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    Marsh leaves BBC Birmingham

    2000-12-18T11:12:00Z

    Head of lifestyle and features to quit corporation after less than eighteen months in job

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    Shockwave.com buys AtomFilms as online entertainment shows further contraction

    2000-12-18T10:36:00Z

    Macromedia-owned online entertainment outfit Shockwave.com is to buy AtomFilms in a deal that illustrates further rapid consolidation in the online entertainment industry, writes David Wood.While AtomFilms but a brave face

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    Channel 4 signs exclusive Popworld deal

    2000-12-18T10:04:00Z

    Pop brand to provide programming for terrestrial and digital channels

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    AtomFilms to merge with Shockwave.com to form global entertainment outfit

    2000-12-18T09:52:00Z

    Two leading online entertainment companies AtomFilms and Shockwave.com have merged to create what they claim is the world's largest 'next-generation' entertainment outfit, writes David Wood.The deal, brokered last week, will

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    BBC Breakfast editor quits for sports role

    2000-12-15T15:35:00Z

    Thompson to join Salmon in re-positioning of BBC sport as speculation on launch of BBC sports channel continues

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    Megalomedia to sell Framestore and CFC

    2000-12-15T13:10:00Z

    Framestore founders Reed and Sargent to buy businesses for new company Guidedraw

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    talkSPORT has licence renewed

    2000-12-15T11:25:00Z

    New financial deal will help the station 'move faster towards breakeven'

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    Digital channels to take on Sky over high cost of interactive launches

    2000-12-15T11:00:00Z

    A group of digital TV channels is set to lobby the Office of Fair Trading over the cost of launching interactive services on Sky's digital platform, writes David Wood.Channel heads

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    White Paper Special - Ofcom named as watchdog

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    As expected, the white paper outlined the details of a new single regulatory body for the communications industry, with two divisions, to deal with economic and content issues, writes Penny Hughes.

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    White Paper Special - MPs welcome Smith proposals

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    MPs have reacted favourably to the communications white paper although their questions in the Commons on Tuesday (12 December) revealed anxiety over the strength of regional TV and the BBC.Shadow media

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    SOLID STATE MD TO QUIT

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Solid State Logic (SSL) managing director John Jeffery is to step down from 1 January and will be replaced by Colin Pringle, who is currently group marketing director. Pringle joined SSL

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    MANUFACTURER MOVES

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    A number of recent appointments have been made at manufacturers and their resellers. Jayson Chase has quit Tyrell to join the Root 6 sales team. He will be replaced in January

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    Lookalikes

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Get satisfaction from the rockin' similarities between these two hardcore party animals, Granada Creative chair Andrea Wonfor and Rolling Stones bass player Ronnie Wood. While one has more groupies than most

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    Millionaire or weakest link?

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    So you want to be a TV executive? Do you know what the main events of the year were in broadcasting? The demands of broadband or the 22.00 news move debacle?

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    White Paper Special - ITN and Sky in limbo over news

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    A lack of clarity on the rules over ITV's nominated news provider in the white paper has left both ITN and Sky News in limbo over the ITV news contract, write Lucy Rouse and Simon Ellery.

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    Restructure leads to job losses at Itel

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Granada International this week unveiled its restructure following its merger with former United News & Media distribution arm Itel in the first swathe of a number of planned changes.As predicted by

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    Granada Media to merge sports

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Granada Media has stepped up its plans to dominate the UK commercial television content market by unveiling its own dedicated sports department.The company is rebranding its recently acquired United Sport division

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    Johnson joins Granada Sky

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Former Granada lifestyle head of production Lesley Johnson is joining Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) in a newly created role as head of production, writes Colin Robertson.

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    White Paper Special - Government mulls spectrum pricing

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Government aims to value broadcasting spectrum for the first time, in a move that could see a change in the way broadcasters pay for the privilege of using the space, writes Katy Elliott.

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    Rights money to fund grass roots sport

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The European Council (EC) has decided that sporting bodies should contribute fixed percentages of the proceeds of the sale of their broadcast rights to developing grass roots sport, writes John Lewis.