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PUSCHNIG QUITS ACQUISITIONS POST AT RTL
RTL Television director of acquisitions and sales Erhart Puschnig is to leave the German commercial broadcaster after 15 years for personal reasons. RTL's new secretary general, Dr Thomas Hesse, will take
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E.TV ACCUSED OF EIGHT LICENCE VIOLATIONS
South Africa's Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) has accused the country's first commercial free-to-air broadcaster, e.tv, of violating eight licensing conditions. If found guilty by the Broadcasting Monitoring & Complaints Commission (BMCC),
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ASIA WAKES UP TO BBC WORLD SERVICE'S THE WORLD TODAY
The BBC World Service launched The World Today, a new daily English-language breakfast programme for Asia, on Monday (11 January).The World Service is producing a 170-minute edition of the show for
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No public service without the public
Public service broadcasting, as one wag famously pronounced, is a bit like an elephant - difficult to define but easy to recognise when you see it. This is hardly a perfect
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COMMENT - Time to champion successes on free TV
Let us now praise free television.In the past six months ITV and the BBC have produced some shows as good as any in their long histories.As the hubbub of those with
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Network first?
One year after the ITV Network Centre unveiled its ambitious targets for peaktime share, are Liddiment and Eyre on course for achieving these goals?
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1999 - the year of Tigger and Eeyore
On the face of it new year should be the time of the Tiggers, bouncy optimists thrilled by the idea of new beginnings and fresh challenges.But these early months of the
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THE ECONOMY - PART ONE - Surviving the rollercoaster
With both the IMF and Treasury providing gloomy forecasts for 1999, what effect will this economic downturn have on the broadcasting industry? Opening a two-part special, Meg Carter finds that TV executives are cautiously optimistic.
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Vertue's reward
Newly installed Pact chairman Beryl Vertue enjoyed huge success with Men Behaving Badly. Can she work the same magic with the producers' alliance?
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Schlock of the new
Light entertainment's new wave of presenters are highly valued - but are they worth their big buck salaries when it's the shows fronted by TV's golden oldies that still top the ratings?
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OFF THE RECORD - Cold Turkey stew
Could Channel 4 - that epitome of lightweight fast-track commissioning - be, on occasion, a little too lightweight and fast-track? Off The Record only asks after hearing about last Thursday's debacle
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AND FINALLY ... Simon Kanjee, MD of TSI
MD of facility TSI Simon Kanjee fondly remembers his university days when he could stay in bed until noon.
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END CREDITS
Andy Harries struggles to come to terms with an empty office as everyone takes an extended Christmas break.
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BBC current affairs moves spark fears
BBC News chief executive Tony Hall's decision to scrap core funding for the home current affairs department - with the loss of 17 posts - has sparked fears about the future
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Celador hits jackpot with brace of awards for ITV's Millionaire
Celador's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? scooped two awards at the 1999 Broadcast Production Awards on Wednesday (20 January), writes Jeanette Blair.The ITV show won both the best light entertainment
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Autodesk reduces bid for Discreet Logic
Autodesk has cut its bid for Discreet Logic for the second time in less than three months.Responding to a Discreet preliminary second-quarter profit warning and what the company's president of corporate
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TalkBack bags epic BBC 2 drama serial
TalkBack and Sterling Pictures have been commissioned to make what is thought to be one of BBC 2's biggest ever dramas, In a Land of Plenty, writes Jason Deans.The 10 x
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BBC 1 lands new Davies adaptation
The BBC is set to go into production next month on a new Andrew Davies adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic novel, Wives and Daughters, writes Alice Macandrew.The period drama will see