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Edinburgh winners in E4 TV deal
Kim Noble and Stuart Silver, whose Noble and Silver double act won them the Perrier Award for the best newcomers in Edinburgh this year, have signed a TV deal with E4, Channel 4's digital entertainment channel which launches on 18 January, writes Ashley D
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GRIFFILMS MAKES S4C IDENTS
Griffilms produced the on-screen Christmas idents for S4C. Animators Hywel Griffith, Dylan Jones and Eryl Jones based the sequences on drawings by the children of Maesybont primary school, animating them in
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422 TO MODERNISE
422 has dropped the colons and is positioning itself as 'more than just a television design company', according to chief creative Andy Davie-Coward, who added: 'It's a simpler, cleaner look. Those
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White Paper Special - Anxiety over C5's PSB objectives
Channel 5 joint-owner RTL Group has expressed concern about the white paper's review of C5's public service obligations, writes Penny Hughes.
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WILSON ORDERS 'SILLIONAIRE' FOR C5 ..
Channel 5 commissioning editor, children's and religious programming Nick Wilson has ordered a 1 x 20-minute broadcast pilot comedy show co-produced by indies Cheeky TV and Brilliant TV. Who Wants 2
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SMITH AWARDED RADIO ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP
Independent Radio News chairman Terry Smith has been handed the industry's highest honour, a fellowship of the Radio Academy. Receiving his fellowship at a Savoy Hotel lunch ceremony, Smith said: 'All
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Freedom and accountability
The white paper published on Tuesday finally provides operators across the industry with a blueprint for their development next year - and the year after that until this white paper turns
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Legal action threatened in live radio row
The Commercial Radio Companies Association (CRCA) is threatening legal action against the Radio Authority as it steps up its argument with the regulator over the issue of automation, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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MTV FAILS TO AVERT STAFF ACTION WITH OFFER
An MTV offer intended to resolve an ongoing dispute over employment with its 70 broadcast services staff has failed to avert threats of legal action. MTV is understood to have made
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White Paper Special - Ad agencies can own TV channels
Advertising agencies could soon supply their own advertiser-funded programming via their own TV channels following the white paper's lifting of a ban on them owning broadcasting licences, writes Colin Robertson.
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White Paper Special - Paper fails to address all indie issues
The 25 PER CENT independent production quota will not be scrapped but the white paper left unanswered a number of questions crucial to the indie sector, writes Ashley Davies.
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ITV pushing ahead with Sky Digital
ITV executives are planning to launch the first stages of ITV's family of digital channels on Sky Digital by the end of next year, writes Colin Robertson.
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ON THE BOX - Staying streets ahead
BBC News 24 presenter Christopher Morris loves Corrie's festive 40th but says we should Take a Girl Like You at face value.
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FREE TO AIR - Regulation, my arse
At time of writing, the communications white paper was still at the printers in bundles and by the time I'm able to grace these pages again it will have been as
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YULETIDE ANALYSIS - All I want for Christmas is ..
What will Santa bring this year? Winning drama for 21.00, hit new entertainment channels, an ITV chief executive, horse racing rights ... TV types will be shaking their presents anxiously.
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SUNDAY TIMES IN HIGH COURT VERDICT APPEAL
A date has been fixed for the Sunday Times to appeal against a High Court jury verdict earlier this year which found that it had libelled the producer of a Dispatches
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EURONEWS TO LAUNCH ON SKY NEXT APRIL
Competition in the burgeoning 24-hour news channel market is set to hot up next year as ITN's EuroNews service gears up to launch on Sky Digital from April 2001. EuroNews, which
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White Paper Special - Commercial radio up in arms as ownership points system stays
The commercial radio sector is frustrated that the white paper does not recommend an end to the ownership points system, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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BIG BROTHER'S WRIGLEY WINS WOMEN AWARD
Big Brother executive producer Ruth Wrigley (left) won the Film Finances Inc project management award at the Women in Film and Television Awards last Friday (8 December). Hope and Glory writer
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Reuters backs news software
Reuters is stepping up its support for the news delivery specification NewsML by teaming up with news software developer Wavo to launch an open source NewsML toolkit.NewsML is a web-based programming