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FOX BROUGHT ON BOARD TO PRODUCE CITV PROMOTION LINKS
Carlton controller of children's and young people's programming Michael Forte has hired Martyn Fox as executive producer of CITV's promotion links.Fox, who recently worked with CITV as series producer of Top
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MILLENNIUM BLACKADDER TO PREMIERE ON SKY
BSkyB has stolen a march on the BBC by winning the exclusive rights to the television premiere of a one-off millennium special episode of hit comedy series Blackadder (left). The programme,
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Money Channel poaches BBC's Low
Adam Faith's proposed digital TV station, The Money Channel, has named Toby Low, editor of BBC 1's Business Breakfast, as its first editor-in-chief, writes Alice Macandrew.Low will oversee all Money Channel
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BBC takes Ryder Cup highlights
The BBC has struck a deal with BSkyB to acquire the highlights to golf's Ryder Cup between 24-26 September, writes Tim Dams.BSkyB, which will be airing live coverage of the event
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BBC LAUNCHES INTERACTIVE SAFETY COURSE ON CD-ROM
BBC training and development has produced an interactive safety training course on CD-Rom, inspired by Bectu's June conference which highlighted a 'deficit of health and safety instruction in an increasingly untrained
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LWT borrows BBC teen group
LWT has lured teen pop band S Club 7 away from the BBC to make a one-off, hour-long special for an ITV primetime Saturday night slot in September.S Club 7 rose
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BBC coverage puts rivals in the shade
BBC 1 trounced every other UK television broadcaster last Wednesday (11 August) when its coverage of the solar eclipse peaked at 12.8 million viewers.Billed as one of the great national shared
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OPINION - Sky makes pace in digital battle
Elisabeth Murdoch's evangelical address at last year's Edinburgh Television Festival may have been a triumph of style over content. Nonetheless it did contain one highly prescient message that at the time
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Canterbury Tales bags four Emmys
Animated series The Canterbury Tales, an S4C/BBC Wales/HBO co-production, has picked up four Emmy Awards for outstanding individual achievement in animation.Joanna Quinn, who works at Cardiff-based Beryl Productions, has notched up
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RA PULLS UP STATIONS FOR BAD TASTE AND LANGUAGE
The Radio Authority upheld six complaints about programmes on commercial radio in the second quarter of this year. Two of the complaints related to jokes on 104.9 Xfm that were judged
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DNE brings back doc
Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) has commissioned Granada TV to resurrect the award-winning anthropological documentary strand Disappearing World for a special series to run this autumn, writes Alice Macandrew.DNE controller of programming
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Avid plans Matador and Illusion spin-off
Avid Technology is spinning off its Irix-based Matador paint and Illusion compositing systems into a separate company.Blue Software, which is expected to be up and running at the beginning of October,
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HP AND AUTODESK TO STEER KAYAK WORKSTATIONS
Hewlett Packard and AutoDesk used last week's Siggraph exhibition and conference to announce plans to collaborate on 'optimising' HP's Kayak workstations for Discreet's 3D Studio Max and Studio Viz software.
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GINGER AND ERICSSON PLAN GLOBAL AUDIENCE FOR VIRGIN
Chris Evans' Ginger Media Group is to collaborate with telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson in early trials of new technology which could allow listeners in any part of the world to tune
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LIVE SPORTS AUCTIONS RETURNS TO SKY SPORTS
Sky Sports and the Auction Channel have agreed a new 12-month deal for a second series of Live Sports Auctions after a successful first run which kicked off last December.Live Sports
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BBC EDUCATION DISSECTS THE PLAYS OF ARTHUR MILLER
BBC education goes into production next week with Miller Shorts, a 4 x 30-minute series for BBC 2 that explores the most famous plays of Arthur Miller. Each programme examines a
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Firms eye up SGI's NT arm
Dell Computers and Hewlett Packard are the two leading candidates to take over SGI's troubled NT business, according to company insiders.Sources said Hewlett Packard, SGI chief executive Rick Belluzzo's former company,
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PEARSON ARCHIVE GAINS RIGHTS TO SEPTEMBER CLIPS
Pearson Television International Archive business development executive Alessio di Capua has secured the worldwide distribution rights to September Films' library of clips. The deal, which covers around 50 hours of output,
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Tele-Cine appoints two to audio
Tele-Cine has moved to strengthen its audio department following the departures of dubbing mixers Bob Jackson and Mike Narduzzo earlier this summer.The Charlotte Street facility has lured former Molinare head of
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - ITV footie unkind to Schofield's animals
ITV's live coverage of Chelsea's Uefa Champions' League match against FC Skonto Riga put a slight dent in the network's recent run of Wednesday night ratings winners, writes Tina Mistry.According to