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INTERVIEW - War of independents.
Shaun Williams, chief executive of producers' alliance Pact for almost exactly three years, leaves his post at the end of this week. As he begins a holiday before joining Carlton Communications
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HARDING PROMOTED TO WORLD SERVICE ROLE.
BBC controller editorial policy Phil Harding has been appointed BBC World Service English networks and news director. Harding, who has been in his current role since 1996, takes up his new
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Granada re-lists.
Granada Media plc has this week been re-listed on the stock exchange as Granada plc as it becomes completely demerged from its main shareholder, hospitality business Granada Compass, writes Colin Robertson.
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OFF THE RECORD - Pact man wouldn't go near an indie.
After giving some of the best years of his life to championing the interests of independent producers at the helm of Pact, Shaun Williams has admitted to Broadcast that there are
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MODELS IN THE FRAME.
Sportsworld Media Group is billing a new reality TV show called Search for a Supermodel as the successor to current ITV hit Popstars, writes Simon Ellery.
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Pinewood finds Silver Lining.
Pinewood Studios has made its first move into production and rights ownership by taking a majority share in children's specialist Silver Lining, writes Barbara Marshall.
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AND FINALLY.
Mark Damazer, BBC assistant director news, tinkles the ivories about as well as Spurs play ...What is your proudest achievement?Learning to play the piano - appallingly - while working for BBC
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OPTOMEN'S FASHION TIP.
Optomen Television is making a 'frockudrama' series for Channel 4, aiming to do for fashion what Jamie Oliver (right) did for cookery shows, writes Ashley Davies.
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OFF THE RECORD - New evidence of PM losing fans.
ITN's schpinmeister, Mark Gallagher, showed the world just how influential he is last week during a white paper briefing session just opposite the Houses of Parliament. The meeting, which was attended
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Red Fig enhances its TV voting system.
Interactive TV specialist Red Fig is set to introduce a return path to its real-time TV voting system to enable programme makers to send personalised information to viewers via mobile phones, writes Barbara Marshall.
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EM.TV POSTS LOSS.
Children's television property specialist EM.TV - which bought the Jim Henson Company last April - posted a loss of EUR135,268 (£85,260) for the period 1 January to 30 September 2000, against
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On Digital registers sites.
On Digital owners Granada Media and Carlton Comm-unications are registering internet addresses under the On Digital brand, in another step towards a unified ITV web brand, write Simon Ellery and Jon Rogers.
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SEX AND VIOLENCE INCREASED THROUGH DECADE.
The amount of violence, sex and bad language shown on the television has increased throughout the 1990s. According to the latest Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) report for 1999, the number of
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ZONE DISCOVERY DEAL.
London-based channel producer and distributor Zone Vision has renewed a representation agreement with Discovery Communications Europe for a further five years. The contract covers Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Civilisations, Discovery
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DCMS 'open' to ideas for Ofcom.
The government is open to suggestions about the best structure for its proposed single regulator, Ofcom, media secretary Chris Smith said this week. Speaking at an Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR)
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USA NETWORK SNAPS UP DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Target Distribution has sold the format of Hewland International drama Daylight Robbery (left) to USA Network. The US broadcaster is expected to make an 8 x 60-minute version of the drama,
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White paper will date too rapidly.
Media select committee chairman Gerald Kaufman has suggested the government's communications white paper will be dead before it is translated into legislation.At the second session of the select committee's inquiry into
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Database plan for multicultural talent.
Channel 4 is setting up a multicultural talent database and has hired Granada Television producer/director Amina Razaq to implement it, writes Ashley Davies.
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ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS' CUBEEZ GOES GLOBAL.
Entertainment Rights has sold the 26 x 11-minute and 13 x 30-minute children's property Cubeez to a number of international broadcasters, including Discovery Kids Latin America, Fox Kids Australia, TVP Poland,
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OFF THE RECORD - Mole win proves critics wrong.
It has emerged that Action Time initially had a bit of trouble pitching the format for The Mole to British broadcasters last year. Many of the biggies said they kind of