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ITV late news needs high ratings lead-in
High-rating post-watershed programmes have become an essential means of securing viewers for ITV's News at Ten, according to research conducted for Broadcast.Figures from David Graham & Associates this week reveal that
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KIMBER IS NET HEAD
BBC Radio 1 online manager Chris Kimber has been appointed as the corporation's first head of radio online. Kimber, who will report to controller of new media, BBC radio and music,
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Open's future uncertain as Florsheim takes Sky role
Speculation that Sky is poised to dump its interactive shopping brand, Open, mounted this week following news that Open managing director Jon Florsheim has taken on a senior role at Sky
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OFF THE RECORD - AND FINALLY...
Diane Whitley, producer at Granada Kids, reveals how she gets a kick out of life...If you weren't in TV/radio what would you be doing?Sitting on a beach somewhere, writing my novelWho
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Shed films Footie Wives
Shed Productions is set to make 8 x 60-minute episodes of ITV drama Footballers' Wives and has poached Casualty producer Liz Lake to make it, writes Colin Robertson.The move comes in
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News moves fail to make a splash
When the BBC/ITV news at 22.00 battle started, critics and the ITC were shouting about lost ratings but, six months on, the fuss seems to have come to nothing with viewers tuning in much as they did before.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Softimage jobs go as Stojda moves up
Softimage has shed 47 staff including general manager David Pritchard, just nine months after buying Pritchard's games and web animation company, The Motion Factory.Mike Stojda, who was product director of the
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Flotation or sale for Snell & Wilcox
Broadcast equipment manufacturer Snell & Wilcox is seeking to raise capital for what it sees as necessary expansion, writes Adrian Pennington.According to director of communications Kevin Melia, the company hopes to
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RDF sells stake to fund expansion
RDF Media has finalised a deal to sell an undisclosed stake in the company to venture capitalist Sagitta Private Equity for£3.2m, writes Katy Elliott.The sale - believed to be in
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - TAMBORINE EXPANDS
Sound facility Tamborine Productions is expanding with the opening of a second studio at its Soho site and has plans to open a third in the next 18 months. The company,
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - EMI Music selects Tele-Cine
EMI Music has chosen Tele-Cine for all its short-form duplication needs following the facility's installation of the UK's first Omneon Video Network integrated server and storage system, writes Barbara Marshall.Part of
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ON DIGITAL SILENCE
On Digital has declined to comment on reports this week that joint owners Carlton Communications and Granada Media are planning spending cutbacks to the beleaguered digital platform as first revealed in
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Digital transfer is a 'shambles'
The transition from analogue to digital television in the UK was described as being in a 'complete shambles' at a Voice of the Listener & Viewer conference on digital TV last
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Digital plans need rethinking
The prime minister's decision to set back a general election date by at least a month until June prompts a glance at the list of unfinished government business for this industry.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - DIBS REVAMPS AS GO
Sony's interactive technology business, Sony Digital Interactive Broadband Services (DiBS), has relaunched as Go interact tv. The spin-off, which acts as technology partner to interactive producers and worked with Simply Money
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Southern Star signs two-year deal with RAI
Southern Star Wild & Real has announced a two-year factual output deal with Italian broadcaster RAI 3, writes Steve Aston.The arrangement will see the company provide a minimum of 20 hours
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CHEAP DIGITAL RADIOS
Digital radios could soon cost less than£100 after national multiplex operator Digital One - owned by GWR and NTL - signed a£3m deal with Imagination Technologies to create a
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OFF THE RECORD - Cable chaos
And so to the annual cable industry awards where Off The Record was mightily confused to see Disney's Playhouse pick up a gong for best pre-school channel in 2000. The channel
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Broadcasters embrace ethnic diversity code
Broadcasters are set to agree a new commissioning clause that will force them to reflect the multiracial make-up of Britain in their output, writes Leigh Holmwood.The BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel