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INTERVIEW: MARK BYFORD - Spreading the word
As the BBC's World Service achieves new audience heights, plans to consolidate its success by rolling out a greater FM presence and exploiting the opportunities the internet affords are taking shape.
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NCC CONSUMER CALL
The National Consumer Council has called for a body independent of Ofcom to handle consumer representation in communications issues. Its latest report Plugging in the Panel calls for a well-resourced body
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Capital leads in ratings
Capital 95.8 FM has regained its lead over Kiss 100 in London's crucial 15 to 24 demographic, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Forever director to take helm at Century FM
Capital radio has confirmed the appointment of Forever Broadcasting group programme director Giles Squire as brand programme director for its Century FM Network, writes Colin Robertson.
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CHELSEA GOES INTO TV
Chelsea Football Club is to follow its bigger rival, Manchester United, by launching a television channel on Monday (13 August). The club has hired London-based production outfit Input Productions to handle
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Reality series give children lessons in life
Producers should take great care when making reality TV, because programmes in the genre have been found to have a major influence over how young people relate to each other, writes Simon Ellery.
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INDIE FINANCE - Cottage industry to City slickers
Despite the best efforts of indies to shed their cottage industry roots and raise capital from the City, a report by business advisory group Grant Thornton argues that they are hampered by confused accounting.
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NTL CLAIMS A MILLION
NTL said this week it had signed up 1 million digital TV customers and was on track to hit its target of 1.2 million by the end of the year. The
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DBC funds gap forces closure
Digital Broadcasting Company (DBC), owner of film and sport pay-per-view outfit u>direct, has gone into liquidation after shareholders withdrew funding, writes Simon Ellery.
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TX - The history of crime
Makers of historical documentaries probably don't expect to find themselves amid a hail of bullets in Brazil or in a helicopter that Texan prison officers are threatening to shoot down, but
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STATIC GAINS CRUZ
Static Design, the broadcast design wing of visual media company Static 2358, has poached senior broadcast designer Luiza dos Santos Cruz from Deepend. Cruz's new role will focus on bridging the
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Flextech in Icebox deal
Flextech Television has struck a multimillion pound deal with US animator Icebox for a series of animated shorts as well as a number of new co-productions, writes Simon Ellery.
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TOSHIBA SIGNS UP DGP
DGP has become the only UK facility with access to the Toshiba DVD encoding and authoring system after it reached an agreement to become the sole UK sub-licensee of California Video
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West Midlands first in digital TV project
The West Midlands has been chosen for the government's first 'digital neighbourhood' project, it was announced this week, writes Steve Aston.
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Discovery trawls net
US Broadcaster Discovery Communications has turned to a TV commissioning website to ask UK indies for ideas for its Discovery Health channel, writes David Wood.
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DISNEY PROFITS DOWN
The Walt Disney Company has reported a 3 per cent drop in quarterly profits to $479m (£338m) on sales of $6bn (£4.2bn). The company instigated 4,000 job cuts globally in March.
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TELEWEST EARNINGS UP
Telewest Communications has returned record quarterly earnings of£74m before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation. Content division Flextech returned revenues of£95m for the six months to 30 June, up 13
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TRADE TALK - Saturday fights
The Saturday Show producer Annette Williams is set to 'custard pie' ITV viewer magnets Ant and Dec with CBBC's new offering.
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INTERVIEW - Survival of the fittest
'The policy of an organisation is not the stuff that sexy TV is made of. Our agenda is not to empower people but to get ratings up'.
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WEB RADIO STATION FLOPS
Internet radio station Net FM has closed just four months from launch after financial backers pulled the plug on second-round funding. The station, launched by former Talk Radio programmer Richard Jacobs