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    Morrow quits Ulster for Wild Rover

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Ulster Television (UTV) head of general programmes Philip Morrow is leaving the company to set up his own Belfast-based indie, Wild Rover Productions.Morrow, who has been in his current post since

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    Think tank probes media regulation

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) is to launch a year-long programme of research and debate to scrutinise programming, new technologies and media regulation.The project, which comes in the wake

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    OFF THE RECORD - Subs on manoeuvres

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Seasoned Edinburgh TV festival-goers will know the city is full of hazards at the end of August - and I'm not just talking about drunks in the George Bar. But this

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    Trouble scoops rights to Malibu and One World

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Flextech-owned teen channel Trouble has concluded a deal with US distributor NBC International for the rights to two new series for the autumn schedule, writes Alice Macandrew.The deal, which extends the

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    NTL POSTS QUARTERLY LOSS

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    NTL, the US-listed group set to become the UK's biggest cable provider after its£8 billion acquisition of Cable and Wireless Communications' cable TV assets, reported a net loss of $348

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    OFF THE RECORD - Priory knowledge

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    It's quite like old times at Ealing Studios - home of the Ealing comedies - these days. Could it be because Granada's latest hilarious comedy dramas, The Royle Family and Bob

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    OFF THE RECORD - Porn to the job

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    As if having to make Live TV's piss-poor soft porn wasn't bad enough, now long-suffering staffers have to watch it as well. Off The Record's moles at the cable channel reveal

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    ROGERS PRESENTS A ROUGH HISTORY FOR UK HORIZONS

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    BBC/Flextech joint-venture channel UK Horizons has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute series from Granada TV telling the anecdotal history of some of the UK's more unusual places of historical interest. A

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    GRAY GETS UN&M ROLE

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    United News & Media (UNM) chief executive Clive Hollick has recruited Bernard Gray, personal advisor to Defence Secretary George Robertson, to take the newly created role of director of group strategy.

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    RUSHES POACHES FIRE OPERATOR MOORE

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Rushes has appointed former VTR Fire operator Derek Moore. He joins Rushes existing team of Paul Wratten, Russell Shaw and Groucho. Prior to joining VTR, Moore spent seven years at The

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    FLINTHAM AND TOWNSEND FILL NEW POSTS AT SKILLSET

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Skillset, the national training body for broadcast, film, video and multimedia, has filled two newly created posts - in-house research manager and communications director. Neil Flintham joins as research manager with

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    INTERGRAPH UNVEILS ZX FAMILY FOR VIZUAL

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Intergraph Computer Systems has launched a new Zx family of ViZual workstations which, the company claims, will deliver twice the system throughput of current generic systems. Utilising the company's new Wahoo

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    SIEGLER REWARDS THREE AT GRANADA ENTERTAINMENT USA

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Granada Entertainment USA president Scott Siegler has promoted Matt Goldammer to director, business and legal affairs, Rebecca Hedrick to story editor for TV movies and mini-series and EJ Lee to manager,

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    INTERVIEW - Let me entertain you

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Ex-Planet 24 man Duncan Gray spent his first year as Granada's entertainment chief gathering a strong team around him. Now he's ready to reap the rewards, with a raft of shows about to hit the network's new schedule.

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    Edinburgh unveils programme

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    The full details of this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival were unveiled on Tuesday (17 August), writes Tina Mistry.Highlights scheduled for the event, which runs from 27-30 August, include ITV chief

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    ZDF SUBSIDIARY IN DOCUMENTARY JOINT-VENTURE

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    German public broadcaster ZDF's commercial arm, ZDF Enterprises, and Hamburg producer Katharina Trebitsch have set up the joint-venture doc.station to develop and produce documentaries for the international market. The Hamburg-based company,

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    Digital tax a turn-off NOP poll reveals

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    A new NOP survey has shown that half of all consumers who want to sign-up to digital TV will be put off if faced with a digital tax of£24, as

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    Just desserts

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    After many years working with Peter Bazalgette, Tim Hincks was named deputy of GMG Endemol. But is he just a Baz clone, asks John Plunkett.

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    DBC SIGNS DARBY AND MCBRIEN FOR MARKETING ROLES

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Digital pay-per-view venture the digital broadcasting company (dbc), which launched the movie service u>directfilms on Sky Digital last month, has recruited two new members of staff to its marketing department. Charlotte

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    CWC digital TV takes off

    1999-08-20T00:00:00Z

    Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) launched its first interactive digital TV services in Manchester on Friday (13 August).The cable operator announced it had signed up more than 50 content providers for