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Hallmark plans VOD by year end.
The Hallmark Channel is in talks to launch a video-on-demand (VOD) service within the year, writes Simon Ellery.
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DYKE PROMISES ENGLISH REGIONAL SHOWS.
BBC director general Greg Dyke re-affirmed his commitment to develop programming for the English regions in a speech made to the Birmingham Newspaper Press Fund last Friday (9 March). He said
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HEAVEN GROWS DRY-HIRE.
Edit Heaven is expanding into the dry-hire business with the addition of three Avid systems to its X site. Founder Bryan Comley said he chose Avid in response to clients' requests.
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On Digital sport takes shape.
On Digital has made a clutch of new appointments in the first wave of hirings for its premium sports channel, which launches this summer, writes Simon Ellery.
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MXR PICKS UP NORTH-WEST DIGITAL LICENCE.
The MXR consortium has won its fourth regional digital licence in a row after the Radio Authority awarded it the franchise for north-west England. The group, which includes Chrysalis Radio, Capital
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DIGITAL VIEWING HABITS - The television divisions.
Twenty-seven per cent of households have digital TV. They are a critical group for programme makers, schedulers, strategists and channel controllers. Tim Ewington and Rachel Addley look at digital's viewers and their habits.
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ITV in digital satellite deal.
ITV has taken the first steps towards appearing on Sky Digital after concluding a deal this week with a Luxembourg-based satellite company to broadcast via digital satellite by the end of
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PERFORMANCE IN THREE-YEAR EUROARTS DEAL.
Arts channel Performance has struck a three-year output deal with German producer and distributor EuroArts for at least 100 hours of programming. Fifty hours have already been selected for 2001 and
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DCMS should not be scrapped.
While ministers have been eager to paper over tensions that have existed between the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the Department for Trade & Industry (DTI), MPs reporting
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STEVENSON TAKES OVER HIT'S CREATIVE TEAM.
Hit Entertainment has appointed Jocelyn Stevenson to head its creative team. She will take the newly-created role of executive vice-president, creative and development, reporting directly to Hit chief executive Peter Orton.
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FOX KIDS: CORRECTION.
An item on Fox Kids Europe's results (Broadcast, 2.3.01) was incorrectly headed 'Fox Kids profits fall'. The outfit saw EBITDA fall from $26.2m (£18m) to $16.3m (£11m) in the six months
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SCRIPT COMPETITION.
Granada has released details of its competition to find writing talent in the north-west. Applicants should submit a one-page idea on the theme of city life and a five-page script to
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RA supports community radio stations.
The Radio Authority is advocating the establishment of a new radio sector that could lead to community broadcasters competing with commercial stations, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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CIVILIAN UPS HOLDING.
Civilian Content, which finances, produces and exploits UK TV and film rights, has increased its shareholding in international sales agent The Sales Company from 25 per cent to 75 per cent.
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EBU TO CHOOSE HEAD.
Broadcasters are to meet in Geneva on Friday (16 March) to appoint the next secretary general of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBU operates the Eurovision network and serves 69
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'Virtual high street' to challenge Open.
TV consultancy Smashed Atom has been hired by telecoms specialist Energis Interactive to build a rival interactive shopping service to BSkyB's Open ..., writes Simon Ellery.
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Capital Radio chief to quit for own venture.
Capital Radio group director of programmes Richard Park has resigned from the company after nearly 14 years to set up his own venture, Park Broadcasting, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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CAPITAL SLIMS DOWN.
Capital Radio Group has off-loaded two of its smaller regional stations to Radio Investments in a deal worth£9.5m. The sale of Sunderland-based Sun FM and Mix 96 in Aylesbury follows
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Indies cheer tax breaks.
Independent producers have welcomed Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget announcement that sale and lease back tax breaks will be extended until 2005.The concessions, known as section 48 reliefs, were originally meant to
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Philips to sell Marantz brand.
Dutch electronics giant Philips is to sell the Marantz trademark plus the US and European sales arms of the audio equipment manufacturer to Marantz Japan Inc (MJI).Philips currently owns 51.5 per