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Scrapheap goes to LA
RDF Media is to close its Bristol office and open a new production base in Los Angeles from which it will produce Scrapheap Challenge and its US version Junkyard Wars, writes Ashley Davies.
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Financial round-up
Losses at Dutch cable operator United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) have trebled to EUR97m (£58m) in the third quarter this year, up from EUR25m (£14.8m) in the same period last year. The
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FIRST FILM AND JERWOOD IN JOINT-VENTURE
First Film Foundation and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation have joined forces to launch First Feedback, a screenwriting programme that will select 12 writers from throughout the UK and develop their projects
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Rushes offers promotions to three staff
Rushes managing director Mark Hewitt has promoted three of his management team.General manager Joce Capper has become facilities director after five years with the company. Chief engineer Tim Wharton, who joined
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - TOONS FOR SHETLAND
Factual indie Pilgrim Productions Canterbury is to set up an animation studio in the Shetland Islands. Father and daughter co-founders, Ted Harrison and Caroline Gilson have organised a pilot project in
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Researchers to gain extra funding
Glasgow-based The Research Centre for Television & Interactivity is looking to co-fund more black and Asian researchers' posts in regional independent production companies and is seeking applications for next year's researchers development programme, writ
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UK takes four out of seven Emmys
UK producers this week bagged four out of seven International Emmy Awards at this year's ceremony in New York.On Monday night (20 November), the international council of The National Academy of
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Kirch may fight EC
German media group Kirch is examining whether it can challenge rules which force it to sell the rights it holds to the football World Cup 2002 to a BBC/ITV coalition, writes Simon Ellery.
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TX - Down Mexico way
The success historian/presenter Michael Wood and Maya Vision International had with their series In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great made the programme a hard act to follow. But, after six
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Emap and MTV dispute music share
EMAP is damaging the market share of its own music video channel, The Box, by launching back-to-back music video channels such as QTV and Kiss, according to research obtained by Broadcast, writes Simon Ellery.
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RACING DECISION POSTPONED
The Racecourse Association has postponed for another week its decision on whether to award racecourses' terrestrial and interactive media rights to Go Racing - the Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure
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Sky struck secret On Digital share deal
BSkyB negotiated a deal to buy rights to shares in a floated On Digital as compensation for pulling out of the British Digital Broadcasting consortium in 1997, writes Simon Ellery.
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SPORTSWORLD IN MULTILMILLION SURF DEAL
Sportsworld Media Group has pledged $12.75m (£9m) to the Association of Surf Professionals (ASP) in return for the media and marketing rights to its events. The company plans to relaunch professional
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Teddington Crew member killed
Manchester police have launched a murder inquiry following the death last week of Brian Bassett, a scenic operative on This Is Your Life, writes Barbara Marshall.
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DYKE TO BE IN CONVERSATION AT RADIO FESTIVAL
BBC director general Greg Dyke is tipped to be speaking at the Radio Festival next year. He is expected to take part in the 'in conversation with' session, in which, this
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UK distribution faces major upheaval as ITV consolidates
The UK distribution industry is facing the prospect of scores of job cuts as the ITV companies consolidate, with more than 30 jobs expected to be axed in the Granada Media
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Pitt in talks to end Real Life connections
Real Life Productions' director of programmes Ruth Pitt is negotiating ways to leave the company she founded in 1988 as part of a legal process expected to be finalised next spring, writes Penny Hughes.
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Journalists urge code take-up
The new code of practice for staff working in dangerous countries, jointly agreed by APTN, CNN, Reuters, the BBC and ITN, will be touted on the global stage this week by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), writes Colin Robertson.
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CENSUS - Who's working the system
The television and radio industries have never been quantified before. But the Audio Visual Industries Training Group has done the first ever census of TV and radio staff. The survey was taken in May and shows the industry is male-dominated, with many min
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Horrocks calls for election poll pool
UK broadcasters should pool exit poll operations for the next general election to help avoid the fiasco which has overshadowed the current US presidential election, according to BBC head of current