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    HERALD TRIBUNE BULLETINS TO AIR ON EURONEWS

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    ITN-owned European news channel Euronews has signed a deal with Fact Based Communications (FBC) for pan-European carriage of a new weekly eight-minute programme Economia Review, the business news magazine programme of

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    FREE TO AIR - Strike: force for good?

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    It looks as though The Premiership has moved just in time. As the likes of Ryan Giggs and Paolo di Canio get out their fingerless gloves and fire up the braziers

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    AL-JAZEERA TO LAUNCH ENGLISH SERVICE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based TV station, is to begin broadcasting an English version next year. The TV station broadcasts in Arabic to around 15 million viewers across the Middle East and central

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    WORLD SERVICE GOES DIGITAL IN NORTH AMERICA

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC World Service North America business development manager Brian Jarman has signed a deal with US-based XM Satellite Radio network to enable the World Service to air as a digital radio

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - A shrinking asset

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Despite the strong showing ITV kids series made at last month's Baftas and the high-earning distribution potential of the genre, CITV's future looks far from rosy as further cuts are expected in the department.

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    BRIGHTER GIVEN ANIMATED MOBSTERS ORDER

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Brighter Pictures has received a joint commission from Buena Vista International (BVI) UK and CITV to produce a 30-minute documentary looking at how the animated film Monsters, Inc was made. Commissioned

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    MESH PICKS NEW DIGITAL ANIMATION DIRECTORS

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has picked eight digital animators to take part in this year's Mesh new talent scheme, writes Penny Hughes.

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    ROGER GRAEF TAKES ANOTHER LOOK AT THE POLICE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC creative director of investigations Alex Holmes has commissioned a two-hour special on how the police have changed over the past two years from Films of Record. Police: Where Have all

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    EMAP RADIO ARM LOSSES

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Emap Performance, part of the company that publishes Broadcast, has posted a 12 per cent drop in operating profits in the first half of this year. According to interim results, its

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    Softel steps in to rescue Aston

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    UK manufacturer of video character generators Aston Electronic Designs has been saved from liquidation by Reading-based subtitling and interactive TV specialist Softel.Aston was put into administrative receivership last Monday (5 November)

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    DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY WINS RADIO AWARD

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Leicester-based De Montfort University's Demon FM has been named station of the year at the annual student radio awards. As part of the prize, the station will get to broadcast a

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    Passion victor at Leaf awards

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Passion Pictures led the field at the London Effects & Animation Festival (Leaf) awards held at the London Hippodrome on Tuesday (13 November), writes Barbara Marshall.

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    The Wright Stuff axed over costs

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 director of programmes Kevin Lygo has axed Granada's morning talkshow The Wright Stuff after a disagreement over costs, writes Steve Aston.

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    BBC role for Ofcom rebuffed

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The Government this week rejected demands from the media select committee that new BBC services should be approved and reviewed by Ofcom as part of a three-pronged rebuttal of the committee's recommendations, writes David Rose.

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    BBC brings off Kabul coup

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The BBC - the self-styled 'liberator of Kabul' - this week transformed its newsgathering operation in Afghanistan after becoming the first western broadcaster to install a satellite playout facility in the

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    BBC LISTS DEPUTIES

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The shortlist for the post of BBC deputy chairman has been completed, with the first interviews due to start over the next few weeks. An appointment is expected by 14 December.

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    Testino and Turner on BBC

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC controller of arts commissioning Roly Keating has unveiled a slate of new programmes for BBC 1 and BBC 2 including an Omnibus special on photographer Mario Testino.The 60-minute Testino profile,

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    BECTU SLAMS BBC PLAN

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Bectu members have rejected the BBC's proposal to set up its broadcast and presentation department as a separate but wholly owned limited company. In a ballot, almost 90 per cent of

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    BBC'S SHEFFIELD SITE

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has opened its new regional broadcasting centre in Sheffield, which includes a drop-in centre where residents can access the internet and take part in public broadcasting. The Shoreham Street

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    SRH IRISH RADIO BID

    2001-11-16T00:00:00Z

    Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) has made its second major radio acquisition inside a month, adding the 76 per cent stake in Radio Ireland that it didn't already own to its£18m