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OFF THE RECORD - High profile
This week's picture comes courtesy of those publicity hungry folk at Channel 5. It was given away as part of a rather clever mousemat in the delegate goodie bag. The question
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GRASS VALLEY SEEKS HIGH PROFILE AT IBC
Grass Valley Group will launch the next generation of its Profile video servers at IBC next month. The Profile XP media servers are board-switchable between high-definition and standard-definition video and are
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GRAND NATIONAL TO MOVE?
The organisers of the Grand National are holding 'informal discussions' with the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV about broadcast rights for the event. The BBC has televised the Grand National for
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Granada Media in NY Times tie-up
Granada Media and the New York Times (NYT) have set up a joint-venture to develop factual programming based on the US newspaper's print journalism output.The new partners plan to invest£1
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OFF THE RECORD - Gardening tip
Word reaches OTR of an ingenious new way to help win a commission from ITV. The programme in question was the network's critically acclaimed gardening quiz show, The Answer Lies in
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Regulation 'unrealistic' in multi-channel future
Broadcasting regulation in its current form will have no place in the multi-channel digital future, according to ITV chief executive Richard Eyre.Presenting the MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television
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Premier football may return to terrestrial
ITV controller of legal and business affairs Simon Johnson has predicted the return of live Premier League football to terrestrial TV, but said ITV would not seek to buy the contract
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WIDE MOUTH FROG TO PRODUCE JAZZ FM TRAVEL SLOT
Jazz FM is to launch a new travel programme on Monday (6 September), to be produced by indie Wide Mouth Frog. The Jazz FM Travel Guide will be presented by former
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FLAME GETS FIRST ORDER FROM ITV NETWORK
Granada Television's design, graphics and effects arm, g2, has become the first ITV company to acquire Discreet's Flame compositing and effects system. Supplied by recently launched Discreet reseller Red Lorry Yellow
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Viewers enjoy relevant sex says poll
Television viewers enjoy watching sex in programmes, so long as it is relevant to the story, according to a survey commissioned by ITV for an Edinburgh session, writes Wale Azeez.Of 1,868
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EMAP SHUFFLES PACK
Emap Radio has announced a management reshuffle including the appointment of Key 103 managing director Dave Lincoln to the new role of broadcast director for all Emap's radio stations. Lincoln, who
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VECTOR TELEVISION HIRES SIMS AS EDITOR
Stockport facility Vector Television has appointed Trevor Sims as editor. Sims, who has worked at a number of London facilities, including VTR, had previously been freelancing in the far east.
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OASIS JOINS LIST OF FACILITIES WITH EDITBOXFX
Oasis Television has become the third Soho facility to install Quantel's Editboxfx. The editing and effects system, shown for the first time at NAB in April, will be used to post-produce
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Edinburgh Notes
'You should be ashamed of yourselves.'David Docherty, BBC Broadcast deputy director of television, berates a session audience that had just voted overwhelmingly against the digital licence fee'There is scant enough incentive
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MULTIPLEX RESULT DUE
The winner of the key London digital radio multiplex will be announced by the Radio Authority on Friday (3 September). The contenders are: CE Digital, the bid from Capital Radio and
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OFF THE RECORD - Sunny side down
A rather less effective way of winning a commission, this time from Channel 4 director of programmes Tim 'three brains' Gardam, would appear to be approaching the great man with a
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Discovery fails to stop use of name
Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) has failed in a legal bid to stop a newly launched Dundee radio station using the name Discovery 102, writes John Plunkett.The US-based cable and satellite giant
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SCHUMACHER TO DIRECT US VERSION OF QUEER AS FOLK
US movie director Joel Schumacher, whose credits include 8mm, Batman & Robin, Falling Down, Flatliners and St Elmo's Fire, has signed up to direct the US version of Red Productions' Channel
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GIBB TAKES ON DEVELOPMENT ROLE AT DIGITAL FILM
Digital Film@The Moving Picture Company has appointed a new development manager. Joanna Dewar Gibb, who joins from the British Film Commission, will be responsible for building relationships with clients as well
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Corporation in the dock over Kosovo
BBC 1 has been accused of marginalising current affairs by refusing to transmit a film about the war in Kosovo during peaktime, writes Alice Macandrew.Panorama producer Nicole Kleeman, speaking from the