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    RATINGS - C5 gains comic victory over C4's Hood hunt

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 film Six Days and Seven Nights gained a higher peaktime share than Channel 4 this week, writes Jon Rogers.

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    5D TO UNVEIL CYBORG

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    5D will expose its new playback/output system, Cyborg (Commander), to the European market at this year's IBC. Developed in association with leading film facilities in LA and London, Cyborg (Commander) provides

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    Viewers welcome back Home and Away on C5

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    It was a red-letter week for Channel 5 as Home and Away returned to British television (Monday 18.00). With an audience of 2.25 million and 14 per cent share it fell

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    Shortlist reached for access radio

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    THE RADIO Authority has shortlisted 15 contenders for its access radio pilot scheme, after receiving more than 200 letters of intent, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    AFRICAN FOOTBALL PLAN

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is considering covering the biennial African Cup of Nations as part of a plan to beef up its football coverage. The corporation says the tournament, which takes place in

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    TalkSport set to air opt-outs

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Authority has given national speech radio station TalkSport permission to air separate opt-outs in Scotland and Northern Ireland for three hours a day, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    FREE TO AIR - Conspiracy of self-interest

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    There are certain defining moments in the relationship between state and media, whether it is the Oz trial, Death on the Rock or even the Sex Pistols saying 'shit' - and

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    Pact allays quota fears

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Producers' Alliance Pact this week moved to reassure indies that feared the BBC's independent production quota was at stake by insisting that keeping the quota was still a core plank of

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    GO RACING ALTERS LOOK

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Horseracing consortium Go Racing, comprising BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, has unveiled its new company name and logo as At The Races - the former name was unavailable as a

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Big fish and small fry

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Not all independent television production companies are the same size, nor do they have the same ambitions, but how can the rise of the so-called super-indies help bolster the competitive position of their smaller brethren?

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    Fast native editor arrives

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    German software company Fast Multimedia is to debut its native digital editor Blue at IBC in September, more than four years after the product was first announced, writes Dominic Timms.

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    Off the Record - Avid sales on

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Avid Technology, purveyor of fine edit systems and graphics stations, has been on the sales war path again in Cliff Richard-stylee with a bright red double-decker demo bus. Rather than being,

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    BBC PLANS LONDON BASE

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The BBC has unveiled plans for the£400m redevelopment of Broadcasting House as the new home of network radio, news and the World Service. The proposals include erecting a new building

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    World Service wants One BBC

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    BBC World Service director Mark Byford wants to increase co-operation between the Foreign Office-funded unit and the licence fee-funded BBC and raise the profile of the radio network within the UK, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    BBC plans temp chair

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Gavyn Davies may have to step in as a BBC caretaker chairman while media secretary Tessa Jowell delays making a permanent appointment to consult the new Tory leader, writes David Rose.

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    Horizons raids BBC for editor

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    UKTV has poached BBC 2 head of scheduling and planning Liam Keelan to become editor of its factual channel, UK Horizons, writes Simon Ellery.

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    BBC still leads in daytime

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    ITV is still losing the battle for daytime viewers to the BBC, writes Steve Aston.

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    BBC staff urged to shun review

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    The National Union of Journalists and Bectu have called on BBC staff to boycott their annual appraisal interviews as part of the continuing dispute over the corporation's pay and reward structure, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Granada poaches Carlton boss

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Carlton Communications commercial director Tom Betts has been poached by ITV partner Granada to strengthen its business development department, writes Simon Ellery.

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    X-MEN SERIES BOUGHT BY CARTOON NETWORK

    2001-08-10T00:00:00Z

    Cartoon Network UK has bought the latest 26 x 30-minute series of X-Men from Warner Bros. The series takes a new look at the characters as they 'learn to control their