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    CUTTING EDGE TO FEATURE TWO NEW DISABILITY DOCS

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered 2 x 30-minute documentaries focusing on disability as part of the forthcoming 16-part run of Cutting Edge. Love is Blind is made by Hannah Berryman for Carlton

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    Samura wins Peck for Sierra Leone coverage

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The Rory Peck Trust this week declared Sierra Leonian cameraman Sorious Samura the winner of the 1999 Rory Peck Award, writes Wale Azeez.From a shortlist of five, including three British journalists

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    Radio Corp joins Wales licence fight

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    The new regional radio licence for south Wales is set to become one of the most hotly contested yet, after details were announced of a GWR-backed bid from The Radio Corporation,

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    OPINION - Content is king, the rest is detail

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Shorthand. We all use it and it's endemic to the TV and radio industries, just as all industries develop their own jargon. We write about Gavyn Davies and you realise we're

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    COMMUNICOPIA MERGES WITH NEW MEDIA OUTFIT NETPRO

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Communicopia, sole programme provider for the Money Channel (left), has merged with new media outfit Netpro. The pair have worked together on a number of projects over the past three years.

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    TROUBLE AND INITIAL KIDS TO MAKE TEENAGE COMEDY

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Flextech-owned Satellite and cable channel Trouble has joined forces with indie Initial Kids to co-produce a 26 x 30-minute teenage comedy, Ed Stone is Dead, a ghost story set in Notting

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    CNN and Sky News launch millennium programming

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    CNN and Sky News have unveiled details of their millennium coverage with more than 140 hours of live broadcasts, writes John Plunkett.Sky News will air a 42-hour continuous show, Into 2000,

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    FOLEY QUITS CINESITE FOR INTERNET AND NEW MEDIA

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Cinesite chief executive Aiden Foley is quitting the company to pursue opportunities in the internet and new media arenas. Foley, who has been with the US special effects arm of Eastman

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    Resources chief comes under fire

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Commercial director of BBC Resources David Green came under fire from UK facilities last Thursday (14 October) for wanting to 'have his cake and eat it'.Speaking at a conference in Barcelona

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    OFF THE RECORD - News on the cheap

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Congratulations to the BBC's Fergal Keane - winner of the TV news gong at this year's Bayeux Awards for war correspondents. It was Keane's hard-hitting reports from Sierra Leone that impressed

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    Charity launches Writernet

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Writers' charity The New Playwrights Trust is launching an online interactive database designed to put writers and producers in touch with each other, writes Wale Azeez.Called Writernet, the database will feature

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    MTV JOINS PREMIERE WORLD TO DEVELOP MUSIC CHANNEL

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    MTV Networks Europe and Kirch-owned German digital pay-TV operator Premiere World have linked up to develop an exclusive music channel for the platform. Following the agreement, MTV and VH-1 will cease

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    WOMEN IN FILM & TV NAMES KINNINMONT AS CHAIR

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Industry networking organisation Women in Film & Television (WFTV) has elected founding member Kate Kinninmont as its UK chair effective from this month. Kinninmont, a freelance producer with Independent Image and

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    SKY PICTURES INKS TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM DEAL

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Sky Pictures has signed a distribution deal with Twentieth Century Fox to handle the theatrical release of some of the dozen films it is producing over the next 12 months. A

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    CARTOON NETWORK MAKES RADIO DEBUT IN HALF-TERM DEAL

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Cartoon Network is to launch on the radio with a special half-term radio version of the cable and satellite channel beginning on Friday (22 October). The station has teamed up with

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    Carlton Food lines up new Xmas fare

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Carlton Food Network has lined up five new commissions for Christmas and the new year, writes Wale Azeez.The first of the new shows is fast turnaround show In Season, a 26

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    CAPITAL GOLD SIGNS MASTHEAD DEAL WITH OK!

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Capital Gold has sealed a masthead programming deal with OK! magazine to broadcast two celebrity gossip and interview shows each week. The show, OK! On Air, will be hosted by Capital

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    OFF THE RECORD - If you can't stand the heat ..

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Times are hard at Mentorn Barraclough Carey, which has auctioned off hundreds of items of cooking equipment after its daytime food show, Quisine (left), was cancelled by ITV. All MBC staff

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    SONY ROLLS OUT FIRST MEGAPIXEL CCD DV CAMCORDER

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    Sony is launching what it claims is the first megapixel CCD DV camcorder. The DCR-PC100E, available in the UK from next month, has in excess of one million pixels - around

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    News Corp, NTL on shortlist for DT cable

    1999-10-22T00:00:00Z

    News Corp, Microsoft, NTL and United Pan Europe Communications (UPC) are among the companies still in the running to buy Deutsche Telekom's (DT) cable TV networks, according to German newspaper reports.DT