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    TV mags fix deadlines

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    TV listings editors have forced the terrestrial channels to limit schedule changes to an earlier deadline of 16.00 on Wednesdays with any subsequent changes to remain unpublished.The agreement follows a 'listings

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    DCMS' JONES TAKES POLICY POST AT PACT

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Producers' alliance Pact has appointed Kris Jones, a broadcasting policy adviser at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport, as its new head of public affairs. Jones has worked at the

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    SINGER, TAYLOR AND DAVEY HONOURED BY RTS

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Flextech executive chairman Adam Singer, Discovery Channels Europe managing director Joyce Taylor and former Independent Television Commission director of cable and satellite Jon Davey were awarded silver medals by the Royal

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    House welcomes Dann

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Barnes Trust Media has confirmed that Steve Dann has been appointed as sales and marketing development manager for facility subsidiary The House.The appointment, predicted in Broadcast last week, comes less than

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    DAISLEY TO HEAD SALES AT SOMETHIN' ELSE

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Bruce Daisley has been appointed head of sales for independent radio production company Somethin' Else. Daisley, formerly a sales executive for Emap On Air, will be responsible for developing new revenue

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    CWC offers digital for under a tenner

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) has turned the heat up on its rivals by unveiling a digital pay-TV package that it claims undercuts similar offerings from both On Digital and BSkyB

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    LWT PROMOTES MACKIE TO DEPUTY CONTROLLER OF DRAMA

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Laura Mackie has been promoted from head to deputy controller of drama at LWT, as part of a reshuffle by controller Jo Wright. Since joining LWT from BBC drama along with

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    ITN wins editorial control of LNR

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    ITN has taken editorial control of London News Radio (LNR) in a radical overhaul of the company announced on Wednesday (30 June), writes John Plunkett.

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    Jones sets up TV rights consultancy

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Philip Jones, Carlton International director of international relations, is quitting after 17 years with Carlton and Central TV to set up his own TV rights consultancy.Jones, who will leave Carlton's distribution

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    Tektronix confirms it will offload VND

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Tektronix has confirmed that it plans to sell or merge its loss-making VND division, as predicted in Broadcast in April (23.4.99.)News of the decision came as the company announced that it

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    ITV TARGETS GAMESHOWS FOR NEW COMEDY DRAMA SERIES

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Keith Allen and Denis Lawson will be taking supporting roles alongside Michael Barrymore in Bob Martin, Granada TV's comedy drama for ITV. Allen and Lawson will play, respectively, warm-up man and

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    Hibbert Ralph co-founder departs to focus on films

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Hibbert Ralph Animation co-founder Graham Ralph is leaving the company to start up a new company.Ralph, who has worked with co-founder Jerry Hibbert since 1983, will relinquish his stake in the

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    CN GROUP MOVES INTO RADIO

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Carlisle-based newspaper publisher CN Group has acquired controlling interests in two radio stations - The Bay, covering Morecambe Bay, and City Beat in Belfast - from the Oyston Family Trust. CN

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    SIMON NYE SCRIPTS TV MOVIE OF THE RAILWAY CHILDREN

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye is scripting a TV movie version of E Nesbitt's classic family story, The Railway Children, for Carlton and ITV. The 120-minute drama will be screened

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    History Channel strikes co-pro deal

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The History Channel UK has struck a major new co-production deal with distributor Electric Sky and indie Basic Films to make a slate of documentaries, writes Alice Macandrew.

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    COUNTRY TRACKS RETURNS WITH CELEBRITY MUSCLE

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    BBC Birmingham network production is producing a second series of Country Tracks, the BBC 2 outdoors show. Presented by Pete McCarthy, the series will feature location reports from all over Britain,

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    Talk catches cricket deal

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Talk Radio has bought the exclusive live rights to England's cricket tour of Pakistan, the second overseas series it has signed in three months, writes John Plunkett.

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    CARLTON TO START SHOOTING ONE-OFF LONDON DRAMA

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Carlton has gone into production with Blue Murder, a TV movie for ITV. The 120-minute single drama, which stars Gary Mavers as a policeman who falls for a rich woman played

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    CARLTON SCRAPS HQ PLAN

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    The Carlton Media Group has scrapped plans to unify its London operations at a new building in Great Marlborough Street. The plan, which was announced last July, has been abandoned because

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    Carlton World orders some Toast

    1999-07-02T00:00:00Z

    Digital terrestrial channel Carlton World has lined up two 26 x 30-minute series from Carlton Productions and Carlton subsidiary Action Time, writes Alice Macandrew.