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PROFITS UP FOR ULSTER.
Ulster TV has reported year-end results showing a group operating profit for the year ending 31 December up 20 per cent to£14.3m. The broadcaster also reported a£800,000 loss for
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MILLIONAIRE ONLINE.
ITV has paid£2m for the rights to produce an interactive version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? in a deal with the show's producer, Celador.The ITV website will host
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LWT's 'Nasty Nigel' picked for pop role.
LWT Controller of entertainment Nigel Lythgoe has quit the company to join former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller's indie, 19 TV.Lythgoe, who has become a household name after appearing on ITV's
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Learning to speak the language.
A regulator, like the government, is damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. The point was proved this week as the Independent Television Commission published its annual report incorporating
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Mendes sets up joint-venture.
Former Alliance Atlantis managing director Sonja Mendes and Beyond International director of co-productions and business development Juliet Grimm are launching a joint-venture television consultancy, writes Simon Ellery.
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RATINGS - Raw Spice peps up Wednesday night on ITV.
ITV's much-vaunted documentary on the gestation of the Spice Girls was the programme viewers were hollering for last week, writes Jon Rogers.
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ITV to return to world's trouble spots.
ITV has ordered a new documentary series from Granada Television to be fronted by veteran TV war correspondent Michael Nicholson, writes Steve Aston.
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ITC's report soft on ITV.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) delivered its final annual performance review of commercial terrestrial channels this week and immediately faced accusations that it had gone soft.Despite a relatively turbulent year, in
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NEW VP FOR HEALTH.
Health service Channel Health has named James Ramsay as vice-president programming and content. Ramsay joins this week and reports to Channel Health chief executive Joanne Sawicki.
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GWR STAYS UPBEAT.
Radio group GWR, owner of national station Classic FM, has tried to calm nerves about the advertising downturn in the radio sector by forecasting continued growth. The group said it expected
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SMG GROWS AT HOME.
Virgin Radio-owner SMG has again upped its stake in Scottish Radio Holdings, owner of Radio Clyde and Radio Forth - by a further 0.5 per cent taking it to 28.5 per
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GRANADA TO REVIVE SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Granada is to revive its successful drama series Sherlock Holmes on ITV. The programme is currently being cast by Granada controller of drama and comedy Andy Harries. It will show a
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Graham Norton to make NY show.
Comedian Graham Norton has been signed up to host a New York-based chat show for BBC Radio 4 as part of a raft of BBC orders, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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SON OF GOD USES RED VISION.
Red Vision has created the content graphics for the landmark BBC/Discovery Channel co-production Son of God, presented by Jeremy Bowen for BBC 1.Using breakthroughs in archaeology, astronomy, forensic science and history,
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GMTV SHORTLIST.
Former Border chief executive Paul Corley and former Sky One general manager David Bergg have been shortlisted to head GMTV.
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Regulators get ready for Ofcom.
The five communication industry regulators have signed an agreement to share information and develop common policy positions in preparation for their proposed merger under Ofcom, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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ITV TO FOLLOW UP POPSTARS WITH POP IDOL.
ITV is hoping to capitalise on the success of Popstars by launching a national search for a solo artist. Pop Idol, to be made by Pearson Television in collaboration with 19
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INDIE FINANCE - Mersey TV shows its staying power.
Phil Redmond's company is the largest employer in the independent sector and one of the UK's longest running indie production outfits. It's busily diversifying into education, broadband and enhanced television.
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OFF THE RECORD - AND FINALLY....
Heather Jones, channel editor at Trouble, has a familiar fantasy about chanteuse Celine Dion...What is your proudest achievement?Appearing on Richard and Judy - twiceWho do you most admire in broadcasting?Miles Ross
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Fast TV offers remote programming PVR.
Fast TV Server is about to launch a personal video recorder (PVR) that can be programmed remotely from any computer using an online interactive programme guide (iPG), writes Barbara Marshall.