All Broadcast articles in 02 July 1999 – Page 5
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MTV SEEKS EXECUTIVE PRODUCER FOR UK OPERATION
MTV is looking to fill the new post of executive producer to oversee the day-to-day running of more than half of MTV UK's programme output and its documentary specials. Reporting to
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Off the Record - Executive straining
Clearly you need to be able to do two jobs to survive the knife at the BBC these days. Take BBC TV head of comedy Geoffrey Perkins, for instance.As well as
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SYNTHETIC PLANS EXPANSION FOLLOWING FLOTATION
Computer animation and content developer Synthetic Dimensions is gearing up for rapid expansion following flotation last December. The outfit plans to recruit up to 25 people - tripling the size of
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And Finally ..
Stuart Thomas, editor of LBC and part-time insomniac, reveals a passion for sausages and daytime TV ...
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LIVING ORDERS PEARSON TO MAKE 'PSYCHIC' GAMESHOW
Flextech channel Living has commissioned Pearson Television to produce a new 30 x 30-minute game show series that features psychics and clairvoyants. Hosted by Paul Ross, the series is called Mystic
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PRESS GANG
No matter how frantically busy today's TV types get, somehow they can always find time to give themselves a plug in the papers. We round up their latest inky musings so you don't have to bother ...
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International News - Ronin moves into Germany
Indie Ronin Entertainment has signed a collaboration deal with German-based production company Brainpool TV and an unnamed US indie to develop, produce and market formats for UK, US and central European television, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Sky and ITN start interactive news
Sky News appeared to have outflanked ITN and NTL by launching the UK's first interactive news service on Monday (26 June), just as further details of ITN's 24-hour interactive news channel
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Interview - Turning the tables
Besides overseeing an ever expanding analogue and digital radio empire at GWR, Steve Orchard is a vociferous advocate for the industry's regulatory turnaround and, judging by his colleagues' awe, he will be listened to.
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Opinion - ITV should stick to its schedule
What a sorry tale the News at Ten row is turning into. The ITC appears to have seized on the issue as a way of justifying its future in the regulatory
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SWITCHDIGITAL LAUNCHES WITH NINE RADIO STATIONS
Switchdigital, London's second digital radio multiplex, launched on Monday with nine digital radio services. The line-up includes three existing London stations: Heart 106.2, Jazz FM and BBC London Live. The six
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Tiger odds on for lottery
Tiger Aspect has been signed up as the production partner of the Richard Branson-backed bid to run the National Lottery, writes Colin Robertson.
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PRIORY MAY REPLACE TFI
Speculation is mounting that The Priory - commissioned for a third series on Channel 4 - could replace the axed TFI Friday, also made by Ginger TV. C4 head of entertainment
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RDF SIGNS UP OZ'S NETWORK TEN FOR SHIPWRECKED
The second series of Channel 4's Shipwrecked - in which a group of young people have to survive as a team on a desert island - will be a co-production between
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NEW PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDERS TO REVOLUTIONISE TV
The coming generation of personal video recorders (PVRs) will mean a fundamental change to the TV business with broadcasters increasingly relying on subscription and pay-per-view revenue, NDS chief executive Dr Abe
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Trade Talk - Worth nicking
LNN's Nick Atkins is off to On Digital with his wicked sense of humour. But for some reason he's not smiling. Tara Conlan investigates.
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Off the Record - Poopy trap
ITV's rival to MacIntyre Undercover Hoaxbusters kicks off this week with an investigation into the tricks of the conman's trade. The United show also reveals just how easily duped the British
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Off the Record - Wild wild Westcountry
There have been comings and goings and 'appenings of late down at Westcountry Television - or Carlton West as it is more popularly known these days.The Plymouth broadcaster recently settled out
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Trade Talk - Sarah Thane
On the need to redefine the role of public service broadcasting in the interests of a national majority.
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MCKEOWN PUMPS£100,000 INTO ISLE OF WIGHT CHANNEL
TV producer and founder of Select TV Allan McKeown has invested more than£100,000 in the UK's first terrestrial restricted service licence (RSL) channel, TV12. The investment in the local community