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    Chrysalis to make history of TV doc

    2001-09-20T12:53:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part series from Chrysalis Entertainment that will attempt to deliver the 'definitive history of television show business in Britain', writes Simon ElleryOrdered by commissioning editor factual

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    Morrissey signed up for CyberDodo series

    2001-09-20T12:53:00Z

    Former Men Behaving Badly star and voice of Bob the Builder Neil Morrissey has been signed up to do the voiceover of a new kids series being supported by the World

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    Mentorn sells Robot Wars to Germany

    2001-09-20T12:53:00Z

    Mentorn International has sold Robot Warsto RTL in Germany for a 30-episode run beginning on RTL2 on 14 October.The series will air in a Sunday primetime slot and is

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    Star musician and quiz show series for NI

    2001-09-20T12:53:00Z

    Belfast-based production company Green Inc Productions has been commissioned to produce two new series for BBC Northern Ireland.In the joint commission, BBC Northern Ireland head of broadcast Tim Cooke and

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    NTL acts to calm investor nerves

    2001-09-20T11:54:00Z

    Cable company forced into action for second time in three months after shares crash to new low in New York

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    RTS Cambridge 2001

    2001-09-20T10:43:00Z

    Television's big hitters gathered in Cambridge last weekend despite events in the United States and the withdrawal of the convention's 'dream ticket' BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Liberty chief John Malone. Despite this delegates debated many of the c

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    ITV1 deadline set for digital satellite launch

    2001-09-20T10:14:00Z

    Carlton channels chief Clive Jones says channel will begin broadcasting on digital satellite by the end of November 'come hell or high water'

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    New BBC digital radio stations get mixed reception

    2001-09-20T09:56:00Z

    Commercial radio outfits welcome boost to digital but express competition concerns as consortium of commercial TV companies abandons plans to seek judicial review

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    Jowell to publish 'digital action plan'

    2001-09-20T09:55:00Z

    Media secretary promises plan to drive digital take-up as she admits industry faces 'challenging timetable' for analogue switch-off

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    Endemol drops out of Big Breakfast race

    2001-09-20T09:55:00Z

    Big Brother producer says it has 'really hot idea' but show is too expensive

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    Elstein leads calls for 40% in-house limit

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    Former Channel 5 chief says broadcasters should limit their current 70 in-house production quotas to boost UK independent productions

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    Over-regulation blamed for UK's global failure

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    Delegates at RTS convention in Cambridge told 'archaic' cross-media ownership rules and political fears of large media companies have held back UK global ambitions

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    Viewers bombarded by technology and information overload

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    Henley Centre chairman says 'time-poor' viewers are beign hit my too many channels, too much information and too much technology

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    Programme brands stronger than channels

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    Wall To Wall managing director Alex Graham welcomes era when 'programme brands? have a stronger identity than the channels which are broadcasting them'

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    Cambridge Comment by Katy Elliott

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    As the story of the terror in America and its potential consequences unfolded, fuelling the biggest TV news story of all time, there was a strange irony in the fact that

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    Tapscott urges greater kids input

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    New Paradigm Learning president Don Tapscott says broadcasters and producers should listen more to children now 'for the first time in history they are an authority on something interesting'

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    Overseas ownership threat to regional production

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    Granada chief Steve Morrison says he 'could not see production from the regions sustained if we are bought by an overseas company'

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    RTS: Who said what

    2001-09-20T09:54:00Z

    Granada chairman Charles Allen: 'I'd like to have heard what John Malone had to say because he sounds like a good person to work for'

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    Tivo slashes price of set-top box

    2001-09-20T09:11:00Z

    Device down£100 to£299 in bid to boost take-up

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    Granada calls-off search for Lythgoe replacement

    2001-09-20T09:11:00Z

    Beleaguered media company abandons search for new controller of entertainment and re-shuffles staff instead