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Autodesk results
Autodesk's revenue for 2000 was up by more than $50m (£35m) on the previous year and not down as was erroneously stated in Broadcast last week.
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Avid's VP Davies quits post early
Avid Technology international vice-president Peter Davies has resigned from the US technology firm just months before he was due to officially retire.Davies, who has spent the past nine years at Avid,
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Older viewers turn away from multichannel
Viewers over the age of 65 - the heaviest consumers of television - are watching less multichannel TV than they were five years ago, writes Katy Elliott.
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Bazalgette to give RTS memorial lecture
Endemol Entertainment UK creative director Peter Bazalgette has been confirmed as the speaker for this year's Royal Television Society Huw Wheldon Memorial Lecture. The lecture, entitled 'Big Brother and Beyond', will
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'Super indies' push for reduction in BBC quota
A number of 'super indies' are lobbying members of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) to reduce the BBC's statutory indie quota in return for releasing more rights.On 18
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BBC kids' production split
The BBC's replacement for axed Saturday morning kids show Live & Kicking will be produced in both Scotland and London, although the look of the programme will stay the same, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC wins rugby role
The BBC has beaten off competition from three unnamed independent production companies to produce S4C's rugby coverage for the next two years. The contract, which comes into effect immediately, covers live
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CRCA ops director leaves for BBC new media
Commercial Radio Companies Association operations director Rachell Fox has quit the organisation to join BBC new media. The radio body has appointed Alison Winter as research and communications manager. Winter was
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Fashion returns to BBC
The BBC is to venture back into fashion television with a new series featuring 'real people and their wardrobes', three years after flagship strand The Clothes Show was axed, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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BBC Radio digital move
BBC Radio and Music is to implement a digital play-out system from the German company VCS to handle both programme production and transmission on a number of its radio channels. The
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Bids in place for ITV news
The Challenger for the lucrative ITV news contract, Channel 3 News, is understood to have undercut the price of current supplier ITN's contract by several million in its tender document submitted to the network this week, writes Simon Ellery.
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My TV launch boast
My TV Network, the restricted service licence TV licensee based in Portsmouth, claimed this week to have secured£59,800 from advertising and sponsorship since its launch at the beginning of June.
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LNN boosts factual programming
LNN Factuals Network has secured a host of new programmes for the London region. LWT has commissioned three factual series including 16 x 30-minute travel series Dream Ticket, 30-minute magazine show
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Granada completes Border buy
Granada has added to its ITV empire by completing its purchase of Border TV for£50.5m, writes Steve Aston.
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On the box - Driving Miss Crazy
Phil Dolling, executive producer of BBC 1's Space, waxes lyrical about Ruby, while Survivor's Final tests viewer endurance.
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TV management - Television's brain drain
With indies offering more creative opportunities, higher salaries and greater job security, top executive jobs with broadcasters are no longer the glittering prizes they once were. james curtis reports on TV's growing dearth of management talent.
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Brass Eye reaction
Channel 4 this week prompted a national debate about the fraught subject of paedophilia just weeks before chief executive Michael Jackson leaves the station amid charges of excessive commercialism. Proving that
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Yes TV gets rights to Robbie and Britney
Yes Television, which pipes programming to 400 viewers in north London, has struck a deal with music video rights outfit Music Mall for videos of artists ranging from Robbie Williams to
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Capital launches online dance station
Capital Interactive has launched Capital Radio show Dancemasters as a new online dance station, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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CBBC to tackle foot and mouth
The devastating effect that foot and mouth disease can wreak on children in rural communities is to be highlighted in a new hard-hitting drama commissioned by the BBC's kids department, CBBC.Out