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COMMUNITY HEAD SOUGHT
Media Trust chief executive Caroline Diehl is looking to recruit an executive to head up its new Community Channel. Set to launch early next year, the channel was granted just under
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LUDWIG ZU SALM TO LEAVE COLUMBIA TRISTAR TELEVISION
Ludwig zu Salm, German-based president production Europe for Columbia Tristar International Television, is leaving the US studio after five years. During that time he has worked with UK producers including the
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EX-CINESITE EDITOR MERLINO MOVES TO CLEAR
Clear has appointed former Cinesite senior Fire editor Andrew Merlino to its editing team. Merlino, who has spent the last three years at Cinesite, worked on a range of projects including
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OFF THE RECORD - Chopper flopper
It's not easy being a radio exec. Just ask Virgin Radio deputy sales director Lee Roberts, who hired a helicopter to take him and a bunch of Ginger Media Group execs,
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Living gets healthy with new channel
Flextech is preparing to commission over 60 hours of original programming every week for a new health channel due to launch next year.The pay-TV company plans to broadcast the channel -
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EDINBURGH: TV CENSORSHIP - Sexual healing
As the industry gathers for its annual festival, Julian Petley reviews a programming year in which the media hit on sex.
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OPINION - Time to make the fat cats squeal
[PP] 21 [PL] UK The Edinburgh Television Festival was originally conceived as a talking shop that enabled the industry's infantry to mix on equal terms with the officer class. It was
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CARLTON ORDERS FIRST CUT FROM TRINITY
Carlton TV has awarded Birmingham indie Trinity Picture Company its first order in the form of a 10-minute short for transmission as part of Carlton's First Cut series in October. Merely
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Carlton readies new on-air identity
Carlton Television is planning a wholesale revamp of its on-air identity, which could include the renaming of Westcountry as Carlton West and Central idents carrying a Carlton prefix, writes Dominic Timms.
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CARLTON UNVEILS WEBSITES
Carlton TV has launched websites dedicated to the work of documentary-maker John Pilger and long-running investigative show The Cook Report this week. The launch of www.carlton.com/pilger on Wednesday (25 August) precedes
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OLIVER TWIST PUT UP FOR SALE BY CARLTON INTERNATIONAL
Carlton International is planning to launch Alan Bleasdale's ITV adaptation of Dickens' classic Oliver Twist internationally at the London Programme Market in November. The serial, which is being produced by Diplomat
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DCMS canvasses for RA post
Former EMI chairman Sir Colin Southgate and BPI director general John Deacon are among the names put forward by the radio industry as possible successors to outgoing Radio Authority chairman Sir Peter Gibbings, writes John Plunkett.
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Distributor buys Lightworks
Lightworks editing systems has received a new lease of life after it was announced the Lightworks company has been bought from Tektronix by its Canadian distributor in a private sale involving a number of investors from the TV industry, writes Nick Radlo.
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SNP spokesman for broadcasting Michael Russell said he found it 'incredible' the festival had ignored what he claimed was one of the most important issues, not just for Scottish broadcasting, but
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has launched a stinging attack on the Edinburgh International TV Festival for the absence of a session dedicated to the Scottish Six O'Clock News issue, writes Alice Macandrew.
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JOINT US-EUROPEAN HOST BROADCASTING SEMINAR PLANNED
The European Broadcasting Union and the North American Broadcasters Association have joined forces to produce a seminar on host broadcasting arrangements at Sportel 1999 in Monaco next month. The seminar will
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BRISSENDEN TO LEAVE UNITED BROADCASTING
John Brissenden, United Broadcasting and Entertainment (UBE) controller of press and publicity, is leaving the company at the end of the month.His responsibilities are to be incorporated into a new full-time
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OFF THE RECORD - Spot of bother
Preparations for this year's Edinburgh TV Festival were nearly scuppered by an unusual source - a pair of sickly schoolchildren. The kids, you see, caught Chicken Pox in their home above
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TALK BOSS SIGNS HATTON
Talk Radio has poached Derek Hatton from Border Radio-owned Century 105 in the north-west. Hatton will replace Scott Chisholm in the high-profile weekday morning slot between 09.00 and 12.00, competing against
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SMOKE & MIRRORS TO SUPPLY BOND DIGITAL EFFECTS TITLES
Smoke & Mirrors has won the contract to supply digital effects for the title sequence to new James Bond movie The World Is Not Enough. Directed for the third consecutive time
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UK Play bolsters line-up with raft of new series
UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy has commissioned six new series for the autumn including a show from Avalon starring comedian Richard Herring, writes Alice Macandrew.