All Broadcast articles in 14 January 2000
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Granada to receive OFT reply by February 7
Media group has less than four weeks before it learns whether plans to acquire Carlton or United will be approved
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Channel 4 launches£15 million internet strategy
Broadcaster to launch four new sites and revamp Channel4.com
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Channel 4 launches£15 million internet strategy on telly
Broadcaster to launch four new sites and revamp Channel4.com
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Former Kiss FM DJ Sarah HB moves to Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 has recruited former Kiss FM DJ Sarah HB to host a new Sunday morning breakfast show, The Breakfast Club. The presenter, who was at Kiss FM for eight
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Media 100 boosts internet strategy
Media 100 has announced another acquisition in its bid to become an industry leader in video streaming tools for the internet.It has bought Digital Origin (formerly Radius), which makes the low-cost
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Landmark Travel Channel is launching Travel Shop Direct as a sister service to its existing Travel Channel, which will enable viewers to watch 15-minute videos of holiday destinations, then phone a
Landmark Travel Channel is launching Travel Shop Direct as a sister service to its existing Travel Channel, which will enable viewers to watch 15-minute videos of holiday destinations, then phone a
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Independent Case TV is producing a 30-minute animated version of Wagner's 15-hour opera The Ring Cycle for Channel 4
Independent Case TV is producing a 30-minute animated version of Wagner's 15-hour opera The Ring Cycle for Channel 4, writes Ashley Davies.Ordered by commissioning editor, schools Paul Ashton, the production extracts
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Trouble and Bravo forge links with J17 and Loaded
Flextech channels Trouble and Bravo are extending their masthead programming with a number of mini-shows based on and linked with teenage style magazine J17 and lads' title Loaded. The Loaded Weekend
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BBC 2 commissions award-winning play for screen
BBC 2 has commissioned a TV version of the winner of the 1999 Dennis Potter Play of the Year award, writer Lin Coghlan's First Communion Day. Produced by Tigerlily Films for
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Three bid for 2nd digital London radio multiplex
Details were unveiled this week of the three rival bids to run the second digital radio multiplex in London, writes John Plunkett.The bidders include the two unsuccessful applicants for the first
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C5 NEWS EDITOR WILLIAMS TO HEAD BBC 2 LIVE POLITICS
BBC News has appointed Channel 5 News programme editor Jon Williams to be editor, live political programmes. He will oversee daily live political programmes on BBC 2, including Westminster Live and
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Liquid Television Graphics has created the titles for Tiger Aspect's Perfect World, a new BBC 2 sitcom featuring comedian Paul Kay. Specially shot footage of Kay shows him performing a series
Liquid Television Graphics has created the titles for Tiger Aspect's Perfect World, a new BBC 2 sitcom featuring comedian Paul Kay. Specially shot footage of Kay shows him performing a series
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C4 unveils plans for new websites
Channel 4 has unveiled a£15 million plan to launch entertainment, film, horse racing and education internet sites and portals and to relaunch Channel4.com this year.Reporting to C4 director of strategy
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C4 set to bring Big Brother to UK
Channel 4 is close to commissioning Bazal to produce a UK version of Big Brother, the controversial Endemol-owned show at the centre of a legal battle between subsidiary John de Mol
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Twin resignations leave gaps at C4
Channel 4 is on the hunt for two new commissioning chiefs following the resignations of commissioning editor, daytime, Julia Foote LeStage, and deputy commissioning editor, independent film and video Jacquie Lawrence.LeStage
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INTERVIEW - Drama at Channel 5
Following a rap on the knuckles from the ITC last year for the low level of drama production, Channel 5's head of drama Corinne Hollingworth hopes to rectify matters this year, with a 103 per cent increase in her budget.
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Abbott pens Sons and Lovers script
Award-winning writer Paul Abbott is adapting DH Lawrence's 20th century classic Sons and Lovers for a four-part BBC 1 series expected to air in 2001, writes Tim Dams.