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TAYLOR QUITS ITN.
ITN director of technology Ted Taylor is to become managing director of Panasonic Broadcast Europe in March. Taylor, who joined ITN in 1971, was responsible for the planning and installation of
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INTERVIEW - Retuning Virgin Radio.
Let it be crystal clear: Chris Evans will never play a Billie track on his breakfast show again.Unlike Evans' public and pecuniary support for Ken Livingstone last year, which led to
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Heartbeat still regular winner for Sunday nights.
There was a not-quite-back-at-work feel to the first week of 2001, with the end of the holidays, running into preliminary skirmishes over the new season.Sunday night (7 January) was the most
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OFF THE RECORD - Tweenies tread on hallowed toes.
The weird felty things for children, also known as the Tweenies, have apparently outsold Robbie Williams on their whirlwind tour of the UK.Their first single, Number One, outsold Madonna last year,
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JUST GROUP REPORTS.
Children's TV and licensing specialist company Just Group's pre-tax profits for the six months to end October 2000 rose by 64 per cent to£1.23m. Turnover was up from£6.2m to
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GRANADA JOBS TO GO.
Up to 60 jobs are set to go as part of Granada Media's integration of United's former education services, Anglia Campus and Anglia Multimedia, into Granada Learning. National curriculum online service
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GAME NETWORK TO OPEN STUDIOS IN LONDON.
Digital satellite games channel Game Network is to open studios in London in March to produce UK-originated content. The 24-hour, free-to-air channel, which is a subsidiary of European interactive outfit Digital
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ITV in talks with OK! to revive TV format.
OK!TV, ITV's axed former celebrity strand, could return to screens later this year after it emerged that ITV has reopened talks with OK! magazine owner Richard Desmond.Broadcast can reveal that ITV
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HOWARD LEAVES MARCHER TO JOIN WISH FM.
Kevin Howard, programme controller at the Marcher Radio Group, has been appointed as programme manager of the Wigan-based Wireless Group station Wish FM. From 5 February, Howard will be responsible for
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AND FINALLY ...
Annie Miles, managing director Fox Kids UK, on a major faux pas in a posh restaurantWhat was the biggest lie you've ever told?I'm just popping down to Bond Street to have
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WILD MAN EWAN.
Ewan McGregor is learning how to survive in a central American jungle as he films a new BBC Bristol production for BBC 1, writes Katy Elliott.
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New producer on Emmerdale.
Yorkshire Television has appointed a new Emmerdale producer, following Kieran Roberts departure to take up a wider brief in the company's drama department, writes Colin Robertson.
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Sky in election row.
BSkyB is expected to call for an independent commission to look into the proposition of a televised debate between the principal party leaders in the run-up to a general election.The move
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OFF THE RECORD - Edward, prince of pornography.
Channel 4 has unwittingly played a part in Prince Edward being named Hero of the Month by that bastion of freedom of speech, Hustler. In a recent edition, the porno mag
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MULTICHANNEL FILMS - Drowning by numbers.
New film channels on non-terrestrial television are launching all the time, yet even established players such as Sky Premier and Moviemax are reaching less than half a per cent of viewers in multichannel homes and Channel 4 's FilmFour, with a large marke
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GRANADA FILMING RICKY TOMLINSON DRAMA.
Granada's factual drama department has gone into production with two ITV projects. Comfort Zone, starring Ricky Tomlinson and Paul Reiser (Mad about You), is a 120-minute drama co-production with Showtime Networks
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Sunset + Vine forms new division in factual drive.
Sports specialist Sunset + Vine is widening its scope, forming a new division as part of a factual entertainment production drive, writes Rebecca Evans.
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Tell-Tale to diversify Tweenies product.
Elstree-based Tell-Tale Productions is in talks with BBC children's controller Nigel Pickard about producing spin-off shows from children's hit Tweenies, writes Tara Conlan.
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Diverse loses Haymarket web project.
Diverse Production is thought to have had to pull out of a significant new media project amid rumours the company would not have been able to deliver to the original brief, writes Lucy Rouse.
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DISCOVERY RESTRUCTURES.
Discovery Networks Europe has restructured into four divisions and is hunting for a new content chief, following the departure of UK general manager Nick Comer-Calder in December (Broadcast, 15.12.00). The four