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Granada gets Carter for health TV
Granada Media Group (GMG) has hired Paula Carter from BBC Resources to head a combined digital channel and internet service, which the group aims to launch next year.Formerly director of sales
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Grimsby College to make shows for Cable Channel
Grimsby College is claiming a first by setting up its own television 'station' that will make programmes for broadcast on the local cable network channel. ECE (Education, Community & Entertainment) Grimsby
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Sarah Thane is ITC director of programmes and cable
On how we should approach the development of a media education strategy for our children.
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NEWS CORP AND BT CONSIDER TAKING CONTROL OF VIVENDI
News Corp and BT are considering a joint move to take control of Vivendi, according to newspaper reports. The French utilities and media giant made its own predatory move on BSkyB,
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Brookes fails to win Newbury radio licence
Former BBC Radio 1 DJ Bruno Brookes has failed in a bid to run his own radio station. Brookes' outfit, Bruno Brookes Media & Entertainment, had applied to run the new
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X-Dream to break out of Europe
UK broadcaster, distributor and producer X-Dream International has secured a $70 million (£43 million) investment deal to back the launch of its European Extreme Sports Channel into South America and Asia,
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LNN to make November one-off Bond special for ITV
The LNN production team behind LWT regional movie magazine show Big Screen has been commissioned by ITV controller of network acquisitions Jeremy Boulton to make a James Bond special. The 30-minute
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - TV soap and quiz blitz pulls in punters
ITV virtually swept the board on Monday (8 November) on the first night of its week-long soap, drama and quiz blitz, writes Paul Donovan.
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Miles better?
Will Annie Miles stuff the schedules with Brit-produced shows such as Dennis & Gnasher when she takes over at Fox Kids UK, asks David Wood.
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OFF THE RECORD - Better never than late
OTR has an important message for all those minions who have been invited to one of those joint love-ins, sorry, presentations by John Birt and Greg Dyke: don't be tardy. We
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OFF THE RECORD - Better late than never
OTR had a thrilling time last week cogitating and digesting the responses to the Gavyn Davies report into the future funding of the BBC. Apparently Chris Smith's ministry of fun is
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Wedding bells ring for second time on Carlton
Carlton head of regional programmes Emma Barker has commissioned a second 4 x 30-minute series of Weddings for a 19.30 slot, starting at the end of November. The Community Programmes Unit
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Tranter to take on BBC drama role
BBC Production has restructured part of its senior drama team, promoting senior executive producer BBC 1 films and serials Jane Tranter to head of drama serials across both BBC 1 and 2, writes Tim Dams.
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Bi-media U-turn likely in BBC News overhaul
BBC News chief executive Tony Hall is expected to unveil a major overhaul of the directorate within the next few weeks that will backtrack on the bi-media policy of making news staff work for both television and radio, writes Tim Dams.
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BBC wins Euro play-off delayed transmission rights
The BBC has struck a deal with BSkyB to show the entire 90 minutes of the first leg of the Euro 2000 play-off between Scotland and England at the end of
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BBC poaches HTV's Richards
BBC Wales has poached* HTV Wales managing director Menna Richards to be its new controller, succeeding Geraint Talfan Davies, writes Tim Dams.
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD IN BARCELONA - BBC News set for mobile phone era
BBC News chief executive Tony Hall is on the verge of announcing a raft of new deals to put the corporation's news service on to mobile phones.Hall, speaking at the News
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD IN BARCELONA - CNN rejects Kosovo compromise charge
CNN president of international networks Eason Jordan has angrily rejected claims that the broadcaster made journalistic compromises in order to gain top-level access to governments, writes John Plunkett.
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NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD IN BARCELONA - BARCELONA IN BRIEF: NEWS WORLD SOUNDBITES
'No self-respecting businessman can operate without a PR man telling him what to say.' Lord (Tim) Bell, chairman of Bell Pottinger'The internet. In two years' time you are never going to
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TV exports inquiry backs tax breaks
Flexible tax breaks and new merchandising rules would improve the UK's television exports, according to a draft version of the Government's inquiry seen by Broadcast this week.The wide-ranging report brings together