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GEITJENBEEK NAMED INTERGRAPH EURO BUSINESS DIRECTOR
Intergraph Computer Systems has appointed Dingco Geijtenbeek as business director for Europe. Geijtenbeek (left), who joined Intergraph from Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe early last year, succeeds Nacho Mazzini as head
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Soaps - The Business Page - Cleaning up?
Selling soaps abroad means crossing cultural and language barriers and persuading foreign broadcasters to offer an untried product a long run in a primetime slot. However, as Esther Eley discovers, the potential rewards are huge.
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Charge of the lifestyle brigade
The dark-haired host, who looked strangely familiar, pulled a card from the desk and read a single word to a brooding figure slumped to his right. Just an innocuous couple of
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BREAKFAST NEWS JOB RISK
BBC Breakfast News is understood to be facing budget cuts, with the possibble loss of several jobs. The BBC 1 breakfast programme is being relaunched this year, with a 'rolling news'
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BSKYB HAILS BOX PROGRESS
BSkyB has announced that all four manufacturers of its digital set-top boxes are now in production. Panasonic UK last week became the fourth and final company to ship the Sky Digital
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OFF THE RECORD - Doyle is Shaw's Bodie man
Actor Martin Shaw has struggled hard to reinvent himself after his years playing CI5 agent Ray Doyle in The Professionals. Small wonder, then, that he took such a dim view of
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Big screen series editor Rufus Roubicek commissioned LNN Design to create a new series of titles for the relaunch of the LWT weekly film review show, Big Screen. Given the brief
Big screen series editor Rufus Roubicek commissioned LNN Design to create a new series of titles for the relaunch of the LWT weekly film review show, Big Screen. Given the brief
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BBC's TV drama 'sold down river'
BBC television drama is being 'sold down the river', according to writers and producers dismayed by the axing of 70 jobs from the department.Sixty-two TV posts will be cut from 116
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BBC takes millennium medicine
The BBC has added two new series to its line-up of millennium programming including Frontiers of Medicine from BBC science, focusing on the most dramatic recent breakthroughs in medical science, writes
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BBC SATISFIES INDEPENDENT PRODUCTION QUOTA
The BBC comfortably met its 25 per cent independent production quota for the 12 months to 31 March 1998, according to the Office of Fair Trading's (OFT) fifth statutory report. The
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BBC COMPLAINTS UNIT MEETS RESPONSE TARGET
The BBC's Programme Complaints Unit (PCU) has for the first time reached its target of dealing with 80 per cent of complaints within 20 working days. Between October and December 1998,
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BBC ONLINE BOOST
BBC Online has the second largest share of the UK internet market, second only to US search engine Yahoo!, according to a study by Fletcher Research. The survey found that 42
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HARWOOD QUITS BBC DRAMA
BBC drama head of finance Andy Harwood is moving to the post of finance director at online consumer service LineOne, a joint-venture between News International, BT and United News & Media.
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BAZALGETTE AND SILVERMAN JOIN MONTE CARLO PANEL
GMG Endemol Entertainment creative director Peter Bazalgette and William Morris head of international packaging Ben Silverman will be on the panel of a new format conference at the Monte Carlo market
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DISCREET LOGIC BAGS PRIZE FOR FLAME AND INFERNO
Discreet Logic's effects systems, Flame and Inferno, have won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Scientific & Engineering Award. The award, due to be presented at a ceremony in
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FIRST CUT INSTALLS AVID'S SYMPHONY
Bristol facility First Cut Digital Post Production has become the first facility in the west country to install Avid's Symphony. First Cut managing director John Lomas said the uncompressed non-linear editor
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OMNIBUS SERVES UP AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY COURSES
Omnibus Systems, which manufactures broadcast automation systems, is to provide training courses to freelance journalists and broadcasters beginning this spring. Omnibus technical director Ian Fletcher said that freelancers would be given
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Street-fighter wanted to punch for Auntie - Comment
Perhaps the BBC missed a trick. Two accomplished spin doctors, slightly tarnished but with plenty of mileage left in them, have recently come on the market. The newer, shinier one was
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GENRE AUDIT - Watching the soaps slide
David Wood charts the steady decline in the popularity of soap operas and asks what can be done to return the genre to its position as the broadcasters' guaranteed ratings puller.
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Digidesign upgrades AudioVision
Digidesign, the specialist audio division of Avid that manufactures the ProTools non-linear audio editor, has developed an upgraded version of the AudioVision sound-for-picture workstation, writes Kevin Hilton.