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BBC GETS OSCAR RIGHTS
The BBC has scooped the rights to the Oscars and the Baftas after current holder BSkyB decided not to bid for them. Sky has had exclusive coverage of the Oscars since
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BBC UPS SOMALI NEWS
The BBC World Service is stepping up its Somali language programming in response to the current war against terrorism.
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TWI WINS FRENCH HORSE-RACING RIGHTS FOR BBC
TWI has brokered a deal to place events from the French horse-racing season on the BBC. The corporation has signed a five-year deal with France's flat race and steeplechase promoter France
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ON THE BOX - Theroux the keyhole
Sparks flew When Louis Met the Hamiltons, says BBC head of development, drama serials Sarah Brown, but Blind Date is past its sell-by.
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BRAVO ED PROMOTED
Bravo channel editor Matthew Paice is to become acting controller of Flextech-owned channels Bravo and Trouble when Trouble channel editor Heather Jones takes maternity leave. Trouble programming executive Louise Benham becomes
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FOLIO GETS LONDON FIRE BRIGADE COMMISSION
Folio Productions, the factual specialist arm of the Mentorn Group, has been commissioned to make a new series about the London Fire Brigade's specialist investigations unit for BBC 1. The as-yet
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Turner's Buckley quits
Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS) Europe executive vice-president news networks and UK managing director Mick Buckley has become the latest senior industry figure to quit his job for a career break, writes Simon Ellery.
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LNR BUYERS EMERGE
A Chrysalis-led consortium has emerged as the frontrunner to buy London News Radio stations, according to sources. Others who are said to be interested are Express Newspapers owner Richard Desmond, The
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CAPITAL'S CAT AND EDITH GO COUNTRYWIDE
Capital 95.8 FM show Cat and Edith's Hit Music Sunday is to roll out across the country next year on Capital Radio's network of stations. The programme, currently broadcasting between 14.00
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CITY WATCH - Carlton sees light at end of tunnel
In the past year and a half Carlton Communications has seen its pre-tax profits dive 40 per cent and its share price plunge. But the ITV licensee has responded with cost-cutting and disposals to improve its position.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - FrameStore merges with CFC
Digital effects specialist FrameStore and the Computer Film Company (CFC) have merged to form Framestore CFC, writes Barbara Marshall.
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CHANNEL TV SOLD
ITV shareholder Channel Television has been bought for around£20m by Illiffe News & Media, a company owned by Lord Illiffe of Yattenden. The sale followed the buyout of the company
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US CHANNEL TNN RECOMMISSIONS ROBOT WARS
US cable channel TNN - owned by Viacom - has recommissioned Mentorn format Robot Wars for a second 13 x 60-minute series next year. The first series, screened this autumn, was
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Cheap digital radio a hit
A trial period in which cut-price digital radio sets were offered for under£100 has resulted in huge demand from consumers, according to the Digital Radio Development Bureau (DRDB), writes Luke Satchell.
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DIGITAL LICENCE FOR SRH
The Radio Authority has awarded the local digital multiplex licence for Inverness to the sole applicant, Score Digital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Scottish Radio Holdings. Score Digital proposes to launch
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DISNEY HIRES SMITH
The Walt Disney Company has hired former media secretary Chris Smith as a senior advisor ahead of the planned launch of the BBC's two children's channels. Smith, who started this month,
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INTERVIEW - Getting factual right
BBC factual and learning co-director Glenwyn Benson is banking on risk-taking and interactivity to restore the morale of a department hit by job losses and a reduction in orders.
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OFF THE RECORD - Tasty geezer gives us the trembles
Broadcast isn't often associated with tasty geezers, gangland bosses and big men who call their mum 'duchess', but it's amazing who turns up at our parties. While you expect Ant, Dec
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Strong growth for satellite TV
Satellite TV take-up continues to outgun cable, with 1.12 million consumers having opted to take pay-TV services through a dish over the past 12 months compared with 310,000 cable subscribers, according to the latest Independent Television Commission quar
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ITN REDUNDANCIES
ITN has accepted 75 applications for voluntary redundancy in its bid to axe around 90 jobs. The news provider, which has been consulting staff over job losses since November, met with