All Broadcast articles in 09 November 2001

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  • News

    Three yellow cards from Radio Authority

    2001-11-09T16:07:00Z

    The Radio Authority issued three 'yellow card' warnings during July and September this year, according to its latest programming and advertising review.The Authority dealt with 105 complaints about commercial radio

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    TV faces football black-out

    2001-11-09T15:01:00Z

    Professional Footballer's Association ballot backs call for boycott of televised matches

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    Closure of ITV Sport not an option for ITV Digital

    2001-11-09T14:39:00Z

    Allowing ITV Sport channel to go bankrupt would not release platform from£315m rights deal with Football League

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    ?Farmer' harvests modest crop

    2001-11-09T12:41:00Z

    First in eight-part rustic matchmaking series yields 6.1 million viewers

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    Channel 4 to cut jobs as downturn bites

    2001-11-09T11:51:00Z

    Broadcaster to cut up to eighty jobs and halve investment in 4Ventures as economic slowdown continues

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    Strickson in at Oxford

    2001-11-09T09:57:00Z

    Oxford Scientific Films appoints former United Wildlife producer Mark Strickson as head of natural history programming

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    Endemol re-enters Big Breakfast race

    2001-11-09T09:57:00Z

    Endemol subsidiary and ITVN team to produce self-funded pilot

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    Mortimer considered quitting over BBC factual job cuts

    2001-11-09T09:57:00Z

    BBC deputy controller of general factual says he will stay on despite accusations that under his jurisdiction commissions have 'nose dived'

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    BBC Online rebrands as BBCi

    2001-11-09T09:57:00Z

    Corporation attempts to boost new media offerings with name change

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    Health is focus of new landmark BBC drama

    2001-11-09T09:57:00Z

    Four leading screenwriters combine for Talkback-produced series Other People's Lives

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    ?It all looks a bit grim for children's,' Grace warns

    2001-11-09T09:57:00Z

    ITV controller of children's and youth says network 'can't compete' with less than half the BBC's spend

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    NTL and Telewest sign 'broadband treaty of Rome'

    2001-11-09T09:53:00Z

    Two cable companies to develop broadband standards to boost interactive services

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    Liberty poaches Telewest's Shaw

    2001-11-09T09:47:00Z

    Cable company's head of content acquisitions and business development lured by major shareholder to join new Japanese TV venture

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    Mortimer mooted quitting

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    BBC deputy controller of general factual David Mortimer has admitted he considered quitting the corporation after 129 posts were axed from the troubled factual and learning department.Mortimer made the disclosure at

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    LEADER - Public needs news, not stories

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    It's been one of the biggest stories of the 'war' so far: how the media covers it. Next week those involved in the broadcast news business from Azebaijan to Algeria and

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    SHORTT JOINS ZONE

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Networks Europe deputy managing director Dermot Shortt has been poached as chief executive officer for London-based channel operator Zone Vision, which runs channels throughout eastern Europe and Latin America. Shortt,

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    INTERVIEW - Winning on the web

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    BBC Online is flourishing while its commercial counterparts flounder. And Ashley Highfield reckons he can make the newly branded BBC i 'the number one digital destination.'

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    INTERACTIVE REPORT

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Technology rather than the needs of the viewer are driving developments in interactive television, according to a report by Shelley Taylor & Associates. BSkyB was judged the best interactive service in

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    PAT HAS NEW HOME

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Entertainment Rights has bought the worldwide rights to Postman Pat via the acquisition of Woodland Animations for£5.1m. Woodland's library holds 85 episodes of programming including Postman Pat, Gran, Charlie Chalk

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    TRADE TALK - Gift of the gab

    2001-11-09T00:00:00Z

    Innovation TK's link-up with effects developer 5D is indicative of the ambitions joint founder Delphi Durrant has for her telecine company.