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OFF THE RECORD - Macho management
It is the early bird, of course, who gets the worm, and no-one knows that better than Sophie Turner Laing, controller of programme acquisitions at the BBC. OTR only mentions this
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TRADE TALK - Martin Jackson
Warns Carlton chief Michael Green he may yet regret his decision to rebrand Central and Westcountry.
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GWR TO PAY MORE TO RA
Classic FM parent GWR has accepted the terms for the renewal of its licence offered by the Radio Authority, which will see the amount it pays increase by around£2.4 million
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OFF THE RECORD - Jerry groupie
No-one was more enthusiastic at one of the recent Jerry Springer shows, being filmed for ITV by Anglia, than United company lawyer Stephen Rudoff's wife, Lizzie.Rudoff's other half sat in the
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NEWSNIGHT GRANTED INSIDE VIEW OF PRISON LIFE
BBC 2's Newsnight has been given exclusive access to Wormwood Scrubs to follow the prison's attempts to improve its reputation. The current affairs show will film governor Stephen Moore, prison officers
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RTL PUTS FOCUS ON IN-HOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Leading German commercial broadcaster RTL is to place more emphasis on in-house production in 1999-2000, according to managing director Gerhard Zeiler. While daytime schedules between 09.00 and 17.00 will consist exclusively
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OPEN KEEPS QUIET OVER FLOTATION TALKS
Digital interactive TV consortium Open has refused to comment on speculation that it may float on the stock market with a valuation of between£1.4 billion and£2.4 billion if it
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OFF THE RECORD - In the flesh
Take a close look at the trunks of our back page 'virtual hunk' and you'll notice this week's pic comes not from Channel 5 (as you might have suspected) but the
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Rushes junks Henry for second Fire suite
Rushes has announced plans to close its Quantel Henry Infynity suite and replace it with a second Discreet Fire in a move that managing director Mark Hewitt said would be a
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ITV FINDS RELIGIOUS PARADISE WITH MOORE TV
ITV has commissionedindependent Moore TV to make two new religious series. Paradise Found is a 10 x 30-minute Moore TV/Action Time co-production inviting top celebrities to spend a week at a
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Ideal lands movie for FilmFour
Ideal World Productions has secured a commission and funding from FilmFour to produce the independent's first feature film, writes Wale Azeez.Produced through its Ideal World Films offshoot, Late Night Shopping will
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PACT PUTS FAITH IN VERTUE
Hartswood Films chairman Beryl Vertue has been re-elected unopposed as chairman of Pact for 2000, her second year at the helm of the producers' alliance. Wall to Wall managing director Alex
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KIRCH AND MEDIASET PLAN FURTHER EXPANSION OF ETN
Germany's Kirch Group and Italy's Mediaset are forging ahead with plans to create a pan-European network of broadcast interests through their joint-venture, European Television Network (ETN). Kirch Group programming director Jan
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PLAY UNVEILS EDITING MODULE FOR TRINITY
US company Play is to launch a new editing module for its Trinity real-time hardware. Dubbed Time Machine, the new non-linear editor is based on a custom-built hardware and wavelet variable
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ITV picks September docu-soap and specials
Independent September Films has been commissioned to make a primetime docu-soap and 2 x 60-minute specials for ITV controller of documentaries, features and arts Grant Mansfield, writes John Plunkett.
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Waldman signs up with Diverse
Diverse Production has signed up freelance Emmy award-winning documentary director Michael Waldman as a senior and executive producer to boost the indie's factual output, writes Wale Azeez.
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GWR music director to take strategic role
Commercial radio group GWR is set to appoint a music director to co-ordinate strategy across its entire network of FM stations and new digital networks, writes John Plunkett.
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Freudenstein to run Sky digital platform
BSkyB has drafted in Richard Freudenstein from News Corporation's Australian pay-TV joint-venture Foxtel to spearhead the continued roll-out of its digital platform following Ian West's departure last month.Freudenstein, 34, will be
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On Digital struck by wave of departures
On Digital has been hit by a wave of top-level departures as its executive director of broadcasting, Ashley Faull, and operations director John Egan quit to set up a£50 million
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TRINITY DENIES LIVE TV SALE
Regional newspaper publisher Trinity, which this week completed its takeover of Live TV owner Mirror Group in a£2 billion deal, has no immediate plans to sell off the cable station.A