All Broadcast articles in 20 August 1999 – Page 5
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GRAY GETS UN&M ROLE
United News & Media (UNM) chief executive Clive Hollick has recruited Bernard Gray, personal advisor to Defence Secretary George Robertson, to take the newly created role of director of group strategy.
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ROGERS PRESENTS A ROUGH HISTORY FOR UK HORIZONS
BBC/Flextech joint-venture channel UK Horizons has commissioned a 10 x 30-minute series from Granada TV telling the anecdotal history of some of the UK's more unusual places of historical interest. A
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OFF THE RECORD - Porn to the job
As if having to make Live TV's piss-poor soft porn wasn't bad enough, now long-suffering staffers have to watch it as well. Off The Record's moles at the cable channel reveal
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OFF THE RECORD - Priory knowledge
It's quite like old times at Ealing Studios - home of the Ealing comedies - these days. Could it be because Granada's latest hilarious comedy dramas, The Royle Family and Bob
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NTL POSTS QUARTERLY LOSS
NTL, the US-listed group set to become the UK's biggest cable provider after its£8 billion acquisition of Cable and Wireless Communications' cable TV assets, reported a net loss of $348
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Trouble scoops rights to Malibu and One World
Flextech-owned teen channel Trouble has concluded a deal with US distributor NBC International for the rights to two new series for the autumn schedule, writes Alice Macandrew.The deal, which extends the
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OFF THE RECORD - Subs on manoeuvres
Seasoned Edinburgh TV festival-goers will know the city is full of hazards at the end of August - and I'm not just talking about drunks in the George Bar. But this
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Think tank probes media regulation
The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) is to launch a year-long programme of research and debate to scrutinise programming, new technologies and media regulation.The project, which comes in the wake
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Morrow quits Ulster for Wild Rover
Ulster Television (UTV) head of general programmes Philip Morrow is leaving the company to set up his own Belfast-based indie, Wild Rover Productions.Morrow, who has been in his current post since
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OFF THE RECORD - Tonight's news
It's been a good week for ITV's scoopmungous current affairs strand Tonight.First, the Independent Television Commission ruled that, despite 15 complaints, Tonight's Martin Bashir interview with the Stephen Lawrence suspects did
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Tiger poaches Osman
Tiger Aspect Productions has recruited writer and producer Richard Osman from rival indie Hat Trick Productions to develop and produce entertainment, comedy and factual shows, writes Jason Deans.Specific projects Osman will
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Worldwide sets sail with Yohos
BBC Worldwide has stumped up£1.3 million to fund Yoho Ahoy, a new 52 x 5-minute pre-school model animation series, writes Tim Dams.Set aboard a pocket-sized pirate ship, Yoho Ahoy was
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