All Broadcast articles in 10 November 2000 – Page 4
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MUSIC LIVE TO GO ANNUAL
BBC Music Live, which took place this May, is to become an annual event but will be smaller than this year's millennium festival and each year will be set in a
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GWR ANNOUNCES INTERIMS
GWR has announced its interim results for the six months ending 30 September 2000. While pre-tax profit was£6.9m, down 24 per cent from last year's£9.1m, turnover rose by 24
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RTS announces craft/design shortlist
The Royal Television Society has announced the shortlist for its Craft and Design Awards for 1999/2000, writes Ashley Davies.
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Code Design and Direction has produced the titles for the new LWT Barrymore series. The sequence was designed by Andy Carroll and Chris Jennings and directed by Russell Norman. Barrymore promotional
Code Design and Direction has produced the titles for the new LWT Barrymore series. The sequence was designed by Andy Carroll and Chris Jennings and directed by Russell Norman. Barrymore promotional
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ALTERED IMAGES EXPANDS INTO THE MIDLANDS
London-based reseller Altered Images has opened a new branch in Nuneaton to ensure closer support for its customers. Sales manager John Stringer, who will be responsible for developing the company in
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The peaktime show, filmed by Zenith-owned Blaze Television, will 'play on the strengths' of the popular duo, which ITV wants to develop into a series. Their ITV deal also includes fronting
SM:TV Live presenters Ant and Dec are putting the finishing touches to a ITV entertainment pilot, Slap Bang, as part of a new output deal with the broadcaster, writes Colin Robertson.
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BAYNES HANDS TWO SIDES TV THIRD BUG ALERT! ORDER
Channel 4 commissioning editor children and young people's programmes Sarah Baynes has asked Two Sides TV to make a third 26 x 23-minute series of Bug Alert!, the children's puppet comedy
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KNIGHT AND ROGERS STEP INTO AIELLO ROLE AT RAINBOW
Rainbow Post Production has appointed two new managing directors to replace Raimondo Aiello who stepped down last month (Broadcast, 20.10.00). Rainbow facilities manager Louise Knight and head of audio Nick Rogers
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Streets ahead
As Corrie celebrates its 40th anniversary next month Jane Macnaught is the creative dynamo ensuring it never loses ratings.
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BMG TO RESTRUCTURE AFTER DORNEMANN STEPS DOWN
Media giant Bertelsmann is to restructure its television, music and new media division BMG Entertainment after a decision by chairman Michael Dornemann to step down in December. It is unclear whether
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EASTENDERS EXEC PRODUCER GOES TO FAMILY AFFAIRS
Pearson TV has appointed former EastEnders executive producer Jane Harris as its new producer of Channel 5 soap Family Affairs. Harris was executive producer of EastEnders between 1996 and 1998. She
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NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS MOST CRITICISED PART OF BBC
The BBC programme complaints unit received 159 complaints about 113 items between 1 July and 30 September. The corporation upheld 31 of the complaints which concerned 11 different broadcasts or series.
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DCMS to advertise to replace Holme
The appointment of a new chair for the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) has been held up following the Department for Culture, Media & Sport's (DCMS) decision this week to advertise the
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Adobe launches 'third wave of publishing'
Adobe Systems has unveiled its new business strategy, called 'network publishing', heralding what it calls 'the third wave of publishing'.In what the company claims is the most significant shift in its
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TANDBERG OUTSOURCES UK MANUFACTURING TO ACW
Digital broadcast systems specialist Tandberg Television is to outsource its UK-based manufacturing capabilities to contract electronics manufacturer ACW Technology. The agreement, which is expected to be finalised within the next two
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ACTION TIME COOKS UP DOCUMENTARIES ON THE CATERERS
Action Time has gone into production on The Caterers, a new 16 x 30-minute fly-on-the-wall documentary series for the Carlton regions in May 2001. The series focuses on the planning and
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UKTV to get£70m extra
UKTV is to receive a cash injection of£70m as part of new terms thrashed out between co-owners BBC Worldwide and Telewest, writes Simon Ellery.
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'Unsuitable' Ricki finds home on C5
Channel 5 has snapped up American talkshow Ricki Lake after Channel 4 decided to axe it, claiming that too much of its content was unsuitable for daytime audiences.C4 has been running
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C5 NAMES BROADCAST HEAD
Channel 5 controller of programme planning Ashley Hill has been promoted to director of broadcasting to assist director of programmes and freshly promoted chief executive Dawn Airey. Controller of features and
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NEWS ANALYSIS - All smiles at Channel 5
Now in profit and with programme budgets set to increase by 50 per cent, Channel 5 has clearly turned a corner. Ashley Davies reports on the 'second stage' strategy under new chief executive Dawn Airey.