All Broadcast articles in 02 July 1999 – Page 10
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Garrigue and Lightfoot quit Resources
BBC Resources director of strategy Olivier Garrigue and acting director of operations John Lightfoot are both quitting the directorate, writes Dominic Timms.
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Granada to launch German operation
Granada Media has taken another step in its plans for international expansion, with the establishment of German production subsidiary Granada Produktion fur Film und Fernsehen (GPFF).Rikolt von Gagern, managing director of
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OFF THE RECORD - Going Nationwide
Remember Nationwide - BBC 1's eccentric current affairs strand littered with items on skate-boarding ducks? Well, had it not been axed in 1983 it would be 30 this autumn and to
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NOBLE SUCCESSOR AT HEART
Heart 106.2 has appointed former Drivetime announcer Erika North to replace Kara Noble on the Jono and Morning Crew breakfast show. Noble was sacked after a picture she took of a
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HIGH POINT SENDS PEOPLE'S PRINCESS TO TNT IN US
UK independent distributor High Point has sold Live TV's 90-minute drama, The People's Princess, to TNT in the US.A Movie Screen Entertainment production for Mirror TV, the drama documented the last
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Tigress hires staff to make new UK and US shows
Independent natural history specialist Tigress Productions is taking on 20 extra production staff on the back of new UK and US commissions, writes Jason Deans.
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Watts hires Roberts for Star Kids
Southern Star Sales chief executive Robyn Watts has poached Cascade sales head Teleri Roberts to run the company's newly established children's and family programming business.Roberts is to join the Australian producer/distributor
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INTERVIEW - Independent spirit
Unique Broadcasting's Tim Blackmore says being given an MBE was like reading his own obituary. But there's life in the old dog yet - for the man who was in on the launch of Radio 1 is set to become chairman of production.
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TRIO JOIN PHOENIX TV
Phoenix Television, the TV services company set up by former WTN managers Gerry O'Reilly, Steve Turner, Rex Jenkins and Rick Bayles, has made three further appointments. They include former WTN executives
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Smith plans switch-off timetable
Media Secretary Chris Smith is to announce a 'trigger formula' for the switch-off of analogue TV - the first time the Government has committed itself to making a clear statement about its timetable for the move to digital, writes John Lewis.