All Broadcast articles in 10 September 1999
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BBC News Resources designers Mary Moss and Simon Hunt created new widescreen titles and a website for BBC 1's flagship current affairs show, Panorama, which is returning for its autumn run
BBC News Resources designers Mary Moss and Simon Hunt created new widescreen titles and a website for BBC 1's flagship current affairs show, Panorama, which is returning for its autumn run.
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CARLTON BUILDS WOMEN'S SPORTS SHACK FOR ITV2
ITV2 has ordered a broadcast pilot of a sports show for women from Carlton Productions. Sports Shack is a 30-minute programme that claims to be the antithesis of existing sports programmes
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Murray signs for Sky in£2.9m deal
Sky One has signed up 1999 Perrier Award winner Al Murray to co-write and star in a 13-part sitcom, Time Gentlemen Please.The£2.93 million deal, which includes fees and production costs,
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APTN TO COVER TUC CONFERENCE FOR BBC 2
APTN Productions, the business television arm of Associated Press Television News, has won the commission to produce coverage of the Trades Union Congress, to be broadcast on BBC 2 from 13
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Channel 5 clocked up its best ever audience figures this week with the terrestrial TV premiere of Independence Day pulling in an average 4.98 million viewers (24 per cent share) on
Channel 5 clocked up its best ever audience figures this week with the terrestrial TV premiere of Independence Day pulling in an average 4.98 million viewers (24 per cent share) on
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BBC consultancy spend tops£28m
The BBC spent£28.1 million on management consultants in the 1997-98 financial year, with£15 million alone attributed to the Corporate Centre, according to figures leaked to Broadcast.The statistics, understood to
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BBC AND EUROSPORT SIGN£28M DEAL TO COVER EURO RUGBY
BBC Sport has secured the exclusive live rights to broadcast the European Rugby Cup in partnership with British Eurosport in a four-year deal worth£28 million. Previously with BSkyB, matches will
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Intergraph offloads ViZual, Intense 3D
Intergraph Corporation is seeking to offload its ViZual Computing and Intense 3D businesses as part of a wider restructuring plan that will see it abandon the low-end PC and computer server
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KLOIBER SET TO SELL 30 PER CENT STAKE IN TMG TO EM.TV
German media mogul Herbert Kloiber is reported to be in advanced talks with merchandising and rights broker EM.TV about selling a 30 per cent stake in his Tele-Muenchen-Group (TMG), valued at
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ABC ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO S4C/BBC MIRACLE FILM
S4C and BBC Wales have struck a deal with the Disney-owned ABC network to broadcast their co-produced animated film on the life of Jesus on Easter Sunday next year. ABC has
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LWT TO MAKE THEME NIGHT ON ROCK BAND QUEEN FOR C4
The LWT entertainment department has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a theme night paying tribute to rock band Queen. The line-up for the evening, Queen for a Night, will
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Italian footie back on C4 in UBE deal
Live Italian football is due to return to Channel 4 next week, after the broadcaster finalised a deal with the new UK rights' holder, United Broadcasting & Entertainment (UBE), writes Jason Deans.
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C4 BAGS CRICKET RIGHTS
Channel 4 has secured the rights to show Test cricket highlights of England's forthcoming winter tour of South Africa. Coverage will include the five-match series against South Africa plus highlights of
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Skaramoosh has designed the title sequence for Channel 4's new three-part music series, The Hip Hop Years. Commissioned by C4 commissioner multi-cultural programmes Yasmin Anwar and produced by RDF Te
Skaramoosh has designed the title sequence for Channel 4's new three-part music series, The Hip Hop Years. Commissioned by C4 commissioner multi-cultural programmes Yasmin Anwar and produced by RDF Television, the
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C4I TO OFFER INDIES ONLINE REPORTING FACILITY
Channel 4 International will provide an online reporting facility to indie producers from the middle of next year. The new service will give indies access to the distributor's database, allowing them
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PREFERRED SUPPLIER DEBATE - Is C4 taking sides?
Does Channel 4 have a preferred suppliers policy? That depends who you're talking to. Below, Tracy Hofman, owner of ScreenAge Productions, claims that it does, while C4's Janet Walker presents the case for the defence.
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Network shunts 45-min Tonight into a new slot
ITV has confirmed the move of current affairs flagship Tonight to a new reduced 45-minute Wednesday night slot as predicted in Broadcast (25.6.99), writes Jason Deans.
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R5 hires former Talk sport chief
Talk Radio chairman and chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie has hit out at his former sports director of programmes, Moz Dee, after he defected to BBC Radio 5 Live this week, writes John Plunkett.
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C5 picks CLT chief as chair
CLT-Ufa president and chief executive Remy Sautter has been named as Greg Dyke's replacement as chairman of Channel 5, writes Tina Mistry.
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TV stands accused of bias against over-60s
People over the age of 60 are 'victims of discrimination from programme-makers and broadcasters', according to a new study, writes Tina Mistry.