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    Top Of The Pops chief appoints new producer

    2001-12-10T09:44:00Z

    Chart show's executive producer Chris Cowey brings in Michael Kelpie from Brighter Pictures

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    BBC re-submits proposal for BBC Choice successor

    2001-12-07T15:54:00Z

    Corporation tries again for BBC 3 with a clearer commitment to news, current affairs, education and music and arts

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    MTV Base ordered to issue on-air apology

    2001-12-07T13:09:00Z

    Dance music channel directed by ITC to apologise for airing Prodigy's 'Smack My Bitch Up' before watershed

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    Newsnight's Kevill honoured

    2001-12-07T12:57:00Z

    BBC news and current affairs editor awarded prestigious Women In Film & Television award for contribution to genre

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    RTL issues profit warning

    2001-12-07T12:24:00Z

    Channel 5 parent says it expects earnings to be 35-40 per cent down on last year and says downturn is likely to continue well into next year

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    Viewers not wild about Outhwaite's dolphins

    2001-12-07T12:16:00Z

    BBC1's factual swimming-with-dolphins show fronted by EastEnder's actress is no match for ITV1's Peak Practice

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    Viewers not so wild about Outhwaite's dolphins

    2001-12-07T12:14:00Z

    BBC1's factual swimming-with-dolphins show fronted by EastEnder's actress is no match for ITV1's Peak Practice

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    RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 18 NOVEMBER - Early evening viewers slip from soap to soap

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    When soaps pull in record audiences, it's the primetime heavyweights the tabloids get in a lather about - and rightly so, bearing in mind the contribution made to BBC 1's primetime

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    BBC 3 TRIES AGAIN

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The Department for Culture, Media & Sport is expected to publish details of the BBC's revised proposal for digital channel BBC 3 this week. Original plans for BBC 3 were rejected

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - DI3 HIRES MD FROM SKY

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Interactive TV software provider di3 (formerly Digital Impact) has appointed Mark Hughes as managing director. Hughes joins from BSkyB where, as part of the new media team, he was responsible for

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    C4 SURVIVOR MESSAGE

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has lined up one of the survivors of the World Trade Centre disaster to deliver its alternative Christmas message. Genelle Guzman, who was the last person to be rescued

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    SUNSET & VINE RENEWS CRICKET WITH C4

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has commissioned Sunset & Vine to produce its cricket coverage for a further four years. The deal kicks off from next month and includes all live and recorded action

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    C5 and Sky cut their text loss

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 and BSkyB have dumped their loss-making text service Sky5Text after admitting it was running at a loss and had no medium-term prospects, writes Georgina Lipscomb.

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Sales slump costs 60 jobs at Quantel

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Quantel intends to cut 60 jobs from its workforce in reaction to worsening market conditions.Although staff have not yet been made redundant, a list of 60 names was drawn up last

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    ACCUSED SCOOPS AWARD

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    BBC producer Aidan Laverty and presenter Fergal Keane won the TV Story of the Year award at last week's Foreign Press Association (FPA) awards for their BBC 1 Panorama programme The

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    RATINGS - John Deed is no sure thing against Millionaire

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    BBC 1's Judge John Deed failed to maintain its audience against a rescheduled ITV 1, writes Jon Rogers.

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    FREE TO AIR - Making news worthy

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    In the rush to portray Greg Dyke as a great populist and the sole architect of BBC 1's dash for ratings, it is conveniently forgotten how Dyke was schooled in the

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    UPN to screen American As If

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Carnival Films has secured a rare commission from US network UPN to produce an American version of its Channel 4 teen drama As If, writes Penny Hughes.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - New best friends

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    The BBC now has a head of sponsorhip, David Goldesgeyme. Although commercial rivals fear the worst - another hand in the advertising honeypot - the BBC insists only events, not programmes, will be sponsored.

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - ASTON IN SPANISH DEAL

    2001-12-07T00:00:00Z

    Aston Broadcast Systems has received its biggest order ever from Spanish state broadcaster Radio Television Espanola (TVE). Aston, which was bought four weeks ago by Softel (Broadcast, 16.11.01), has been asked