All Broadcast articles in 02 February 2001 – Page 5
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CLIMER TO ON DIGITAL.
BBC News controller of technology Naomi Climer has joined On Digital in the new post of director of technical operations. Reporting to chief technical officer Simon Dore, Climer will take responsibility
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CLIPSALESNOW.COM TIES.
Clipsalesnow.com, the online clippings service backed by September Films, which launches next week (8 February), has signed up Brook Lapping Productions, RDF Television, Minotaur, ARTV and is also on the verge
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Commissions queue up for YTTTP
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Productions (YTTTP) controller of features Bridget Boseley has bagged a number of orders, including three more instalments of her 100 Greatest ... strand for Channel 4, writes Colin Robertson.
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NEWS COMPLAINT UPHELD.
The BBC programme complaints bulletin published this week upheld 18 of the 157 complaints, including one made by the secretary general of the Aluminium Federation about a BBC news programme on
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Owners consider wider contract for ITV news.
ITN or the recently unveiled BSkyB-led news consortium could be asked to run an ITV-branded news channel and interactive website as part of the terms of the network's next five-year news contract, writes Colin Robertson.
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FREE XSI COURSES.
Softimage is offering free XSI training courses to current users of the software. Tyrell will host the single-day courses on the following days: 6 February for new users; 7 February for
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IRVINE OPENS DOOR TO TV COURT COVERAGE.
High-profile appeal court cases such as the recent battle involving Siamese twins Jodie and Mary could be televised within five years, according to Lord Chancellor Lord Irvine. Speaking to the Commons
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OFF THE RECORD - Mole win proves critics wrong.
It has emerged that Action Time initially had a bit of trouble pitching the format for The Mole to British broadcasters last year. Many of the biggies said they kind of
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ENTERTAINMENT RIGHTS' CUBEEZ GOES GLOBAL.
Entertainment Rights has sold the 26 x 11-minute and 13 x 30-minute children's property Cubeez to a number of international broadcasters, including Discovery Kids Latin America, Fox Kids Australia, TVP Poland,
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Database plan for multicultural talent.
Channel 4 is setting up a multicultural talent database and has hired Granada Television producer/director Amina Razaq to implement it, writes Ashley Davies.
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White paper will date too rapidly.
Media select committee chairman Gerald Kaufman has suggested the government's communications white paper will be dead before it is translated into legislation.At the second session of the select committee's inquiry into
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USA NETWORK SNAPS UP DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Target Distribution has sold the format of Hewland International drama Daylight Robbery (left) to USA Network. The US broadcaster is expected to make an 8 x 60-minute version of the drama,
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DCMS 'open' to ideas for Ofcom.
The government is open to suggestions about the best structure for its proposed single regulator, Ofcom, media secretary Chris Smith said this week. Speaking at an Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR)
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ZONE DISCOVERY DEAL.
London-based channel producer and distributor Zone Vision has renewed a representation agreement with Discovery Communications Europe for a further five years. The contract covers Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Civilisations, Discovery
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SEX AND VIOLENCE INCREASED THROUGH DECADE.
The amount of violence, sex and bad language shown on the television has increased throughout the 1990s. According to the latest Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) report for 1999, the number of
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On Digital registers sites.
On Digital owners Granada Media and Carlton Comm-unications are registering internet addresses under the On Digital brand, in another step towards a unified ITV web brand, write Simon Ellery and Jon Rogers.
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EM.TV POSTS LOSS.
Children's television property specialist EM.TV - which bought the Jim Henson Company last April - posted a loss of EUR135,268 (£85,260) for the period 1 January to 30 September 2000, against
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Red Fig enhances its TV voting system.
Interactive TV specialist Red Fig is set to introduce a return path to its real-time TV voting system to enable programme makers to send personalised information to viewers via mobile phones, writes Barbara Marshall.
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OFF THE RECORD - New evidence of PM losing fans.
ITN's schpinmeister, Mark Gallagher, showed the world just how influential he is last week during a white paper briefing session just opposite the Houses of Parliament. The meeting, which was attended
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OPTOMEN'S FASHION TIP.
Optomen Television is making a 'frockudrama' series for Channel 4, aiming to do for fashion what Jamie Oliver (right) did for cookery shows, writes Ashley Davies.