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LOCAL TV IN DIFFICULTIES
Local Broadcasting Group (LBG), the UK's largest holder of local terrestrial TV licences, has gone into administration. LBG, which was set up a year ago by broadcast equipment hire company VFG,
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NEW ITV DIGITAL GAME
ITV Digital has launched a play along interactive game where viewers predict key events during live football games, such as the time of first goal. Called Predictor, the service launched on
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NOW DIGITAL WINS PETERBOROUGH LICENCE
The Radio Authority has awarded Now Digital the local digital multiplex licence for Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Now Digital, wholly owned by GWR, is proposing seven commercial services and has reserved capacity
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DIGITAL PIRACY - Sinking digital's pirates
As struggling operator ITV Digital issues a stern warning to subscribers about the use of fake smartcards to access premium services, debate rages in the industry on how best to outflank the digital pirates.
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DISTRIBUTORS SEMINAR
BBC Worldwide director of international TV Mike Phillips is to head a British Television Distributors Association seminar on TV distribution to be held on 4 December at Channel 4's Horseferry Road
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UK distributors pull out of Natpe
Two of the UK's biggest broadcasters have been forced to pull out of next year's Natpe programme market in Las Vegas due to the high cost of attending the annual event.Both
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iTV must be easier to use, says Hodgson
Interactive TV is more difficult to use than a PC and only slightly easier than flying an aeroplane, riding a motorbike or using a sewing machine, according to research commissioned by the Independent Television Commission (ITC), writes Lucy Rouse.
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VOD EASTENDERS IN US
BBC America is launching an EastEnders video-on-demand service for digital cable subscribers in the US. The soap currently airs two weeks behind the UK but the new service will enable viewers
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Einstein goes into space
Einstein Entertainment has sealed a deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a series on astronauts, writes Simon Ellery.
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Energis scoops pension project
Energis Interactive, the digital TV firm owned by telecoms giant Energis and software developer Graham Technology, has been selected by the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) to develop a£1.6m
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VIENNA EUROPEAN RADIO FORUM POSTPONED
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has called off its planned European radio forum next June. The conference, The Voice of European Radio in the 21st Century, was due to be held
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RTS FILM-MAKING EVENT
Veteran Northern Irish TV producers Paul Greengrass and Peter Taylor are to discuss their contrasting approaches to filmmaking at a Royal Television Society session on 10 December. Chaired by factual producer
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Zenith plans factual revival
Zenith Entertainment is looking to revive its mainstream factual output with the appointment of former Right to Reply series editor Ed Braman as executive producer, network factual programmes, writes Steve Aston.
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TV LICENCE FEE TO RISE
The television licence fee is to go up by£3 to£112 from April under the funding formula drawn up by the BBC and the government to pay for the corporation's
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AND FINALLY...
Lisa Prime, children's awards officer at Bafta, wishes the Banana Splits would come backWhat do you sing in the shower?Show tunes and anything from GreaseWhen were you happiest?Sipping a beer in
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FIVE LIVE NEWS HIRES
New BBC Radio Five Live head of news Ceri Thomas has made a clutch of appointments across the station's daily news strands. Simon Mayo editor Sali Collins is to become editor
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NO FOOTBALL STRIKE
The Premier League and the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) have struck a deal to avert a damaging footballers' strike which would have hit ITV and BSkyB sports coverage. The deal sees
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Platform Post gains investors
Two Welsh facility companies have put money into new Soho graphics and post-production house Platform Post, writes Barbara Marshall.Barcud Derwen and Mwnci have each taken a one-third share in the new
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
The advertising market is down across Europe, but smaller TV markets with less developed commercial television are feeling less of a pinch, writes Kate Bulkley.