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Axel Springer eyes UK independents
German media giant Alex Springer Verlag is hitting the British TV acquisition trail and is prepared to spend a sizeable amount of its£1 billion UK cross-media acquisition war chest on
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ITFC SCOOPS ITV AUDIO DESCRIPTION SERVICES DEAL
The Independent Television Facilities Centre (ITFC) has won the contract to supply ITV and ITV2 with audio description services for the blind and partially sighted. The first enhanced services are expected
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Celador attacks 'rip-off' of Millionaire by Danes
UK independent Celador Productions is attempting to block transmission of a Danish show that managing director Paul Smith claims is a 'blatant rip-off' of the outfit's Who Wants To Be A
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OPINION - Will Tony Ball kick ass for Sky?
Rupert Murdoch likes to give the top jobs in his global television business to either Americans or Antipodians. According to the News Corp mindset these New Worlders possess the go-getting commercial
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EUROBELL ASKS ITC TO LOOK INTO SKY TELEPHONY OFFER
UK cable operator Eurobell has asked the Independent Television Commission to investigate BSkyB's offer of cheap telephony for its digital customers. Eurobell has asked the regulator to examine whether the satellite
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ASHPOOL MOVES TO END MULTIPLE PHONE-IN HEADACHE
Ashpool Telecom has launched a new telecommunications technology that it claims will bring an end to the frustration of multiple public phone-ins. MassCall is an automated large-scale call handling platform capable
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PEOPLE + ARTS BUSTLES INTO MADRID
BBC Worldwide/Discovery Networks joint-venture channel People + Arts has launched on Spain's Madritel cable system. People + Arts, which first launched in Latin America in October 1997, is now available in
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ARTE PLANS EUROPE-WIDE DISTRIBUTION VENTURE
Arte chairman Jerome Clement has unveiled plans for a Europe-wide organisation to distribute TV programming made by the Franco-German arts channel and its co-production partners. Although the exact details of the
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OFF THE RECORD - Up the Arse
Listeners who tuned into BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of Arsenal's match against Leeds last week could be forgiven for thinking they were listening to a radio version of OTR's fave
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Indie shoots Churchill's secret army for BBC doc
Darlow Smithson Productions has gained unprecedented access to former members of Winston Churchill's secret army for a BBC 2 documentary series, writes Ashley Davies.The independent, which produced code-breaking documentary series Station
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UNITED TO PRODUCE ARMY WIVES DOC FOR KOSOVO SEASON
A new 1 x 30-minute documentary, Army Wives, has been commissioned for Channel 4's week-long Kosovo season (Broadcast,14.5.99). The United Productions commission through Anglia TV highlights the strains and tensions experienced
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Passion Pictures' in-house effects team has just finished a completely computer-generated spot for Rowntree Mackintosh starring Roald Dahl's children's character Willy Wonka. Directed by animators Pau
Passion Pictures' in-house effects team has just finished a completely computer-generated spot for Rowntree Mackintosh starring Roald Dahl's children's character Willy Wonka. Directed by animators Paul Smith and Oliver Reed, the
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BBC breaks bank to make Anderson feature
The BBC has agreed its biggest budget to date for a feature film - $12 million (£7.4 million) for a movie based on Hans Christian Anderson's fairytale, The Snow Queen, writes
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Goal difference
Last year's football World Cup helped indies notch up 551 entries in the weekly Top 40 charts. But does this apparent success mask a downturn in the sector's fortunes?
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Watchmaker attacks with Allied Forces
Watchmaker Productions has set up a subsidiary, Allied Forces, to make low-cost programming drawing on talent from outside mainstream TV, writes Jason Deans.Allied Forces is being headed by Watchmaker producer Jacques
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Rapture to go on air seven days a week
Teen channel Rapture is gearing up to launch a seven-day service from the start of next year - a move that will see the outfit doubling its production output, writes Alice
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ITV TO AIR MILLENNIUM ANIMATION FROM OCTOBER
The Millennium Dome organisers and the ITV Network Centre have given the go ahead to 13 x 15-minute animation series Timekeepers of the Millennium (right). As revealed in Broadcast (2.4.99), ITV
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FAITH FINANCIAL CHANNEL AIMS FOR NOVEMBER LAUNCH
Pop star-turned-actor-turned-financier Adam Faith has floated his planned TV station, The Money Channel, raising just over£6.5 million on the Alternative Investment Market. The channel, now valued at just over£9
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Jaffe quits Sky to set up promotions agency
Sky Television director of promotions Raymond Jaffe is leaving the company to set up his own promotions agency, The Promotions Factory.Jaffe, who joined Sky in August 1992, said the new venture
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TV bosses united against digital fee
Television chiefs stepped up their attack on proposals for an additional digital licence fee with a letter to Media Secretary Chris Smith expressing 'serious concerns' and asking for a meeting to