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US sticks with its own digital TV system.
The US has again turned its back on the European-designed digital TV system that is being adopted worldwide, in favour of its own system that is widely believed to be inferior, writes Nick Radlo.
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Mortimer's 'sweetheart' deal.
BBC deputy controller of documentaries and investigations, David Mortimer, has been given a 'sweetheart' deal, including commissioning powers in a bid to keep him at the corporation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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RADIO FIRST SIGNS DIGITAL DEAL WITH DERBY FC.
Digital radio broadcast company Radio First has signed a joint-venture agreement with Derby County football club to launch a digital radio station.Radio First and the club will each hold 50 per
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DAVIES' SPORTING ROLE.
London-based TV sports specialist Sportsworld Europe has named former At It Productions head of production Lesley Davies as European head of production. Davies, whose credits include Pozzitive TV's Dinner-ladies and At
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Coup for SMG Production.
SMG's ailing production department has finally secured a new drama head, plus four new drama and factual executives, writes Colin Robertson.
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NEWS COMPLAINT REJECTED.
BBC governors have rejected ITN's complaint about supplying BBC News online content to Yahoo! and BT Openworld. The governors' quarterly Fair Trading Bulletin claimed this week the BBC is not in
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Play TV editor quits to focus on comedy.
Play UK channel editor Myfanwy Moore has left the Flextech and BBC joint-venture channel to concentrate on her other role as BBC new comedy and entertainment editor, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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RAJ IN COLOUR.
TWI and Carlton have teamed up again for a new instalment of their award-winning ... in Colour strand - a three-part series for ITV on the British Empire, writes Colin Robertson.
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CHEAPER DIGIBETA.
Digital Video Systems (DVS) has developed a high-end computer that emulates a DigiBeta recorder at a third of the price. Offering up to 1.5 hours uncompressed storage, the DigiEmulator is compatible
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Virgin dumps chart for older music.
Virgin Radio has banned girl and boy bands from its play list in an attempt to refocus on 'musically disenfranchised' 30 to 40 year-olds and clearly distinguish itself from other stations, writes Katy Elliott.
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SHACKLETON CASH DEAL.
US cable channel A&E has agreed to co-finance Shackleton, a Channel 4 drama about the British explorer, with C4 International. C4I also said that, as predicted in Broadcast (21.7.00), Kenneth Branagh
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GOVT CALLS WITNESSES.
The Commons media select committee began its investigation into the communications white paper on Thursday (25 January). Chaired by Gerald Kaufman, its first witnesses were the National Consumer Council, British Telecom
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GTV unveils plan for 'broadband factory'.
Granada Television (GTV) is stripping network production from its lifestyle department as part of a plan to create a broadband factory, making high-volume, low-cost programming.The move is a reversal of a
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BRITS GO TO BUDDAH.
Radio indie Wise Buddah, headed by managing director Stephen Mulholland, has secured an agreement, for the sixth year running, to be the exclusive international radio distribution partner of the British Phonographic
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WRIGHT'S BRIGHT FUTURE.
Former footballer Ian Wright has signed an exclusive, two-year presenting contract with the BBC. He will work on a range of BBC 1 entertainment programmes and will front Friends Like These,
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THOMPSON GIVES BRIEFINGS.
The BBC is hosting two briefing days next week in which director of TV Mark Thompson, the channel controllers and genre commissioners will outline the different channel requirements and what each
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BLACK HUMOUR SHOW.
Channel 4 has signed up David Upshaw, who made The Hip Hop Years (above), to series produce a series about the history of black comedy, writes Ashley Davies.
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SEARCH IS ON FOR FOR THE UK'S RADIO BIGWIGS.
The Radio Academy is taking votes for the 100 most important people in the UK radio and music industries, in preparation for the 2001 Music Radio conference. Votes can be registered
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Consortium to bid for ITV news.
BSKYB has assembled a consortium of TV allies to try and snatch ITN's£40m-a-year news supply contract with ITV from next year.The satellite giant's latest plan to wrestle business away from
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GMTV outdoes its new-look BBC rival.
The new-look GMTV has consistently beaten the BBC's Breakfast in the three months since the corporation relaunched its breakfast news programme as a three-hour show, hosted by Jeremy Bowen and Sophie Raworth, writes Katy Elliott.