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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - Collaboration key to winning news funds
News Organisations must be prepared to collaborate if they are to overcome increasing cost pressures facing TV news corporations in the current economic climate, according to CNN International networks president Chris
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - PRAISE FOR AL-JAZEERA
Western news organisations have praised Qatar-based news network Al-Jazeera for its 'refreshing' involvement in the coverage of the war on Afghanistan. The station, which has provided a continual stream of exclusive
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - Pressure for exclusives threatens news quality
Pressure on 24-hour news broadcasters to deliver exclusives is threatening the quality of broadcasts, according to BBC news deputy director Mark Damazer, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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New president for Static 2358
Open TV has recruited another former senior executive of the defunct British Interactive Broadcasting (BIB), appointing Joan Gillman as president of its interactive TV subsidiary Static 2358, writes Simon Ellery.
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Top C4 execs on panel to hire new chief
The Channel 4 board has taken the unusual step of placing two its most senior channel executives on the interview panel that is choosing a successor to former C4 chief executive Michael Jackson, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Anson goes in 4 Ventures cut
Channel 4 head of business planning and interactive Andy Anson has become the first casualty of the planned 15 redundancies at the broadcaster's commercial arm 4 Ventures.His departure will herald a
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C4 to look at European migration
October Films has landed a major commission for Channel 4 to be directed by award-winning documentary-maker Angus Maqueen, writes Simon Ellery.
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STRESS MANIACS ON C4
Channel 4 editor, arts and animation Camilla Deakin has commissioned indie Pesky to make a one-off animated gameshow for C4's Hot Reels: Animation Grand Prix strand, writes Jon Rogers. Fifteen-minute Stress
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MD Pannaman quits 4MC
4MC CO-MANAGING director Nick Pannaman has quit the industry, claiming it is 'time for a change', writes Barbara Marshall.
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C4 TO AIR THE WORST OF CORPORATE VIDEOS
Code Design produced the opening titles and stings for Channel 4 Comedy Lab pastiche 'Jimmy Carr's World of Corporate Videos', a light-hearted tribute to corporate videos from the past 30 years.
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RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 4 NOVEMBER - Heavyweight contenders square up for Christmas
In the heavy calibre primetime audience battle between BBC 1 and ITV 1 it's hard pounding now as the two of them lumber towards Christmas.ITV had no problems dominating Monday, Wednesday
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New BBC drama to reveal MI5's secrets
The BBC is hoping to lift the lid on M15 with a major six-part drama series on Britain's top secret spy service, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Mouse and 8811 facing closure
Duplication and post facilities 8811 and The Mouse & Keyboard will go into liquidation if a buyer is not found by the end of this month.Group managing director Glyn Bartlett said
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RAPID ADDS SMOKE
West London post facility Rapid Pictures has just completed a£250,000 expansion that includes the addition of Discreet high-end compositing system Smoke. The firm is also expanding its multimedia and DVD
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Emap moves against GWR
The Midlands city of Leicester has become an unlikely battleground for digital radio after Emap Performance stepped up its challenge to GWR's stranglehold on the city by offering to supply residents with digital radio sets for under£50, writes Georgina L
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Pickard heralds kids golden age
CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has unveiled details of the BBC's two new digital children's channels, which he claimed herald a 'golden age in children's programming'.The corporation's pre-school network will be called
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MTV to give away rights to P Diddy Aids Day special
MTV is to produce a one-off documentary fronted by notorious rapper P Diddy for World Aids Day on 1 December, which it plans to offer to other broadcasters free of charge, writes Simon Ellery.
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Free to air - 'effing and blinding away
It was with some surprise that, trapped at home with terrestrial television, I heard the advance warning for the Robbie Williams spectacular on BBC 1: 'Blah ... blah ... blah ...
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News Analysis - Positive signals
How have digital radio operators escaped the woes of other broadcasters which invested in new technology, even though no date has been set for analogue switch-off and digital radio sets are still a hefty£200?
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Granada frets over Anglia production
Granada senior executives are privately concerned that network production at the company's acquired Anglia TV franchise is under threat.The news comes as Granada has finally axed the United Productions brand, the