All Broadcast articles in 22 November 2002 – Page 4
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Capital fears metropolitan focus is costing listeners
Capital 95.8 FM has begun a major study of its audience following concerns that its dramatic loss of listeners was prompted by the station becoming too metropolitan, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Figures herald broadband gain
Interactive producers received a much-needed shot in the arm this week after it emerged that the rate of high-speed internet take-up could soon outstrip demand for digital television, writes David Wood
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NewsBBC restructures entertainment
The BBC's in-house entertainment production department is to be reorganised into four new groups overseen by separate creative heads to give it more focus and cut down competition between its two bases in Manchester and London, writes Leigh Holmwood
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News'Boys toys' obsession marred war coverage, says Damazer
News organisations produced too many reports on 'boys toys' issues such as the type of weapons being used in the coverage of the Afghanistan conflict according to BBC News deputy director Mark Damazer, writes Steve Aston
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NewsPolice strive to stop C4 autopsy
Officers at the Metropolitan Police events office in Bethnal Green, London are desperately trying to find a way of stopping Britain's first public autopsy for nearly 200 years tonight which will be screened on C4 at 23.45 tonight, writes Penny Hughes
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Oxford goes to India for drama
Factual indie Oxford Film & Television is moving into TV drama after securing a two-part series for Channel 4, writes Penny Hughes
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The BBC does a Delia on interiors
Changing Rooms star Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen is to front a new series which the BBC hopes will do for interior design what Delia Smith's How to Cookdid for food, writes Leigh Holmwood
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CITV blasts kids into outer space
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has commissioned an ambitious multimedia series that will offer kids the chance to fly a 'spacecraft', writes Steve Aston
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Capital Xmas for Five
Five has signed a deal with Endemol production arm Initial for Capital Radio's Capital Christmas Live, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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Ruby Wax to play at being pope for BBC 3
Comedian Ruby Wax and actress Jerry Hall are to provide the leading voices for a controversial new BBC 3 animation about the pope and the Catholic church. The 10 x 30-minute Popetown, to be made by indie CHX Productions in association with French outfit Moi ...
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Living TV builds links with the paranormal
Flextech channel Living TV has commissioned indie IPM to produce two one-hour paranormal specials for the Christmas period. Ordered by Living TV channel controller Richard Woolfe and commissioning editor Jane Millichip, The Three Mediumsbrings together Living TV's three psychics - Colin Fry, Derek Acorah and ...
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Superhero roach to entertain Fox Kids
Fox Kids has bought two new animated programmes from Germany and France to join its winter line-up. Roboroach, a 52 x 11-minute series from Germany's RTV Family Entertainment, follows the adventures of a superhero cockroach and will air from 6 January. ...
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Wall to Wall wins couples commission
Wall to Wall has been commissioned to make a 6 x 30-minute series for BBC 2 about the little things that drive couples mad. Five Things I Hate About You, based on a 50-minute non-broadcast pilot made by the outfit last year, was commissioned by ...
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CBeebies gives storymakers second run
Outgoing CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has commissioned a second 65 x 15-minute run of pre-school strand The Storymakersfor the CBeebies channel. The series, which features a variety of storytelling puppets who live in a library, will be produced by Claire Bradley and executive produced by ...
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NewsGovernment unveils communications bill
In a surprise clause in the final draft of its communications bill, the government has today made provisions for BSkyB to be forced to carry all public service channels, writes Luke Satchell
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Glassworks chiefs consider buy-out
Managers at Soho post-production facility Glassworks are considering a management buy-out after parent company Das Werk filed for insolvency, writes John Oates
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The Mill shuts down its film operations
One of London's leading visual effects facilities is closing its film unit, writes John Oates
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Avid direct sales to 'benefit all'
Avid Technology Europe vice-president Graham Sharp has reassured the company's clients and resellers that the decision to take some sales in-house ( Broadcast, 15 November) will be of benefit to everyone involved, writes Will Strauss
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Top RTS gong for BBC OB
The BBC OB department has won the prestigious judges' award at this week's RTS Craft and Design Awards, being praised for 'an outstanding year in event coverage'. The judges said: 'Rarely has there been a unanimous decision by the jury. The coverage, with such a diversity of content, from so ...
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Producers on move
Two of the UK's biggest 3D and visual effects companies have appointed new producers. Rushes has hired Vittorio Giannini from The Mill, while Sarah Irwin, who's background is in Henry and Inferno-based projects, has left SVC after five years to join Framestore as a senior producer