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BBC LIFER'S FIRST TASTE OF COMMERCIAL TV
Mark Thompson, 44, is a BBC man through and through. Having started his career at the corporation in 1979 as a 22-year-old production trainee, he has remained there since, working his
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Lord Ryder is picked as BBC vice-chairman
The Government has appointed former Tory chief whip Lord Ryder of Wensum as vice-chairman of the BBC in a move that will offer some solace to critics of the corporation's Labour-supporting chairman Gavyn Davies, writes David Rose.
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BBC WOMEN GET GONGS
BBC Newsnight editor Sian Kevill has won a Carlton Women in Film & Television award for her contribution to news and current affairs. Kevill, who is overseeing a major review of
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BBC makes strong showing in shortlist
The Blue Planet, My Family and Banzai are all on the shortlist for Broadcast's best new programme award this year, and, for the first time, readers are being asked to vote
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Lynx boosts facilities with sound suite
Post-production house Lynx Digital has added another sound suite to its facilities in Denham, outside west London, writes Lucy Rouse.
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ON THE BOX - The horrible truth
Channel 4 head of science and education Sara Ramsden was delighted by Alistair McGowan but not onetime comedy god Steve Coogan.
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CREATIVE - News in brief
Hobbins Sides has developed the on-air identity and graphic design package for new digital television channel Thomas Cook TV. Working closely with the in-house graphics team at Enteraction.tv, the channel's producer,
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BROWN DEPARTS YTV
Yorkshire TV executive producer, entertainment Jim Brown has left the company following Granada's decision to focus its entertainment output in London and Manchester. Brown's departure follows a string of setbacks including
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TWI to launch European sport channel
Indie TWI is ramping up its production base in London to service the launch of an archive-based, pan-European sports channel with US broadcaster ESPN, writes Steve Aston.
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ITV stars lead Saturday night ratings charge
ITV bounced back to form this Saturday as the side-effects of trying to ram The Premiership into a Blind Date-shaped hole began to wear off.The progress of the early evening Pop
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WEAKEST LINK CHINA
Weakest Link is set to be screened in China from February following a deal between UK-based distributor ECM and advertising company MindWorks. MindWorks plans to produce a Mandarin version of the
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CINTEL PROMOTES WELSH
Cintel has promoted Adam Welsh, who has been with the company for 18 years, to become its managing director. Welsh, a former president of Cintel's US business, will help oversee the
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RATINGS - Viewers warmed to Cold Feet down under
Sunshine frolics in Sydney Harbour from the cast of Cold Feet proved more of a pull than the maverick musings of Judge John Deed this week, writes Ellie White.
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RTL/TEAMTALK DEAL DONE
TeamTalk Media Group has finalised its deal with RTL to buy 80 per cent of Atlantic 252.Talks between the two groups were finalised last Tuesday (4 December) for the£2m stake
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TX - The devil you know
When writer Andrew Davies first talked to ITV about doing a modern adaptation of a Shakespeare play, it was The Tempest that was uppermost in his mind.By his own admission, the
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Govt to review digi spectrum
The Government has this week invited comments on the future of spectrum for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) over a three-month consultation period.The move follows publication of a digital action plan by
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Thompson faces immediate test
After some last-minute discussion of a surprise candidate from AOL Time Warner in the US, the Channel 4 board appeared to have taken the most obvious and cheaper option after Endemol
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - WINCHESTER PURCHASE
Production company Winchester Entertainment has bought its creative partner Optical Image, a leading provider of facilities in the Midlands. The two companies have worked together on Jellabies (Jellikins in the UK)
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NEW TROUBLE IDENTS
Flextech creative services has created a new series of idents for youth channel Trouble to air from 1 January. Commissioned by creative director Kerry Taylor, the idents feature MCs from a