penny Shales to become the new series producer of Channel 5 daily soap Family Affairs, writes Georgina Lipscomb.