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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Complete and Peach merge.
Big finish has bought a 50 per cent stake in post house Peach and has merged its own commercials facility, Complete, into the business to form a new outfit, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - VIDEO CONFERENCE.
The International Academy of Broadcasting (IAB) is hosting a conference on behalf of the Digital Video Broadcasting project (DVB). DVB World 2002 will take place in Dublin on 6 and 7
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LIVE CRICKET ON THE NET.
The online arm of Wisden, the cricket publisher, is to stream England's entire one-day series against India live online. Wisden will charge #10 for the first match on 19 January and
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TWI scores World Cup output deal.
TWI HAS SCOOPED a major contract to produce the bulk of the build-up and post-match programming for World Cup 2002, writes Simon Ellery.
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NATPE SPECIAL: INTERVIEW - The wheeler dealer.
William Morris' Hans Schiff has a much sought-after skill: striking successful deals for British producers in the notoriously tricky American market.
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Discovery slate focuses on diets.
Discovery Health has unveiled its first batch of commissions for this year with two new series and a second run of United Productions' Dietbusters, writes Simon Ellery.
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SECOND DIGITAL TRIAL.
Viewers in two UK regions could face disruption to their analogue service for up to 10 weeks as a second digital TV trial takes place. The Independent Television Commission and the
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LEADER - Playing a digital numbers game.
Starting the new year without overnight ratings has put TV in its place. Producers were temporarily prevented from boasting about their relative share first thing in the morning; pundits have kept
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Wellbeing director goes to indie.
Simon Schofield, former director of content at ill-fated Granada digital channel Wellbeing, has been appointed as director of programmes at Leeds-based indie Real Life Media Productions, writes Penny Hughes.
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OFF THE RECORD - If in doubt, plug.
Off the Record spies (looking remarkably excited) were last week posted in the audience for Johnny Vaughan's new BBC Choice/ BBC 1 talkshow to see if it was going to get
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TX - The drive of your life.
Having injected some fire into The Ashes in 1999, C4 has selected Neil Duncanson to be the driving force behind its revamped coverage of the World Rally Championships in 2002. And
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Ealing Studios redevelopment gets underway.
Demolition work has begun at Ealing Studios as the famous site enters its centenary year, writes Barbara Marshall.
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ECOSSE WINS FOURTH MONARCH OF THE GLEN.
BBC Scotland has commissioned indie Ecosse Films to produce a fourth series of Monarch of the Glen. Shooting on the new series will begin in March in Scotland. It was commissioned
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - EGG SPEAKERS LAUNCHED.
Japanese in-car communications specialist Fujitsu Ten has set up a UK operation, Eclipse TD, to market its unique egg-shaped speaker monitors aimed at the recording and broadcast market. Eclipse TD UK
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MTV EUROPE PROMOTES.
MTV European feed head of production and programming Hans Hagman has been promoted to MTV Networks Europe music programming vice-president. Reporting to MTV Networks Europe senior vice-president, music, Harriet Brand, Hagman
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JACK THE RIPPER FACES INTERACTIVE TRIAL.
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade is to present an interactive two-part special examining theories about the identity of Jack the Ripper for the Discovery Channel, writes Simon Ellery.
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ITV AND SKY FALL OUT.
ITV Digital and BSkyB are blaming each other for a failure to agree a carriage deal for the ITV Sport Channel. Sky has attacked ITV for cancelling a meeting this week
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At The Races fills key job.
Horse-racing TV group At The Races has hired former Westcountry controller of news and current affairs Brad Higgins as head of programming, writes Simon Ellery.
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INDIE FINANCE - What's Victoria Real's secret?
Over 10 years ago Victoria Real started out as a small low-cost production outfit specialising in niche sports coverage. Now it has grown into one of the UK's best-known interactive producers. Meg Carter reports.
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TITCHMARSH TO LOOK AT SCIENCE OF GARDENING.
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned BBC Bristol to make 6 x 30-minute series How to be a Gardener, in which Alan Titchmarsh explains the science behind gardening. The series,