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News Special: The Production Show - Pitch to ISPs, says Mersey's Redmond
Mersey TV chief executive Phil Redmond has called for first-time producers to pitch ideas to internet service providers (ISPs), side-stepping the traditional broadcast commissioning process.Speaking at the Production Show last Thursday
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Interview - Growing pains
As ex-Disney channel executive Joan Lofts takes the helm at ITV2, she says that what the fledgling broadcaster needs is a little understanding and outlines her plans to coax this ITV baby into the world of grown-up TV.
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Sky One prepares to go mainstream
Sky One's new general manager, David Bergg, is preparing to go head to head with ITV and BBC 1 by repositioning the channel as 'a broader' entertainment service targeting 4 to 49 year-olds, writes Steve Clarke.
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GMG RADIO PUTS MYERS UP TO HEAD RADIO INVESTMENTS
Guardian Media Group Radio managing director John Myers has been appointed chief executive of Radio Investments Ltd (RIL), which is part-owned by GMG. Myers' new job is an extension of his
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International News - Postcard from ... Isabelle Repiton in France
France is no more immune to the meteoric rise of internet start-ups than the rest of the planet. Nor are the major traditional TV players slow to muscle in. One after
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OFF THE RECORD - Food for thought
The beautiful people of On Digital have come up with an ingenious way of spreading the word about the newly expanded schedule of one of their most popular channels, Carlton Food
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OFF THE RECORD - Fading tsar
Poor old Kelvin MacKenzie. The Talk Sport tsar came over all hot and bothered on the Today programme after the Beeb successfully fought off Talk's bid to snatch the radio rights
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International News - Egmont subsidiary for London
Danish producer and distributor Egmont Imagination has set up a UK subsidiary, Egmont Imagination UK, and hired Gem children's sales manager Tatiana Kober to head the operation, writes Tara Conlan.
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Health venture in staff drive
The Natural Health Channel, the new digital channel unveiled this week by The Sanctuary Group and West 175 Media Group, is seeking to hire up to 45 people before launching later this year, writes Colin Robertson.
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Drive to DTT could freeze out local TV
The Independent Television Commission admitted last week at the Production Show that the roll-out of analogue local television is being held back by the government in a bid to maximise digital
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WINTERTON STEPS DOWN
Nick Winterton, who has been chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Media Group for the past eight years, has stepped down because of the weight of other parliamentary duties. He is succeeded
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International News - ICA hosts Holocaust-related documentary event
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is hosting an international documentary film competition that will award first-time directors as well as established film-makers. The event forms part of a week-long documentary
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Griffee signs new doc
The BBC's English regions department is preparing the first of the landmark shows it promised when it axed regional strand Out and About last year, writes Ashley Davies.
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Dying Rooms duo to make jail kids doc
The makers of acclaimed documentaries The Dying Rooms and Eyes of a Child have begun work on a feature-length BBC 1 documentary about juvenile imprisonment, writes Tim Dams.
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Factual Output - In development
The last decade saw terrestrial factual output about the developing world fall by nearly 50 per cent. Is this the fault of the broadcasters or a public tired of doom and gloom - and will the tide turn? Katy Elliott reports.
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DYKE TO DELIVER THIS YEAR'S MACTAGGART LECTURE
BBC director general Greg Dyke (left) is to deliver the keynote MacTaggart Lecture at this year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. Dyke said: 'This autumn the industry will be preparing for
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ITV opens soap pitch and rejigs daytime
ITV director of programmes David Liddiment has asked a selection of preferred suppliers to come up with a new teen soap to replace Home and Away, in the week that the
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OFF THE RECORD - The truth dawns
Channel 5's Dawn Airey didn't seem entirely on top of her game during her much talked-about appearance on the David Dimbleby-chaired windbag show Question Time. The C5 gros legume, defending the
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SHAKESPEARE RAISES CURTAIN ON NEW-LOOK KNOWLEDGE
The repositioning of BBC Knowledge, headed by Liz Cleaver (right), as a TV version of BBC Radio 4 kicks off on 7 April with an evening dedicated to Shakespeare. The night
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International News - Entertainment Rights gets square deal on Cubeez
Multimedia children's and family entertainment company Entertainment Rights has bought international rights to 3D animated pre-school series Cubeez. The deal gives the company all rights to the franchise, including TV, merchandising