All Broadcast articles in 16 March 2001 – Page 5
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FREE TO AIR - Unhappy bedfellows.
Tempted as I am to write lyrically and lengthily about the utter joyful brilliance of Celebrity Big Brother and Vanessa's live breakdown, I fear the job has been done better elsewhere.
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Convergence top of the DVB agenda.
Convergence between TV and the internet and interactive television will be the technologies that dominate the next agenda of the Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB), it was announced last week at the DVB World 2001 conference in Dublin, writes Nick R
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SKILLSET ADDS THREE BOARD MEMBERS.
Training organisation Skillset has appointed three new board members - managing director of Discovery Networks Europe Joyce Taylor, Channel 4 head of human resources Peter Meier and Pact chief executive John
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ANOTHER TWO THOUSAND ACRES OF SKY.
Zenith Entertainment has been commissioned by BBC Scotland to make a second series of Two Thousand Acres of Sky (left) for BBC 1. The original cast will return for the series
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Rebecca Segal, senior vice-president, BBC programme acquisition, USA.
On the US networks' rush to dodge actors' and writers' strikes with reality game shows.
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MOVES AT AARDMAN.
Liz Keynes has been promoted to the position of executive producer at animation house Aardman. Formerly head of marketing and licensing at the company, she joined in 1994. She will focus
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50 PER CENT RISE FOR HIT.
Hit Entertainment, the production company behind Bob the Builder and Barney the Dinosaur, this week reported a 50 per cent rise in pre-tax profits in its first interim results since it
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4 later budgets go up but hours are cut.
Channel 4 has unveiled details of its plan to revamp its late-night programming slot 4Later, writes Steve Aston.
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NEW C4 INDIE CONTACT.
Channel 4's independent relations department is to be temporarily overseen by managing editor for commissioning Janey Walker while Jacqueline Stewart goes on maternity leave. The first point of call during Stewart's
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Bazalgette to join C4's board.
Endemol Entertainment UK creative director Peter Bazalgette has been appointed to the board of Channel 4, writes Steve Aston.
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RATINGS - Channel 4 larges it with Celebrity Big Brother.
The week's major news event - the BBC 1 and Channel 4 collaboration Celebrity Big Brother - once again had a dramatic impact on C4's audience share, but wasn't such a top performer for BBC 1, writes Jon Rogers.
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YTTTP TO MAKE HISTORY OF SEX SHOW FOR C4.
Channel 4 commissioning editor for entertainment Sue Murphy has ordered a 3 x 60-minute series from Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Productions charting the history of sex on TV. The series, which
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DIGITAL BBC 2 TO LAUNCH IN DEVOLVED REGIONS.
Digital versions of BBC 2 will be launched on 30 April in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The move will provide viewers in the nations with access to digital versions of
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I2I PICKS UP FIVE DISCOVERY H&L PROJECTS.
Discovery Home & Leisure has handed five new commissions totalling more than 37 hours to independent production outfit i2i. Top of the list is 15 x 30-minute gardening series Veg Out
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RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 25 FEBRUARY - BBC 2 has a Tuesday night winner with Paul Daniels.
When you consider the amount of effort ITV made to move News at Ten, it is remarkable the network hasn't made a greater attempt to shift its mandatory regional programmes out
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NEW CHAIR FOR BEAT 106.
Former chairman of Border Television James Graham has been appointed chairman of central Scotland radio station Beat 106. The appointment is the latest in a number of changes at the station,
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Taste to order 1,000 hours of new shows.
Taste, the rebranded Carlton Food Network (CFN) service, plans to commission up to 1,000 hours of new programming this year and is bringing in US cash to fund programmes.New channel director
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Barwick admits BBC and ITV World Cup joint-coverage deal is under threat
ITV sport boss expresses fears as Kirch legal argument gathers pace but both broadcasters remain 'committed' to football's biggest tournament
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Working Title in 'exploratory' talks with Tiger Aspect
Bridget Jones and Notting Hill producer understood to be negotiating bid for Rowan Atkinson's part-owned indie
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LWT votes for reality TV supremo
Appoints former factual producer to oversee reality TV projects as soap-based follow up to Popstars prepares for lift-off