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Memoirs set to reveal swinging Birt
Former BBC director general John Birt will lift the lid on a colourful past in his forthcoming memoirs, revealing that he stood bail for defendants in the Oz trial and once worked as a bouncer for The Beatles, writes Tim Dams.
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Grade may bid for Pinewood Studios
The news that Michael Grade might be bidding for Pinewood Studios took the UK film industry by surprise and, as Broadcast went to press, there was still no confirmation of the
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BLACKHAM BECOMES BFV GROUP MANAGING DIRECTOR
Bristol based Broadcast Film and Video has re-structured its management, with its founder Dave Blackham becoming group managing director, with overall responsibility for BFV and its subsidiary operations.Rowland Jones, who joined
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PRODUCTION SHOW SECURES BBC'S LUSH FOR MARCH TALK
BBC Broadcast head of daytime commissioning Jane Lush is the latest commissioning editor to join the line-up at this year's Production Show, which takes place at Olympia between 7 and 9
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BBC mulls multicultural post
The BBC could be on the verge of creating a new multicultural commissioning division, if an internal BBC proposal expected to be put before director general Greg Dyke is taken up, writes Tim Dams.
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World to make BBC drama shorts
BBC 2 is to air a 10 x 10-minute series of short films from World Productions, all set in the back of a London taxi, writes Tim Dams.
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BBC to get clean bill of health
Auditors appointed by media secretary Chris Smith to give a second opinion on the BBC's request for digital funding are understood to have given the corporation a relatively clean bill of health, writes John Lewis.
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BBC Brum recruits Thorogood
Nick Thorogood joins as the divison's development executive from Talent Television where he was a development producer. His brief will be to liaise closely with BBC Broadcast and channel commissioning teams
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BBC Choice orders slate of new entertainment shows
BBC Choice has ordered a slate of new commissions, including a music series fronted by comedian Sean Hughes, writes Tim Dams.
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RTS BOOKS IN BSKYB'S TONY BALL AS DINNER SPEAKER
BSkyB chief executive Tony Ball is set to speak at a Royal Television Society dinner on 27 April. Further RTS events this year include the Programme Awards on 21 March, the
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REUTERS BACKTRACKS ON TV DIVISION JOB CUTS
Reuters Financial Television (RFT) staff have been assured there will be no forced redundancies as a result of the company's restructure announced last week and a cut in RFT's budget from
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Cook show attacked
Carlton Television's award-winning investigations programme, The Cook Report, came under renewed attack this week following tabloid allegations that four of its shows were guilty of forgery, writes Colin Robertson.
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GWR INVESTS IN NET ARM
Classic FM parent GWR is to pump£6.5 million into a new internet-related business, Ecast Ventures. The new outfit will have three arms: a raft of local websites, an entertainment portal
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NEWS CORP PONDERS LAUNCH OF GLOBAL SATELLITE ARM
News Corporation, a 40 per cent shareholder in BSkyB, has confirmed reports that it is 'seriously considering' plans to consolidate its worldwide satellite platforms and 'certain related assets' into a new
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BIDS PLACED FOR RADIO LICENCE IN MORECAMBE BAY AREA
Five groups are bidding to run the independent local radio licence for the Morecambe Bay area. The applicants include existing licensee The Bay, Guardian Media Group-backed BFM, and Easy 96.9FM led
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ITN Archive enters Japanese market
ITN Archive is expanding into Tokyo through a new agreement with Reuters Japan, as it gears up to secure additional clients in the region.The outfit, which launches this week, will be
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FA APPOINTS FAULL'S .COM
Interactive broadcasting outfit sit-up.com has been appointed as a strategic consultant to the Football Association to advise it on the sale of future broadcast rights to FA Cup and England home
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Overnight Ratings - ITV's Framed mars Ant and Dec's night out
The first outing of BBC 1's new Saturday night entertainment show fronted by Ant and Dec clocked up a respectable audience, but was still beaten by ITV stalwart You've Been Framed, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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News Analysis - Changing its digital tune
Although it has been little publicised, BBC chiefs are in the midst of a comprehensive overhaul of their digital TV output. Tim Dams asks whether upping the tempo will get more coins in the hat.
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Opinion - BBC's critics look after number one
This editorial requires a brief justification: a defence of why we're writing about the BBC yet again. The corporation faces one of the biggest tests of its history as the government