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    FORUM PUTS NEWS IN FOCUS

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    How broadcasters prioritise news stories and whether the public gets the news bulletins it wants will be debated at the first joint forum between Bafta and the Rory Peck Trust. The

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    Vorderman to host Granada ITV factual show

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Granada Television has been commissioned to make a factual entertainment series for ITV's summer schedule fronted by Carol Vorderman, writes Nicola Methven.Find a Fortune, which piloted last December, is due to

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    Hallmark sells epic production The Tenth Kingdom

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    US distributor Hallmark Entertainment has sold its 10-hour production The Tenth Kingdom to Germany's RTL, Italy's Mediaset and Spain's Telecinco following a deal announced at last week's Mip-TV. The Tenth Kingdom

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    OPINION - The Times gets it wrong on Dyke

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Greg Dyke has not yet been summoned to Broadcasting House to be grilled by the BBC's board of governors for the director general's job but already the Murdoch press is conducting

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    Malik to head up new duplication facility at Oasis TV

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Oasis Television has appointed Kabir Malik to head up the sales department of its new duplication facility, O2. Malik joins the new Oasis division from film and video transfer company Klones.

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    DUO MOVE POSTS IN MINI GMTV SHAKE-UP

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    GMTV Ireland correspondent Sara Holden has been promoted to the post of political editor, while stand-in newsreader Donna Bernard has been made New York correspondent. Holden (right) joined GMTV in 1995

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    MIP-TV NEWS ROUND-UP - Granada sells drama to HBO

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    UK distributors reported brisk business at Mip-TV last week, with Carlton International selling more than 40 hours of documentary programming and a raft of drama productions.Carlton's successes included 32 Inspector Morse

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    LWT in doghouse over Tarrant on TV

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission has rapped LWT for its treatment of clips purportedly showing a man eating dog excrement on Sunday night entertainment show Tarrant on TV, writes Alice Macandrew.The watchdog

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    RDF pre-sells Sky Edward and Sophie wedding doc

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    RDF International, the distribution arm of UK indie RDF Television, pre-sold 60-minute Sky TV documentary Edward and Sophie - The Making of a Modern Marriage to a number of territories at

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    OFF THE RECORD - But DJ keeps on running

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    One runner who enjoyed a more successful day out at the Marathon was Nana Amoatemaa-Appiah, who has the grand title of 'head of empowerment' at promotions production company Dunlop Woods. Nana,

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    Globecast launches video distribution service

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    GlobeCast Northern Europe has joined the growing band of companies offering ad hoc video distribution by launching a new video distribution service. Dubbed by the company as a 'virtual courier service',

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    Disney poaches Zubairy from Paramount

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    The Paramount Comedy Channel's director of programming, Asif Zubairy, has been snapped up by Walt Disney production arm Buena Vista Productions International (BVPI) to become head of popular and factual programming,

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    French gear up for digital terrestrial

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    A new report commissioned by the French government has recommended the launch of up to 48 digital terrestrial TV (DTT) channels, with existing terrestrial operators to be given priority in digital

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    OFF THE RECORD - Get cuffed

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    And so to Cannes, where punters crowded aboard the Soho House Boat last week to witness the launch of Shed Productions' new drama, Bad Girls, at Mip-TV. Could the enthusiastic attendance

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    News Technology conference focuses on convergence

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    News Technology '99 is set to focus on the convergent drivers in telecoms and information technology likely to have the greatest impact on the broadcasting industry. The technical regulation of news

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    NBD sells concert package at MIP-TV

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    NBD Television (NBDtv) struck distribution deals across its comedy and music programming packages at Mip-TV last week. Acquisitions by Spanish content provider Mediapark, Canal 9 in Spain and Italy's RAI Sat

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    Mel and Sue sign for Granada's ITV comedy quiz show

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    The stars of Channel 4's Late Lunch, Mel Giedroye and Sue Perkins, have been signed by Granada Television to host a new comedy quiz for ITV, writes Nicola Methven.The Casting Couch,

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    Clear takes on Fallon as new MD

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Commercials facility Clear has appointed Simon Fallon as its first full-time managing director since its rebrand from Facilities-R-US three years ago.Fallon, who has spent the last 10 years as head of

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    DIGITAL ONE COMMENCES CLASSIC FM SIMULCAST

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Commercial digital radio consortium Digital One began a digital simulcast of its Classic FM analogue service in the London area on Monday (19 April), as predicted in Broadcast (19.3.99). The test

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    OFF THE RECORD - Kelvin gets clap

    1999-04-23T00:00:00Z

    Talk Radio boss Kelvin MacKenzie resorted to some unusual tactics when he launched his traditional attack on the BBC at the Music Radio conference in London last week. Alongside his familiar