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Digital radio body chiefs are replaced
Less than a year after being set up promotional organisation undergoes management restructure as digital radio enters crunch year
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Broadcast conference changes
BBC director of public affairs Caroline Thompson is to address the Broadcast conference on the future of public service broadcasting in place of former BBC director of television Mark Thompson.The conference
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BSkyB digital prices criticised
Satellite broadcaster under fire for more than doubling set-top-box price attached to free-to-air package
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Wellbeing director goes to indie
Simon Schofield becomes director of programmes at Leeds-based indie Real Life Media
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Jack the Ripper faces interactive trial
Discovery Channel to show Michael Grade-fronted examination of Ripper suspects
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At The Races fills key job
Former Westcountry controller of news and current affairs Brad Higgins becomes horse-racing TV group's head of programming
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Virgin gives 'no repeat' pledge
No songs to be repeated between 09.00 and 17.00 during the week as station bids to attract more listeners in the workplace
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Granada appoints chief operating officer for new Sport and Interactive department
Former broadband director of operations Max Graesser to oversee development of new football joint ventures and existing sport contracts
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Ian Wright makes BBC 1 variety show pilot
Former footballer Ian Wright, who has a£1m deal with the BBC, has recorded a pilot for a new BBC 1 Saturday evening variety show.The show, Right Here, Wright Now,
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Extreme to make Lourdes of Love for C4
Northern Ireland-based indie Extreme Production has scored three new commissions, including a 4 x 5-minute series for Channel 4 about a major European event for single people.Lisdoonvarna - Lourdes of
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BBC buys children's comedy lizzie McGuire
The BBC has bought children's comedy series Lizzie McGuire from format distributor Egmont Imagination.The 21 x 30-minute series, produced by Stan Rogow Productions, debuted on the Disney Channel and has
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BBC fixes date for SAS factual survival show
The BBC is set to screen a series about the SAS that was postponed from its original transmission date because of the events of 11 September.SAS - Are You Tough
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MTV to broadcast new three-day festival
MTV is to produce more than three and a half hours of programming for its new three-day music festival MTV Winterjam 2002 which takes place in Austria.Overseen by MTV Europe
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Brook Lapping to make Thatcher doc
ITV has commissioned a major three-part profile series on former prime minister Margaret Thatcher from the company that produced Diana: Story of a Princess, writes Penny HughesBrook Lapping's 3 x 60-minute
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Carlton makes sale to new Oz kids channel
Carlton International has struck a content deal with new Australian kids digital channel ABC Kids. The deal includes 52 x 10-minute award-winning animation Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids and two live-action
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Discovery slate focuses on diets
Discovery Health has unveiled its first batch of commissions for this year with two new series and a second run of United Productions' Dietbusters, writes Simon Ellery.Discovery director of programmes for
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Ecosse wins fourth Monarch of the Glen
BBC Scotland has commissioned indie Ecosse Films to produce a fourth series of Monarch of the Glen.Shooting on the new series will begin in March in Scotland. It was commissioned
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Titchmarsh to look at science of gardening
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned BBC Bristol to make 6 x 30-minute series How to be a Gardener, in which Alan Titchmarsh explains the science behind gardening.The series,
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Twofourtv to give kids taste of life as a star
Plymouth-based indie Twofourtv is moving away from its reliance on factual and leisure commissions after scoring an 8 x 30-minute order from children's channel Nickelodeon, writes Georgina LipscombCommissioned by Nickelodeon head