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    TIVO GAINS SKY BOOST

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    BSkyB has teamed up with NBC and Discovery to take a£36m stake in personal video recorder (PVR) manufacturer Tivo. Sky, which this week launched its own PVR service, Sky +,

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    CARRIAGES DEALS BOOST EUROSPORTNEWS

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Eurosport has closed two UK carriage deals for its new pan-European 24-hour sports news channel Eurosportnews. The channel launched this week on Sky Digital and will also launch on Telewest Active

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    NHS to boost health TV firm

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Channel Health is to launch the government's third digital TV health proposition next month, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Ex-BBC boss joins Zenith

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Zenith Entertainment has appointed former BBC finance director Rodney Baker-Bates as its new chairman, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    TOP CNN BOSS LEAVES

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    CNN News Group president and chief operating officer Philip Kent has resigned. His departure comes two months after Time Inc editorial director Walter Isaacson was named CNN chairman and chief executive.

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    Gullane poaches Disney boss

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Gullane Entertainment has poached Walt Disney International senior vice-president of programming and creative development David Snyder to oversee the company's global production, distribution and development activity, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Lion braces for new pastures

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Lion TV is planning to diversify its portfolio with a move into entertainment programmes and is searching to fill a new head of entertainment role, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    ITV BRANDED 'RISK'

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Investment bank Gold-man Sachs has branded ITV Digital as 'high risk' for Carlton and Granada and suggested scrapping the DTT operation. The move would improve both firms' financial outlook, according to

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    Report calls for IT skills training

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasters need to open up their teaching facilities to third parties to prepare workers for the changing demands of the information age, according to the industry's leading training body, writes Katy Elliott.

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    Living caters to chefs and stars

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Flextech women's channel Living TV has commissioned three new series including a 20-part cookery show described as 'The Odd Couple meets Can't Cook, Won't Cook'.Ordered by Living commissioning editor Jane Millichip,

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    Leader - Should channels release rights?

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    In a sophisticated, garrulous industry such as broadcasting, debate ebbs and flows between landmark speeches and events throughout the year.The industry is about to face another such landmark, as the RTS

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    CHINESE CORONATION STREET SET FOR FACELIFT

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Granada is to refresh the format of Joy Luck Street, the Chinese version of its soap Coronation Street. The programme is to be made less 'aspirational' to appeal to a broader

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    Staff at White City vote for Tesco Metro

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    BBC staff have inadvertently boosted the fortunes of one of the UK's biggest retailers by voting overwhelmingly for a Tesco supermarket to be the sole retail concern at the corporation's new£300m media village, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Police line closes in on footage

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Television programmes that include police and CCTV camera footage are becoming increasingly difficult to make because of rising levels of red tape and police demands on producers, a number of indies

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    TX - Submerged in comedy

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    When Armando Iannucci left the BBC, teamed up with Talkback and defected to Channel 4, he didn't want to do the same old satire on a different channel. Instead he decided

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    WORLD CUP INQUIRY

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading is considering whether to launch a full-scale investigation into claims that the BBC and ITV have acted as a cartel during the ongoing sale of TV

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    Smash Hits in digital push

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    EMAP Performance Network (EPN) is planning to further extend its Smash Hits brand by launching a digital radio channel early next year, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    GUNN DOUBLES STAKE

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Entrepreneur and venture capitalist John Gunn has more than doubled his stake in media group West 175 to a 10.9 per cent share. West 175, which produces Master Chef, formed a

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    Granada drops Platforms

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    Granada has scrapped the Platforms label it unveiled just three months ago as part of its restructure, writes Steve Aston.

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    Endemol UK's status strip worries indies

    2001-09-07T00:00:00Z

    The independent sector fears the ecology of broadcasting will be threatened if Endemol Entertainment UK loses business as a result of its loss of indie status, writes Georgina Lipscomb.