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CARLTON AND LWT FIGHT TO SIGN UP THAW
John Thaw has signed a two-year contract with Carlton TV after a two-way shoot-out with LWT. The news comes in the week that LWT's drama department revealed it had booked the
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Carlton, Granada opt for SX format
Carlton and Granada have made a joint decision to buy Sony's digital format Betacam SX as their new ENG format, replacing ageing analogue Betacam SP equipment.Carlton and Granada and all their
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FOREIGN OFFICE TO PROMOTE COMPACT CAMERA SEAT
Camseat has been selected as one of the products the Foreign Office will help to promote from its embassies around the world. It was designed as a compact outside broadcast camera
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BYERS REFERS ITV MERGERS TO COMPETITION COMMISSION
Trade secretary Stephen Byers has referred the proposed acquisition of Carlton Communications and/or United News & Media by Granada to the competition commission. The decision, announced last Friday (25 February), was
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United Sport continues to buy up rights
United Sport has continued its expansion policy, snapping up the rights to the Royal International Horse Show (RIHS) and a deal to produce On Digital's coverage of the tennis ATP World
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PREMIER LEAGUE BROADCASTING RIGHTS OUT TO TENDER
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore's invitation to tender document for rights to broadcast games live is to be sent to broadcasters at the beginning of April, following a meeting of
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MANAGEMENT RESHUFFLE AT BROADCAST FILM AND VIDEO
Bristol-based Broadcast Film and Video has restructured its management, with founder Dave Blackham becoming group managing director with overall responsibility for BFV and its subsidiary operations. Rowland Jones, who joined BFV
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Brits gather gold at Monte Carlo festival
Brits swept the board at the 40th Monte Carlo Television Festival, picking up seven of 12 Gold Nymphs awarded last week, writes Tara Conlan.Channel 4 picked up four accolades, three in
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GEARHOUSE BOWS TO MBO
Gearhouse Group has sold its UK and Australian broadcast subsidiaries to a management buyout team lead by former DPL chief executive John Newton. Gravity Media, a new company formed by Newton
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ITV classics boost Plus
Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSB) has boosted the programme portfolio of its flagship channel, Granada Plus, in a deal to buy a tranche of ITV hits from Carlton International, writes Colin Robertson.The
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Rapture blow as Kilgarriff leaves
Rapture TV director of programmes Richard Kilgarriff has quit the United News & Media-backed youth channel to start his own multimedia entertainment service, writes David Wood.Kilgarriff said his as-yet-unnamed channel will
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BLOOMBERG FUNDS EUROPEAN SCHOLARSHIP AT NFTS
Bloomberg TV is funding a three-year scholarship for European students at the National Film and Television School (NFTS). The inaugural scholarship has been awarded to Belgrade student Zorana Gudelf. Board of
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Hindley doc was in Tonight bid
A documentary film based on Myra Hindley's letters to producer Duncan Staff has never aired as part of the Tonight with Trevor McDonald programme, despite forming part of Granada TV's bid
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Regulator a 'step behind' on interactive
The ITC's proposal for 'light touch and flexible' rules for the regulation of interactive TV, published this week, has received a mixed response from interactive programme makers, writes David Wood.ITN managing
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TWO PRINCESS PRODUCTIONS' SERIES FOR BBC CHOICE
BBC Choice has given the go-ahead to two new series from Princess Productions - Shaker Maker and a reversion of The Great Egg Race. Airing in June, Shaker Maker is a
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RTE EXECUTIVE REJOINS BBC
Former BBC Watchdog editor Helen O'Rahilly is to rejoin the corporation less than a year after quitting to become RTE's director of television production. She has been appointed editor of the
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Bellekom leaves Talk Sport for BBC
BBC Digital Radio has poached Talk Sport managing editor Antony Bellekom to head its new digital music station, which launches later this year.Bellekom joined the corporation as editor, new music service
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BBC LAUNCHES WELSH-LANGUAGE INTERNET SERVICE
BBC Wales this week launched what it bills as the first-ever daily Welsh language 'newspaper' on the internet. Called BBC Cymru'r Byd, the service is produced and edited by journalists in
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BBC Worldwide signs major deal for India
BBC Worldwide has signed its biggest ever programming deal for the Indian subcontinent at this year's BBC Showcase in Brighton.The corporation's commercial arm is to license 260 hours of programming a
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BBC PULLS OUT OF HONG KONG TO FOCUS ON SINGAPORE
BBC News is scaling back its Hong Kong operations and opening a new bureau in Singapore in October to cope with the change in news focus in Asia. Three of seven