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FIVE LIVE NEWS HIRES
New BBC Radio Five Live head of news Ceri Thomas has made a clutch of appointments across the station's daily news strands. Simon Mayo editor Sali Collins is to become editor
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NO FOOTBALL STRIKE
The Premier League and the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) have struck a deal to avert a damaging footballers' strike which would have hit ITV and BSkyB sports coverage. The deal sees
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Platform Post gains investors
Two Welsh facility companies have put money into new Soho graphics and post-production house Platform Post, writes Barbara Marshall.Barcud Derwen and Mwnci have each taken a one-third share in the new
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GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
The advertising market is down across Europe, but smaller TV markets with less developed commercial television are feeling less of a pinch, writes Kate Bulkley.
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PAINTBOX GOES HD
Quantel has released details of a high definition version of its graphics package Paintbox. Paintbox HR, which will ship in the first quarter of next year, is based on the firm's
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Green Inc nets three orders
Northern Ireland-based independent Green Inc Productions has received three new commissions, including two from BBC Northern Ireland.BBC Northern Ireland head of programming Tim Cooke has ordered 4 x 30-minute factual-led entertainment
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INTERVIEW - Growing new wings
Chief executive Mick Pilsworth presided over a difficult restructuring at Chrysalis TV Group. Now he hopes Richard & Judy will continue to drive group profits.
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ITV SHIFTS SHAFTED
ITV has pulled new Robert Kilroy-Silk gameshow Shafted from its 20.30 slot after only three episodes. The move has been attributed to strategic scheduling at the network in order to provide
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Soap viewer ratings reach record levels
The Resurrection of Crossroads, the launch of ITV's new early evening soap Night and Day and an additional weekly episode of EastEnders have pushed up soap viewing to record levels in 2001, writes David Wood.
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TRADE TALK - Plugging losses
Mark Brandon's appointment as head of the loss-making Channel 4 interactive signals a seachange in favour of a more commercial approach.
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OPS MANAGER TO MOKEY
IS Distribution, which distributes software tool Mokey, has appointed Sarah Porter as operations manager. Porter has held the same role at distributor/ reseller Red Lorry Yellow Lorry since it was formed
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IN MY VIEW - Mark Rowland
On how entertainment value and educational potential now make interactivity irresistible.
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Portman sold to MBO team
TV and media company PrimeEnt has offloaded its wholly owned subsidiary Portman Entertainment for£1.2m following a management buyout, writes Simon Ellery.
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Rolling review set for media owners
The Government wants to make it easier for broadcasters to adapt to changing market conditions by reviewing media ownership rules every two years, but has ruled out allowing non-EU companies to
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MTV STILL IN TALKS
Telewest was still in discussions with MTV over carriage costs as Broadcast went to press. The two companies are struggling to agree on a pay structure for MTV's channels, for which
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New slots for Open Uni
The BBC has appointed a new creative director with responsibility for its Open University (OU) output in order to push more programming into peaktime, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Prebble pledges regional spend targets
ITV chief executive Stuart Prebble has offered an olive branch to critics who claim the network's commissioning process is too 'metro-centric' by pledging to spend almost half of ITV's production budget outside London, writes Steve Aston.
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Talking of thumbs up arses, it will probably come as no surprise to those in indie-land to hear Channel 4 drama darling Tessa Ross admit she doesn't do very much. Speaking
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Royal Variety gives ITV1 peak-time crown
Cilla, Babs and company pull in 11 million viewers helping ITV1 to a precious peak-time victory over BBC1
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Royal Variety helps give ITV1 peak-time crown
Cilla, Babs and company pull in 11 million viewers helping ITV1 to a precious peak-time victory over BBC1