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    ITV pushing ahead with Sky Digital

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    ITV executives are planning to launch the first stages of ITV's family of digital channels on Sky Digital by the end of next year, writes Colin Robertson.

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    ON THE BOX - Staying streets ahead

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    BBC News 24 presenter Christopher Morris loves Corrie's festive 40th but says we should Take a Girl Like You at face value.

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    White Paper Special - Paper fails to address all indie issues

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The 25 PER CENT independent production quota will not be scrapped but the white paper left unanswered a number of questions crucial to the indie sector, writes Ashley Davies.

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    White Paper Special - Ad agencies can own TV channels

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Advertising agencies could soon supply their own advertiser-funded programming via their own TV channels following the white paper's lifting of a ban on them owning broadcasting licences, writes Colin Robertson.

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    Legal action threatened in live radio row

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) is threatening legal action against the Radio Authority as it steps up its argument with the regulator over the issue of automation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    MTV FAILS TO AVERT STAFF ACTION WITH OFFER

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    An MTV offer intended to resolve an ongoing dispute over employment with its 70 broadcast services staff has failed to avert threats of legal action. MTV is understood to have made

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    Freedom and accountability

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The white paper published on Tuesday finally provides operators across the industry with a blueprint for their development next year - and the year after that until this white paper turns

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    SMITH AWARDED RADIO ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Independent Radio News chairman Terry Smith has been handed the industry's highest honour, a fellowship of the Radio Academy. Receiving his fellowship at a Savoy Hotel lunch ceremony, Smith said: 'All

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    White Paper Special - Anxiety over C5's PSB objectives

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 joint-owner RTL Group has expressed concern about the white paper's review of C5's public service obligations, writes Penny Hughes.

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    WILSON ORDERS 'SILLIONAIRE' FOR C5 ..

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 commissioning editor, children's and religious programming Nick Wilson has ordered a 1 x 20-minute broadcast pilot comedy show co-produced by indies Cheeky TV and Brilliant TV. Who Wants 2

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    422 TO MODERNISE

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    422 has dropped the colons and is positioning itself as 'more than just a television design company', according to chief creative Andy Davie-Coward, who added: 'It's a simpler, cleaner look. Those

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    White Paper Special - Another review for C4 remit

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has been saved from privatisation as predicted, but will have its remit reviewed for the second time in as many years, writes Ashley Davies.

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    ITC UPHOLDS COMPLAINTS ABOUT C4'S ANGEL

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission upheld 86 complaints from viewers about the adult tone of the fantasy drama Angel, which aired on Channel 4 in September and October. The commission ruled that

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    S4C PLANS WELSH ANSWER TO THE X-FILES

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Welsh broadcaster S4C has unveiled details of its new year's schedule. The backbone of the schedule is a 6 x 60-minute spine-chiller drama series called Arachnid, which is being made by

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    Edinburgh winners in E4 TV deal

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Kim Noble and Stuart Silver, whose Noble and Silver double act won them the Perrier Award for the best newcomers in Edinburgh this year, have signed a TV deal with E4, Channel 4's digital entertainment channel which launches on 18 January, writes Ashley D

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    GRIFFILMS MAKES S4C IDENTS

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Griffilms produced the on-screen Christmas idents for S4C. Animators Hywel Griffith, Dylan Jones and Eryl Jones based the sequences on drawings by the children of Maesybont primary school, animating them in

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    BBC SEEKS SCHEDULER FOR BBC 3 AND 4

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is currently interviewing to appoint a scheduler for planned digital channels BBC 3 and BBC 4. The two new schedulers will report to head of TV operations Mark Thomas

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    RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 26 NOVEMBER - Peak Practice overtakes Casualty after slow start

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    Like some sort of celestial eclipse, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'s first million-pound winner overshadowed the demise of Victor Meldrew.The result - 33 million people watching TV on a Monday

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    Thomson in£1.4bn Technicolor deal

    2000-12-15T00:00:00Z

    French electronics group Thomson Multimedia is to buy Technicolor in a deal which values the video and DVD processing and duplication business at around£1.4bn.Carlton Communications confirmed on Monday that it

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    Einstein Channel to blast off in January on Sky

    2000-12-14T15:52:00Z

    Digital science broadcaster Einstein Channel has set 25 January for its UK launch date on Sky Digital, writes David Wood.The channel, which is spending£1.5 million on its UK roll