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BBC 1 head plans to 'own' education
BBC 1 controller Peter Salmon has recomissioned the Lucy Gannon-scripted schools drama Hope and Glory for a second series, as part of a drive to beef up BBC 1's focus on
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Cat FM turns on RA over£20,000 fine
A Cheltenham radio station has hit back at a£20,000 fine imposed on it by the Radio Authority for broadcasting three bogus competitions, writes John Plunkett.
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Smith plans switch-off timetable
Media Secretary Chris Smith is to announce a 'trigger formula' for the switch-off of analogue TV - the first time the Government has committed itself to making a clear statement about its timetable for the move to digital, writes John Lewis.
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TRIO JOIN PHOENIX TV
Phoenix Television, the TV services company set up by former WTN managers Gerry O'Reilly, Steve Turner, Rex Jenkins and Rick Bayles, has made three further appointments. They include former WTN executives
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INTERVIEW - Independent spirit
Unique Broadcasting's Tim Blackmore says being given an MBE was like reading his own obituary. But there's life in the old dog yet - for the man who was in on the launch of Radio 1 is set to become chairman of production.
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Tigress hires staff to make new UK and US shows
Independent natural history specialist Tigress Productions is taking on 20 extra production staff on the back of new UK and US commissions, writes Jason Deans.
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Watts hires Roberts for Star Kids
Southern Star Sales chief executive Robyn Watts has poached Cascade sales head Teleri Roberts to run the company's newly established children's and family programming business.Roberts is to join the Australian producer/distributor
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HIGH POINT SENDS PEOPLE'S PRINCESS TO TNT IN US
UK independent distributor High Point has sold Live TV's 90-minute drama, The People's Princess, to TNT in the US.A Movie Screen Entertainment production for Mirror TV, the drama documented the last
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NOBLE SUCCESSOR AT HEART
Heart 106.2 has appointed former Drivetime announcer Erika North to replace Kara Noble on the Jono and Morning Crew breakfast show. Noble was sacked after a picture she took of a
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OFF THE RECORD - Going Nationwide
Remember Nationwide - BBC 1's eccentric current affairs strand littered with items on skate-boarding ducks? Well, had it not been axed in 1983 it would be 30 this autumn and to
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Granada to launch German operation
Granada Media has taken another step in its plans for international expansion, with the establishment of German production subsidiary Granada Produktion fur Film und Fernsehen (GPFF).Rikolt von Gagern, managing director of
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Garrigue and Lightfoot quit Resources
BBC Resources director of strategy Olivier Garrigue and acting director of operations John Lightfoot are both quitting the directorate, writes Dominic Timms.
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MARKETEER JOINS FLEXTECH
Pay-TV outfit Flextech has appointed the founder of Western International Media Mike Smallwood to the newly created role of senior vice-president of marketing. Smallwood, who joins after a period as a
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WINDMILL LANE OPENS UP LONDON OFFICE FOR FILM HOUSE
Dublin facility Windmill Lane Pictures has launched a new London office for subsidiary Film House. Headed by former Oasis marketing manager Gareth Mullaney, the Beak Street base has been established in
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PYRAMID UNVEILS VIRTUAL STUDIO FACILITY
Regional facility Pyramid post-production has launched a new virtual studio facility based around two Orad Cybersets. To support the new studio Pyramid has hired ex-BBC and HTV cameraman Chris Pain and
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OFF THE RECORD - Leaking Dyke
OTR is glad to report that Broadcast hack Jason Deans was among the first to quiz Sir Christopher 'not very' Bland when news of Dyke's appointment broke last Thursday. Bland, taking
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OFF THE RECORD - Ducking the issue
Those good people at Classic FM pulled out all the stops when they opened their new Oxford Circus HQ. As well as a Japanese water sanctuary and a grand piano, which
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OFF THE RECORD - Done Ronin
Prize for most pretentious (surely enlightening? - ed) press release of the millennium so far goes to the good people of Ronin Entertainment, the newly formed indie, which will produce the
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ITV prepares religious docu-soap
ITV controller of news, current affairs and religion Steve Anderson has commissioned indie Moore TV to make a religious docu-soap about a Christianity course for young people, writes Jason Deans.
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WEAR TAKES POLICY POST IN DISCOVERY RESHUFFLE
Discovery Communications Inc (DCI) has reshuffled its international team in a move that sees Discovery Networks International (DNI) president Donald Wear moved to a newly created post. Wear, who was head