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DIGITAL LICENCE FOR SRH
The Radio Authority has awarded the local digital multiplex licence for Inverness to the sole applicant, Score Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Radio Holdings. Score Digital proposes to launch
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DISNEY HIRES SMITH
The Walt Disney Company has hired former media secretary Chris Smith as a senior advisor ahead of the planned launch of the BBC's two children's channels. Smith, who started this month,
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INTERVIEW - Getting factual right
BBC factual and learning co-director Glenwyn Benson is banking on risk-taking and interactivity to restore the morale of a department hit by job losses and a reduction in orders.
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OFF THE RECORD - Tasty geezer gives us the trembles
Broadcast isn't often associated with tasty geezers, gangland bosses and big men who call their mum 'duchess', but it's amazing who turns up at our parties. While you expect Ant, Dec
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Strong growth for satellite TV
Satellite TV take-up continues to outgun cable, with 1.12 million consumers having opted to take pay-TV services through a dish over the past 12 months compared with 310,000 cable subscribers, according to the latest Independent Television Commission quar
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ITN REDUNDANCIES
ITN has accepted 75 applications for voluntary redundancy in its bid to axe around 90 jobs. The news provider, which has been consulting staff over job losses since November, met with
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PLAY UK TAKES REGIONAL LOOK AT ROCK AND ROLL
Play UK has commissioned a 10-part music series called They Came From.The series looks at the different regions of the UK and the bands that emerged from them, such as KLF,
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TX - Orchestral manoeuvres
The starting point for the children's animated feature The King's Beard was an exercise at film school that involved writing a one-paragraph story.Tony Collingwood, who wrote and directed the feature, came
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USA NETWORKS SOLD
Media giant Vivendi Universal has bought the US cable TV, film and TV production operation USA Networks for£7bn. The deal combines USA Networks' production division with Hollywood studio Universal's film
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NTL SPORT PLAN OFF
NTL content subsidiary Premium TV has shelved plans for a joint-venture sport channel with the BBC because of its financial problems. The BBC was due to provide archive sport footage to
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TRADE TALK - Staying power
The reorganisation of the BBC arts department brings new challenges for stalwart commissioning executive for independents Roger Thompson.
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OFF THE RECORD - Stop press
An OTR spy went to see a Granada film last weekend and it was all right. Honest.
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OFF THE RECORD - Shameless showoff
Anybody else spot Andy Harries hogging the limelight at the British Comedy Awards on Saturday night? Not content with constant name checks in previous years (thanks Bill Bailey), this year the
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SAGA RETURNS
ITV has gambled on the success of its costly adaptation of The Forsyte Saga by commissioning a second series of the period drama before the first has even hit the screens, writes Steve Aston.
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WORLDWIDE SACKING
BBC Worldwide has dismissed director of global marketing and brand development Jeff Taylor, who was involved in a fraud investigation involving Tweenies dolls in Hong Kong. Worldwide has made it clear
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IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah
On whether the BBC will go against the 'white male' grain in choosing its new director of TV.
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Channel 4 awards Big Breakfast slot to Sky and Princess
New live breakfast show to be produced at Sky's headquarters
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500 BBC radio production staff to move
BBC Resources is set to lose another tranche of its activities in April when staff from radio resources will rejoin the main BBC, writes Barbara MarshallFive hundred technical and support staff
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Aardman's Byles joins Soho 601 as duo quit
Soho 601 has hired Aardman head of CGI Will Byles in the same week as losing two staff to New Zealand post facility Oktobor, writes Barbara MarshallHead of telecine Andrew Clarkson
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Soho ed signs euro duo
Freelance agency Soho Editors has signed two European Discreet operators - Klaudija Cermak and Christophe Richard.Cermak has spent the past 13 months working in Germany but previously worked for Mill