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Digital target may be too low.
The government is coming under fresh pressure to rethink its strategy of turning off analogue television signals once 95 per cent of the viewing public have digital services.The National Consumer Council
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Disney plans radio offensive.
Disney is stepping up its long-term ambition to enter the UK radio market and is understood to be poised to sign a joint-venture with Capital Radio to launch a Disney-branded digital radio station, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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OFF THE RECORD - The dregs of fame.
A German radio station seems to have been left with the dregs, so to speak, when it comes to self-promotion. According to the Daily Star, DJs from the Elins Live radio
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POLITICAL ED FOR WALES.
BBC Wales has appointed Ashok Ahir as managing editor political programmes. Ahir was formerly senior broadcast journalist on Wales Today. He has spent his entire career at BBC Wales, starting out
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ENDEMOL'S INITIAL TO FILM TENOR WATSON.
Endemol UK production arm Initial is to film the open-air concert performed by British tenor Russell Watson on 6 February in New Zealand for PBS in the US and TVNZ in
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MPC to expand films.
The Moving Picture Company is to double the size of its feature film department with the creation of 50 new jobs, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MYCREATIVE MERGER.
Creative consultancy MyCreative, formerly known as Myriad, has merged with marketing consultancy the Big Group, writes Barbara Marshall. The team of seven has joined the Big Group's Holland Park office, while
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - PINNACLE POSTS LOSS.
Pinnacle Systems has reported a quarterly increase in net sales, gross margins, net income and cashflow compared with the previous quarter. However, despite a 26 per cent rise in sales to
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NDS SUBSCRIBERS UP.
The number of set-top boxes using NDS technology reached 27.3 million, up 1.6 million in the quarter ended 31 December 2001, according to NDS Group's latest results. Revenues for the period
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - SKARAMOOSH HIRING.
Skaramoosh has taken on senior compositor Zave Jackson from Tyrell, as well as former Refinery/Aldis Animation DS artist Aries Brooker.
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LEADER - Fair trading must rule the roost.
One fact of life in the world of regulation is that industry responses to government proposals always seem to be more about the immediate competitive pressures that face individual organisations, rather
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AND FINALLY ...
Peter Good, Channel 4 head of enhanced TV, on what not to say in interviews for jobs in banks.
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POPSTARS PRODUCER HIT BY FIRST HALF LOSSES.
Sportsworld, which co-owns the rights to Popstars, has seen its shares plummet after issuing a profits warning. The inter-national producer, which relies heavily on sponsorship of its television programmes and sports
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Home & Leisure focuses on men.
Discovery Home & Leisure has ordered 130 hours of programming to help shore up its position in the men's lifestyle market.Commissioned by Discovery Home & Leisure director of programmes Katy Thorogood,
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Scottish TV jobs go at SMG.
SMG IS asking 18 staff from its Scottish TV business to take voluntary redundancy in a move it hopes will be the last job-cutting exercise at the station, writes Steve Aston.
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ZHIVAGO GREENLIGHT.
Granada has secured E-vision (Epsilon TV Productions) and WGBH Boston as co-producers for its forthcoming ITV epic Doctor Zhivago, which begins filming in the Czech Republic next month. The film will
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NETWORK X HIRES.
BBC news has announced its first two senior appointments for digital radio Network X's news bulletins. BBC Radio 1 news editor Rod McKenzie has been appointed as news editor, a position
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RA's Hooper wants new rule.
Radio Authority chairman Richard Hooper is lobbying for a new cross-media ownership rule which could lead to a national newspaper being allowed to own a national terrestrial TV channel, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Industry weighs up media plans.
Producers' alliance Pact has called on the government to establish a code of practice to balance the competing interests of broadcasters and independent producers.Pact claimed such a code - which it
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INTERACTIVE PANORAMA.
BBC 1 current affairs strand Panorama is to launch its first live interactive TV debate when its new series starts on Sunday (3 February). Digital satellite viewers will be able to