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OLDHAM FILM IN DOCK
The BBC, Sky News and Granada are fighting a legal battle this week to block a police call to hand over their video footage of the Oldham riots. As Broadcast went
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TRADE TALK - IN MY VIEW - Samir Shah, managing director of Juniper
On the thorny issues that surround media coverage of the recent riots in Oldham.
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DIGITAL TV DRIVE
BSkyB and ITV Digital have joined forces with British Telecom in a marketing initiative to boost digital TV uptake by exploiting BT's customer base.BT's 20 million residential customers will be offered
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Plea for unity over NHS digital TV
The Department of Health has asked the four broadcasters and production companies involved in its£5m NHS digital TV project to work together to create a universal proposition, writes Simon Ellery.
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WORLDWIDE DELAYED
The long-awaited review into BBC Worldwide has been further delayed, with an announcement now expected at the end of the week. A spokeswoman told Broadcast that final approval on a press
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FAWLTY GERMAN DEAL
A German version of John Cleese comedy Fawlty Towers is to be made after BBC Worldwide completed a deal with broadcaster RTL. A pilot episode is due to finish filming on
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Flextech signs Talkback deal
Flextech has struck a deal with Talkback Productions - maker of They Think It's All Over and Never Mind The Buzzcocks - for a new weekly music quiz series.The Pearson-owned producer
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Festival D-day for Jowell
The BBC is expected to learn if it can go ahead with its planned new TV and radio services at the Edinburgh International Television Festival next month.Media secretary Tessa Jowell is
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COUP FOR RED PEPPER
Red Pepper ID has staged a major design coup by winning the contract to rebrand Chinese State Television (CCTV), writes Barbara Marshall.
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TV Set in co-production search
Facility group The Television Set (TV Set) is stepping up its search for co-production opportunities following the success of its documentary Coconut Revolution which it co-funded with Stampede, writes Barbara Marshall.
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Murdoch to speak at RTS conference
News Corp chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch and Liberty Media chairman John Malone are to tackle the global issues that face the UK broadcasting industry at the Royal Television Society's Cambridge Conference in September, writes Simon Ellery.
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COMMUNICOPIA DEAL
Brighton-based indie Communicopia, which produced programming for failed consumer financial service The Money Channel, has offered its sacked 80-strong workforce around£500 each to tide them over before they receive any
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ISAACSON IN AT CNN
CNN has named Time Inc editorial director and veteran news executive Walter Isaacson as chairman and chief executive replacing Tom Johnson who quit last week. Isaacson, 49, has already started and
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Channels unite on ship hunt
Channel 4, ITN and US broadcaster PBS have joined forces to fund a£2m expedition to search for the wreck of British Navy ship HMS Hood, sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in 1941, writes Penny Hughes.
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SMG TV takes on Celador producer
SMG TV Productions is attempting to reinvigorate its entertainment department with the appointment of Celador producer Rob Clark as the company's first head of entertainment, writes Simon Ellery.
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INDIE FINANCE - Cautious strides for Scottish Indie
Slow but meaningful growth is now prompting Ideal World to venture beyond factual programming into new areas as it nurtures its film subsidiary, moves into rights ownership and sets up an online presence. Ed Shelton reports.
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THIS LONDON TO EXPLORE CAPITAL FOR LWT
LWT is to screen a 6 x 30-minute series looking at the lives of Londoners. This London will be shown weekly in an early evening slot from next month. Among topics
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Cactus woos This Morning editor Smith
Cactus TV has lured former This Morning editor Karen Smith to become editor of its new Channel 4 Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan vehicle, writes Steve Aston.
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CABLE VIEWING SURVEY
Viewers in cable and satellite homes are more attentive TV watchers with an increased tendency to sit through commercial breaks, according to a BSkyB-backed survey by BMRB out this week. Programme
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CA calls for info push on digital
The Consumers' Association (CA) this week called on the government to come up with a public information campaign to step up efforts to drive analogue switch-off, writes Penny Hughes.