All Broadcast articles in 03 December 1999 – Page 2
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DIGITAL RATINGS - The digital watch
The advent of digital TV is proving a headache for ratings board Barb - just how do you measure what the likes of Jim Royle are watching when there are more than 200 channels to choose from? Martin Jackson reports.
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CRIMSON EXPANDS RECRUITMENT RANGE
Post-production recruitment company Crimson is extending its coverage to designers, effects artists and animators. As part of the move the company has relocated to new premises in Great Marlborough Street and
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STEVENSON HOOKS UP WITH CONDOR
Condor has appointed Kim Stevenson to its 2D operations. Stevenson joins Condor having spent the last five years at Melbourne-based facility Iloura.She will initially work on the company's newly installed Flint.
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TRADE TALK - Comic timing
UK Play channel editor Myfanwy Moore has come a long way, but still finds time to help mates such as Spaced writer Simon Pegg. Tara Conlan reports.
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Pearson's Little Pond to set up US/UK comedy swaps
Pearson Television is mounting a drive to encourage transatlantic cross-fertilisation of comedy talent through new indie Little Pond Television, writes Tara Conlan.American writers are to be encouraged to work on UK
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REGIONAL PROGRAMMING - Local colour
After a year of parliamentary devolution, Diane Freeman says the time is right for broadcasters to get serious about their commitments to spread production across the regions.
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CLASSIC FM PREPARES FESTIVE FANTASIA
Simon Bates will introduce a live recording of Disney's Fantasia 2000 conducted by James Levine, the artistic director of the New York Metropolitan Opera, as the centrepiece of Classic FM's Christmas
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TELEWEST PICKS CHAIRMAN
Telewest Communications deputy chairman Cob Stenham is to succeed Gary Ames as chairman of the cable company. Stenham will take over with immediate effect, but Ames remains as a director and
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MONEY CHANNEL IN TALKS FOR INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE
The Money Channel is understood to be in talks to secure international carriage deals. The channel, due to launch in the UK on 7 February on Sky Digital, confirmed this week
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Carlton/United sparks job concerns
The proposed£7.8 billion merger between Carlton Communications and United News & Media (UNM) has sparked intense industry speculation about the future of senior executives at the two companies, writes Jason Deans.
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Carlton/United deal lifts Quantel MBO
Quantel has reacted bullishly to the proposed merger between its parent Carlton Communications and United News & Media saying it would end months of speculation on its future and make a
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CARLTON WOMEN IN FILM AND TV HELD AT DORCHESTER
The 1999 Carlton Television Women in Film and Television Awards will be held on Tuesday (7 December) at London's Dorchester Hotel, hosted by Meera Syal. Categories include business, craft, creative originality,
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Simmons to run Capital digital ops
Capital Radio has made 95.8 Capital FM programme controller Pete Simmons programme chief of the group's digital operations, writes Tabitha Cole.As programme controller, digital, Simmons will oversee the January launch of
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LIVING BUYS FORGIVENESS FROM FOX
Cable and satellite channel Living has acquired 100 episodes of controversial talk show Forgive or Forget from the Fox channel in the US. The show, hosted by Mother Love, who is
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Flextech unveils Minotaur buy-out
Flextech Television has struck a deal to become a major player in the distribution market after agreeing to buy independent distributor Minotaur International.The deal, understood to be worth around£4 million,
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BORDER TV RECORDS RISE IN TURNOVER
Interim results for Border Television show a 21 per cent increase in turnover for the six months to 31 October 1999. Television turnover was up 7.3 per cent giving the company
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Salmon and Root may join board
BBC 1 and 2 controllers Peter Salmon and Jane Root could be elevated to the BBC's main board of management as part of the BBC restructure ordered by director general designate Greg Dyke, writes Tim Dams.
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MXR BIDS FOR MULTIPLEX
The MXR London Consortium, comprising Chrysalis Group, Border Television, DMGT and Soul Media, have put in a bid for the second London digital radio multiplex. MXR London is proposing eight services,
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DNE seeks Power pilot bids
Discovery Networks Europe (DNE) is inviting independent producers to send in ideas for a raft of pilot shows following the success of a similar scheme earlier this year, writes John Plunkett.DNE
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FRAGILE HEADS CONSORTIUM IN BID FOR EALING STUDIOS
The National Film and Television School (NFTS) looks set to sell Ealing Studios to a consortium headed by production company Fragile Films. The NFTS, which bought the historic film complex in