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Granada International programme chief joins Nickelodeon
Jules Borkent re-joins kids' broadcaster in new role as senior director programming
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BBC eyes January for Broadcast and Presentation spin-off
Corporation's creative arm to be incorporated as stand- alone business unit as Dyke looks for ways to raise further cash
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Premiership struggles to score
ITV's new primetime football highlights show beaten by 'reality' Weakest Link
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Twiggy and Coleen Nolan join This Morning
Ex-pop-star and former supermodel to join Fern Britten and John Leslie as new presenters of cult daytime show
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London News Network to shed jobs
Producers of the Alistair Stewart-fronted London Tonight to cut 11 per cent of workforce after news restructure
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£200,000 FOR SKILLSET
Training body Skillset has been awarded a grant of almost£200,000 from the London Development Agency for training initiatives within the capital. Part of the money is earmarked to organise another
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Broadcast millionaires lose£200m in wealth
The combined wealth of the UK's 100 richest TV and radio executives has dropped by£200m in the last year following the dotcom crash, slump in advertising revenues and subsequent cascade
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Lygo raids C4 for top team at C5
Channel 5 has poached E4 director of programmes Andrew Newman as controller of entertainment and sources have said C5 senior programme controller Michael Attwell has an 'uncertain future' at the channel, write Penny Hughes and Georgina Lipscomb.
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C4 satire row draws CPS
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is considering a case for prosecuting Channel 4 and Talkback, producer of the controversial Brass Eye satire, under the Protection of Children Act, writes Penny Hughes.
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C4 to 'iron out' orders policy
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam this week said plans would be put in place to iron out problems with the channel's commissioning process.Some C4 suppliers have called for the
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C4 orders doc on genital surgery
Channel 4 commissioning editor, science Dan Chambers has commissioned RDF Media to produce a series exploring genital operations, writes Penny Hughes.
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Mentorn wins C4 deals for ecology docs
Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) has secured two one-off commissions from Channel 4 including a film looking at the effects of climate change in the year 2050, write Colin Robertson and Jon Rogers.
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INTERVIEW: TIM GARDAM - An intellect to innovate at C4
Shy, gauche and anonymous are not the attributes you would expect from a Channel 4 director of programmes. But Tim Gardam's highbrow conversation, peppered with polysyllables and awkward aphorisms, is less
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C5 USES KIOSK MEDIA
Channel 5 is using kiosk media technology to add interactivity to its live Saturday morning kids show 5 Gets Out of its Box. The show, to tour Blackpool and Leeds in
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Radio First soccer station to air
Radio First is launching its first radio station dedicated to football fans this weekend to coincide with the start of the football season, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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FREE TO AIR - Digital needs proper funds
There's not a commercial broadcasting organisation in this country that is escaping the hardship prompted by the advertising slump. And digital niche players are bearing the real brunt of this, surrounded
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Alias explains cancellation at Siggraph
Alias Wavefront blamed 'severe economic restraints' for the cancellation of its user group conference at Siggraph this year following unsuccessful attempts to charge attendees a $200 (£140) fee, write Jo Scott and Barbara Marshall.
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LEADER - Is a new Saturday night all right?
ITV's decision to run 75 minutes of Premiership football highlights from 19.00 on Saturdays is either a bold move that demonstrates broadcasters can still innovate in these straitened, competitive times -
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BBC property plan approved
Media Secretary Tessa Jowell has approved the BBC's plan to hand over its central London properties to a private-sector developer in a£500m deal, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NEW EDITOR FOR APTN
News agency APTN has appointed MyMovies.net editor Nick Thomas as its entertainment editor. He is charged with overseeing the editorial content of the news agency's entertainment bulletins and programmes and will