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beeb Ventures profits in the face of the dotcom downturn.
The BBC has said its ISP beeb.net has entered the black for the first time since launch in September 1999, although it has refused to name revenue figures, writes David Wood.
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STAR IN POLAR BEAR DOC.
Ewan McGregor has been signed up by indie Tigress Productions to present an episode of its award-winning wildlife entertainment series In The Wild. Filmed on location in Northern Canada, Polar Bears
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BBC/Granada in education win.
A BBC/Granada Media consortium has been handed the£42m contract to create the government's digital GCSE channel.The channel will launch in September next year and will produce course material for six
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BBC dismisses Gavin rumour.
The BBC has dismissed speculation that BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin is quitting the corporation, write Simon Ellery and Colin Robertson.
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BBC shows what's in pipeline.
BBC controller of entertainment commissioning Danielle Lux has announced her first raft of commissions, ordering 14 shows from in-house and independent producers, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BBC SPONSORS MIT LAB.
BBC Imagineering creative director Fiona McKenzie has negotiated a three-year deal to sponsor the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's newly created Media Lab Europe in Dublin. The deal means the BBC can
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BANZAI/BIG BRO LINK.
Banzai, the Japanese-style interactive gambling show that launched on digital youth channel E4 in January, is to air after episodes of the second series of Big Brother, according to a senior
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Pearson backs Jamie Oliver indie.
Pearson TV is taking a stake in celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's new indie, being set up to develop 'original, cutting-edge' cookery and non-cookery related programming for himself and other presenters, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ELSTON GOES BACK TO TWENTY TWENTY.
London-based indie Twenty Twenty Television has poached the BBC's Paul Elston to be its head of development/executive producer. His brief is to develop and executive produce new material for the company.
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Awards - Longitude garners record nominations.
Channel 4'S Longitude has been nominated a record-breaking eight times in this year's British Academy Television Craft awards - more than any other programme in Bafta's history. The record was previously
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BBC SHORTLISTS ARCHITECTS FOR SCOT HQ.
A BBC architectural competition jury has shortlisted two international architectural firms to build BBC Scotland's new headquarters at Pacific Quay in Glasgow. Architects David Chipperfield and Mecanoo have been chosen from
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FOX APPOINTS HARRINGTON FOR SALES.
Twentieth Century Fox TV has appointed Jennifer Harrington as sales manager.She joins from Flextech where she was acquisitions executive for the outfit's Bravo channel. In her new role, Harrington will report
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OFF THE RECORD - DGs have no answers for EBU.
A high-profile audience at an EBU conference in Brussels on public service broadcasting in Europe was left puzzled last week when a Q & A session had to be abandoned as
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SPECIAL: MIP-TV - BBC hits to air on Yes TV.
Yes Television is to launch a BBC-branded video-on-demand (VOD) channel this month, offering shows such as Absolutely Fabulous, Men Behaving Badly and Walking with Dinosaurs.The service, which will initially only be
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KERRANG! SET TO AIR.
Ortmansyounginternational has created the complete on-air identity package for new rock music channel Kerrang! TV. A series of graphical opening and closing sequences were created using cell animation before being composited
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Free to Air - No time to be proud.
Awards, as Channel 4 was reminded at last week's Broadcasting Press Guild gong show, can be a curse as well as a cause for celebration. C4 cleaned up at this year's
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SMG AGREES NEW TERMS.
Scottish Media Group has agreed to the terms for its ITV licences announced by the ITC on 19 March. SMG was the sole ITV company not to agree immediately to new
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AND FINALLY: Jane O'Hara, managing director Rajar, wishes she could still smoke on aeroplanes.
If you weren't in radio what would you be doing?Probably something to do with gardening or sailingWhat is your proudest achievement?Helping to get radio taken seriously when it was a 1
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GREEN OFFERS ADVICE.
Video Europe managing director Steve Green has insisted that good management would have softened the blow for equipment hire companies in the recent market slump. Green said: 'A company has to
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Advertising Revenue - Fate of the shop window.
A slow-down in advertising sales is not good news for the biggest commercial broadcaster of them all - ITV - or for its programme-makers. Despite strong performances in the ratings, a lack of revenue will inevitably affect future budgets and commissions.