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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - IDN BUYS SOHONET

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Inter Digital Networks (IDN) has bought Sohonet, the internet service provider set up by a group of London post-production companies four years ago. IDN chief executive John Wheeler said: 'The union

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MIXER LURED BACK

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Audio specialist Videosonics has lured re-recording mixer Dean Humphries back to the UK. He returns from Los Angeles where he has spent the past year with Todd-AO. Before that he worked

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BROADBAND SHORTFALL

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The government has failed to find buyers for the majority of the 28GHz broadband radio licences with only 16 out of 42 being sold. The auction raised£38.2m, significantly short of

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - TOONS FOR SHETLAND

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Factual indie Pilgrim Productions Canterbury is to set up an animation studio in the Shetland Islands. Father and daughter co-founders, Ted Harrison and Caroline Gilson have organised a pilot project in

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - ANVIL PICKS ANSCOMBE

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Audio post-house Anvil Post Production has appointed Mike Anscombe to the new role of studio manager. The Denham-based company was bought by Vidfilm Europe three months ago and, according to Vidfilm

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    Will BBC 3 and 4 woo critics?

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The consultation period for the BBC's proposed new services officially closed last Friday. And already the industry is closing in to ensure that, this time, the corporation doesn't get away with

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    FREE TO AIR - Watching with baby

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    It is, as Gary Glitter once said, good to be back, having drawn a line under the whole sorry business of childbirth with highly satisfactory results. Once one has hopped off

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    TRADE TALK - Big Mother

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Ruth Wrigley, executive producer of Big Brother, has reaped her reward from its success and is now Endemol's UK controller of entertainment.

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    IN MY VIEW - Barry Cox

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    On why the last Inspector Morse marks the end of more than just its protagonist.

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    ON THE BOX - Stars for a night

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Development executive BBC lifestyle and features, Birmingham Nick Thorogood welcomes new talent - good or bad - but won't be missing Morse.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Political motive

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Lord Waheed Alli has quit Carlton, 'to concentrate on his political career' but, faced with cries of a conflict of interest when it comes to broadcasting, what role can a media peer play in the legislative future of broadcast?

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    INTERVIEW - The ITC's iron lady

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Just a few months into her role as ITC chief, Patricia Hodgson has already cut a swathe through the operation and has plans to streamline it further, to gear it up to becoming more minimalist - and perhaps the industry's single regulator.

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    RATINGS ANALYSIS - The BBC plays a waiting game

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The BBC claims it will take years for it to be able to make a proper judgment over the success of moving the News from 21.00 to 22.00, but neither the government nor ITV will allow it to rest on its laurels. Katy Elliott reports.

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    TX - Down Mexico way

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The success historian/presenter Michael Wood and Maya Vision International had with their series In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great made the programme a hard act to follow. But, after six

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    Ratings Analysis

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    This Peaktime spider chart is designed to be viewed at a glance and shows the demographic of particular programming. The blue shape relates to the demographic of viewers for the last

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    Tarrant maintains large lead over Anne Robinson

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    The battle for peaktime between BBC 1 and ITV has shifted from Monday night to Tuesday night

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    OFF THE RECORD - BBC's revolving door policy

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    If Off The Record paid its licence fee it would feel all warm inside knowing how the BBC spends it. The corporation has just printed out some attractive wee nine-page pocket-sized

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    OFF THE RECORD - The lights are on but nobody's in

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Disney ubermensch Paul 'Easy Rider' Robinson was a bundle of raw testosterone last week. Having finished publicly slagging off the BBC at an RTS bash, he ran out of the room,

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    OFF THE RECORD - Stroked in the nether regions

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Reports reach us of audible head-scratching going on down Carlton Productions way, where elements of Birtspeak have filtered down and caused great bewilderment.Yes, even more than usual. Announcing the latest management

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    OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes

    2000-11-24T00:00:00Z

    Well, look at that. Roll your eyeballs at the glittering resemblance between LWT entertainment and comedy prince and former choreographer Nigel Lythgoe - recently seconded to work on Survivor at Planet