All Broadcast articles in 16 March 2001 – Page 2
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Lookalikes.
Quake in fear at this pair of beefcakes: Sky publicity chief John Brissenden and mafioso Benedetto Spera. One extorts favours by threatening to kneecap his helpless victims while the other was
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Wrestling is 'like a soap opera'.
The majority of TV viewers regard wrestling as 'harmless entertainment' on a par with soap operas, despite continual complaints about the dangers of the sport and its mistreatment of women, writes Jon Rogers.
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TRADE TALK - A northern light.
Controller of features at Yorkshire Tyne Tees Bridget Boseley is credited with 'an enormous sense of mischief' and embarks on her biggest project yet.
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Reality key part of Wellbeing Network.
Granada/Boots joint-venture The Wellbeing Network, which launched this week, is broadcasting a reality TV strand as a key component of its launch line-up.Wellbeing 100, produced by Yorkshire Television, follows the lives
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INTERVIEW - The Shaw touch.
Channel 5 senior controller news, current affairs and documentaries Chris Shaw has managed to win favourable press attention with 'grown-up' documentaries. But his reality show, Touch the Truck, and taking news out of peaktime will ensure C5 doesn't garne
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NTL scraps spring interactive plans.
NTL has scrapped plans for a spring roll-out of its enhanced TV service following major technical problems, writes Simon Ellery.
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Rapture and IPC in TV initiative.
Rapture TV, United Business Media's (UBM) loss-making dance music channel, has struck a deal to produce an interactive masthead strand with IPC's Muzik Magazine, writes Simon Ellery.
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Whittaker hired for London News post.
London News Network (LNN) has filled the gap left by head of factual Lindsay Charlton's departure, appointing executive producer Bob Whittaker to the role, writes Colin Robertson.
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RFU to go into TV production.
The Rugby Football Union is drawing up plans to set up a Twickenham-based TV production outfit that could lead to the launch of the UK's first rugby channel.RFU commercial director Paul
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TV trade gap with US soars.
The deficit between the value of British television exports and imports leapt by more than 60 per cent from£248m in 1998 to£403m in 1999, writes John Lewis.
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FOOT AND MOUTH FOCUS.
Tigress Productions has been commissioned by Channel 4 to produce a nightly current affairs strand on the foot and mouth crisis, writes Katy Elliott.
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More footie stations for Radio First.
Radio First has announced plans to launch up to three more Premiership football club radio stations this year after signing a distribution deal with BSkyB, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Hallmark plans VOD by year end.
The Hallmark Channel is in talks to launch a video-on-demand (VOD) service within the year, writes Simon Ellery.
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DYKE PROMISES ENGLISH REGIONAL SHOWS.
BBC director general Greg Dyke re-affirmed his commitment to develop programming for the English regions in a speech made to the Birmingham Newspaper Press Fund last Friday (9 March). He said
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HEAVEN GROWS DRY-HIRE.
Edit Heaven is expanding into the dry-hire business with the addition of three Avid systems to its X site. Founder Bryan Comley said he chose Avid in response to clients' requests.
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On Digital sport takes shape.
On Digital has made a clutch of new appointments in the first wave of hirings for its premium sports channel, which launches this summer, writes Simon Ellery.
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MXR PICKS UP NORTH-WEST DIGITAL LICENCE.
The MXR consortium has won its fourth regional digital licence in a row after the Radio Authority awarded it the franchise for north-west England. The group, which includes Chrysalis Radio, Capital
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DIGITAL VIEWING HABITS - The television divisions.
Twenty-seven per cent of households have digital TV. They are a critical group for programme makers, schedulers, strategists and channel controllers. Tim Ewington and Rachel Addley look at digital's viewers and their habits.
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ITV in digital satellite deal.
ITV has taken the first steps towards appearing on Sky Digital after concluding a deal this week with a Luxembourg-based satellite company to broadcast via digital satellite by the end of
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PERFORMANCE IN THREE-YEAR EUROARTS DEAL.
Arts channel Performance has struck a three-year output deal with German producer and distributor EuroArts for at least 100 hours of programming. Fifty hours have already been selected for 2001 and