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INTERVIEW - The new cultural evolution
'Genuinely respected', 'a safe pair of hands', 'on top of his brief'. The broadcast industry, it seems, has a lot of time for Media Secretary Chris Smith.After more than two years
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Corporation to oppose privatisers
The BBC is expected to resist any proposals by the Davies committee to privatise BBC Resources or Worldwide, write John Lewis and Steve Clarke.It is also believed the corporation would fight
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Omneon convergence plans lure investors
US technology start-up Omneon Video Networks has completed a second round of funding - adding $23.7 million (£15.2 million) to its first round of $8 million (£5.1 million).It will begin beta-testing
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OVERNIGHT RATINGS - Two Ronnies laugh off the competition
The Two Ronnies made a winning return to BBC 1 on Friday (16 July), pulling 8.8 million (43 per cent share) at 20.00 and eight million (38 per cent) for a
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INDIE WINS CRAZY DISCOVERY JOINT COMMISSION
York-based independent NMTV has become the first company to win a joint commission from Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) and Discovery's new US digital channel, Wings. The 7 x 30-minute series Plane
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Commercial radio hails govt review
Commercial radio has welcomed a government review of the way in which analogue licences are allocated, in the hope that some wavelengths currently used by the BBC may be freed up
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NTL/CWC merger deal edges closer
NTL looks set to win the battle with Telewest for Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), after securing an exclusive period in which to negotiate an£8 billion takeover deal.The agreement, struck
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CHILDREN'S ITV PROMOTER MAKES SUDDEN EXIT
Graham Douglas, executive producer for Children's ITV promotional links at Central Television, left suddenly on Tuesday (20 July). A Central spokeswoman would confirm only that his contract, due to run until
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OPINION - Will Prebble play his cards right?
Now you see him, now you don't. Stephen Grabiner, the marketing maestro Michael Green lured to spearhead his digital dream, has gone to pastures new. His successor, Stuart Prebble, was appointed
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OWEN'S TIPS SPEARHEAD GET YOUR KIT ON CAMPAIGN
Michael Owen is to kick off the BBC's Get Your Kit On campaign with a new BBC 2 programme called Michael Owen's Soccer Skills. Beginning on 10 September, the six-part series
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Young rebuffs single-regulator call
BBC vice-chairman Baroness Young has rejected calls for a single regulator for BBC and commercial radio, claiming the board of governors was a 'rigorous' regulator of the corporation's radio output.Young said
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OFF THE RECORD - We'll call you
Never let it be said that Sir Christopher 'not very' Bland doesn't look after his friends. No, not Greg Dyke, silly, but the outgoing DG Sir John Birt. OTR understands that
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YTV/TYNE TEES BUYS DISCONTINUED LIGHTWORKS EDITORS
Yorkshire-Tyne Tees TV is buying four Lightworks VIP editing sytems, despite the fact that Tektronix is discontinuing the whole Lightworks product range. YTT head of engineering operations John Nichol said: 'We've
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FOX TO BUY UP REST OF TVNZ NATURAL HISTORY UNIT
Twentieth Century Fox has finalised the deal to secure complete ownership of Television New Zealand's Natural History Unit. Fox has held 80 per cent of the Natural History Unit since 1998,
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... WHILE ZULUETA IS NAMED NEW MD OF IBERIAN BUSINESS
Pearson Television has appointed Eduardo Zulueta as the managing director of its business in the Iberian peninsula. Zulueta moves from Via Digital, the Spanish satellite television platform, where he had been
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NTL picks up two BT cable franchises
NTL has taken control of another two cable TV franchises, including the influential Westminster franchise, following the conclusion of a deal with BT, writes Alice Macandrew.The cable TV company announced that
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TORY SEEKS TO LOOSEN RELIGIOUS BROADCASTING RULES
Restrictions on religious broadcasting could be relaxed after MPs of all parties last week voted by 138 to nine to support a Ten-Minute Rule Bill that claimed the present law was
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OFF THE RECORD - We interrupt this broadcast ..
Those of us who have missed having our favourite films interrupted by a news programme since the demise of News at Ten need only retune to BBC 1. Take Saturday, for
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Life of Brian
Film-maker Brian Hill has a knack for being ahead of his time. He made a docu-soap in 1993 and now experiments with poetry. Wale Azeez reports.
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BRAY STUDIOS SAVED FROM CLOSURE
Bray Studios in Slough, where Hammer House of Horror, Poirot and Murder Most Horrid were filmed, has been saved from closure for the next 15 years, writes Ashley Davies. Peter Gray,