All Broadcast articles in 14 December 2001
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Cut-price digital radio sets snapped up
Pilot scheme offering digital sets for£99 sees each stockist sell out in under an hour
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Pressure group to debate human cost of war news
Reporters Sans Frontieres invites journalists, UN agencies and military personnel to discuss safety and protection for war correspondants
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BBC Worldwide sacks fraud suspect Taylor
Director of global marketing is dismissed as ICAC launches investigation into illegal commissions imposed on suppliers in Hong Kong
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TALKBACK RESHUFFLE
Talkback Productions has restructured its senior management team, handing managing director Peter Fincham the new title of chief executive. Sally Debonnaire has been promoted to managing director, while head of factual
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PRE-SCHOOL SHORTLIST
The BBC is to wait until after Christmas to announce who has won the huge new pre-school commission that will replace the Teletubbies. The corporation has decided that the schedule was
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes
Granada Content director of programmes, north John Whiston and The Street's Norman Curly Watts. In previous lives, Whiston was in charge of mopping elephant droppings from Johnny Morris' cap on Animal
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NTL SHEDS MORE JOBS
NTL has announced a new series of cost-cutting measures including a redundancy programme which will see a further 2,000 jobs axed. The cuts, which follow plans to cut another 2,000 jobs,
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INTERACTIVE PROMOTION
Channel 4 interactive chief operating officer Peter Pedersen has been promoted to chief technology officer for 4 Ventures, following last month's creation of the digital services group. Working alongside head of
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INTERVIEW - Hitting the jackpot
In an industry often more concerned with quality programme making than profit making, Celador International managing director Ellis Watson is a blast of fresh air.He's a man with a very clear
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GWR SELLS LICENCES
Speculation is mounting that cash-strapped GWR is about to sell its remaining six AM Classic Gold licences to UBC Media. Sources said a deal was expected at the end of this
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - WINCHESTER PURCHASE
Production company Winchester Entertainment has bought its creative partner Optical Image, a leading provider of facilities in the Midlands. The two companies have worked together on Jellabies (Jellikins in the UK)
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - NEW TROUBLE IDENTS
Flextech creative services has created a new series of idents for youth channel Trouble to air from 1 January. Commissioned by creative director Kerry Taylor, the idents feature MCs from a
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Thompson faces immediate test
After some last-minute discussion of a surprise candidate from AOL Time Warner in the US, the Channel 4 board appeared to have taken the most obvious and cheaper option after Endemol
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Govt to review digi spectrum
The Government has this week invited comments on the future of spectrum for digital terrestrial TV (DTT) over a three-month consultation period.The move follows publication of a digital action plan by
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TX - The devil you know
When writer Andrew Davies first talked to ITV about doing a modern adaptation of a Shakespeare play, it was The Tempest that was uppermost in his mind.By his own admission, the
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RTL/TEAMTALK DEAL DONE
TeamTalk Media Group has finalised its deal with RTL to buy 80 per cent of Atlantic 252.Talks between the two groups were finalised last Tuesday (4 December) for the£2m stake
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RATINGS - Viewers warmed to Cold Feet down under
Sunshine frolics in Sydney Harbour from the cast of Cold Feet proved more of a pull than the maverick musings of Judge John Deed this week, writes Ellie White.
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CINTEL PROMOTES WELSH
Cintel has promoted Adam Welsh, who has been with the company for 18 years, to become its managing director. Welsh, a former president of Cintel's US business, will help oversee the
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WEAKEST LINK CHINA
Weakest Link is set to be screened in China from February following a deal between UK-based distributor ECM and advertising company MindWorks. MindWorks plans to produce a Mandarin version of the