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Prebble calls for 2006 switch-off.
ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble has attacked media secretary Tessa Jowell for dragging her feet over plans to switch the UK over to digital television.Speaking at the Commons media select committee
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Thompson does about face on BBC 3.
Channel 4 has launched a bitter attack on the BBC's revised plans for new youth channel BBC 3 with a strategy that is understood to have been greenlit by former BBC director of TV and incoming C4 chief executive Mark Thompson, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Pact and C4 join row over indies' status.
Producers' alliance Pact and Channel 4 have joined Endemol UK and Cafe Productions to heap further pressure on the government to readdress the rules affecting independent producers owned by foreign companies.Pact
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Tiger Aspect brings Bodily Harm to C4.
Channel 4 head of drama Tessa Ross has commissioned a new drama from the writer of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Tony Grounds, writes Steve Aston.
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C4 TO AIR RACING TIPS SERIES ON SAT MORNINGS.
Channel 4 is to launch a new half-hour Saturday morning sports show featuring betting fronted by Gary Imlach. Kicking off on Saturday (2 February), Sporting Talk will feature sporting experts, including
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CREATIVE REJOINS 422.
Designer Graham Watts has rejoined 422 as creative director after four years, most recently spent with Skaramoosh. Based in Bristol, Watts will lead 422's work on major UK factual TV and
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C5 public service pledge.
Channel 5 controller of factual Dan Chambers has pledged to boost the amount of public service programming on C5 as the broadcaster continues to drive upmarket, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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C5 BUYS IN FOOTBALL.
Channel 5 has spent some of this year's increased programming budget on acquiring exclusive rights to broadcast live England's bid to win the European 2002 Under-21 Championship, beating off competition from
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C5 TO AIR WISE AND WONDERFUL ANIMAL STORIES.
Pilgrim Productions Canterbury, co-producer of ITV series Ultimate Questions, has bagged a 13 x 10-minute children's animation series for Channel 5. Ordered by commissioner for daytime, arts and religion Kim Peat,
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C5 GIVES SPORTS ORDER TO SUNSET & VINE.
Sunset & Vine has signed a three-year deal with Channel 5 to produce the broadcaster's late-night sport. Following the deal, which runs until the end of 2004, the company will produce
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C5 FOLLOWS SOAP STARS UP KILIMANJARO.
Channel 5 controller of factual Dan Chambers has unveiled his first commission for the broadcaster with a 60-minute documentary, following a group of soap stars as they attempt to climb Mount
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Exposure acquires 8811 assets.
Editing outfit Exposure has paid #250,000 for the assets of duplication facility 8811 which went into liquidation last November (Broadcast, 23.11.01), writes Barbara Marshall.
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AARDMAN'S SPROXTON GOES BACK TO PRODUCING.
Aardman Animations managing director David Sproxton is stepping down from day-to-day responsibilities at the company and is giving up his title in order to return to producing at Aardman. The indie,
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MPs in call for 'toddler TV' ad ban.
Media secretary Tessa Jowell is facing a demand to ban TV advertising during programmes targeted at under-fives, writes David Rose.
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NATPE CHANGES AFOOT.
Natpe organisers are understood to be considering plans to split the event into three - separating out domestic syndication and international syndication with a third event for the advertising community. The
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Disney TV set to broadcast after bedtime.
The battle for pre-school viewers is in danger of being taken way past the traditional 20.00 bedtime with Walt Disney set to extend the running time for its Playhouse Disney channel to 23.00, writes Simon Ellery.
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BARB UNDER FIRE AGAIN.
The Broadcasters' Audi-ence Research Board (Barb) has come in for renewed criticism following research from media buying agency Carat that suggests the new Barb system is inaccurate. The research claimed the
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NTL refinancing could aid merger.
The imminent restructure of debt-laden cable outfit NTL could accelerate a merger with its UK rival Telewest, according to investment bank Merrill Lynch, writes Simon Ellery.
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NTL pulls Eurosport off air in Ireland.
NTL has stopped broadcasting Eurosport in Ireland after failing to agree terms for digital carriage, writes Simon Ellery.
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EXTREME TO AIR GAMES.
The Extreme Sports Channel has bought the UK TV rights to the boarding and BMX event The Gravity Games previously screened on BBC 2. Coverage of the 2001 event, which took