All Broadcast articles in 22 October 1999
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Wonder years
Shows like C4's Pornography prove that World of Wonder's Fenton Bailey is as at home with boned-up docs as pop ephemera, reports David Wood.
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TELETUBBY SPEAKS
Teletubbies creator and creative head of Ragdoll Productions Anne Wood is to take a session in the 1999 British Design & Art Direction's president's lecture series. In a speech entitled Whatever
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Sowerbutts moves to United Wildlife
Itel deputy chief executive and head of programming Paul Sowerbutts is leaving the distributor after 12 years to take up the post of managing director at United News & Media (UNM)
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Two Ronnies reunite for millennium night
Legendary comedy duo The Two Ronnies are to reunite on screen to perform new material together for the first time in 12 years as part of the BBC's millennium night special,
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OFF THE RECORD - Top of the league
New marriage is obviously suiting Rupert Murdoch, who was in perky form at BSkyB's annual general meeting last week. After announcing that 2.4 per cent of Sky's shareholders had voted against
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JENKINS QUITS RAJAR
Peter Jenkins, executive director of Rajar, will leave the radio audience research company in April. There is no replacement lined up for Jenkins and the Rajar board is set to meet
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SEVEN-YEAR ITCH SPURS MARTIN TO JOIN STATIC
Broadcast design company Static has taken on former Carlton Television design director Jackie Martin. Heading up a team of 14 designers, Martin is expected to spearhead a move into print and
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Intergraph shares slide
Shares in troubled computer manufacturer Intergraph Corporation fell to a 52-week low last week after a federal judge reversed an earlier decision in the company's long-running legal battle with chip-maker Intel.Intergraph
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Henwood joins TV rush to interactive
Fox Kids UK managing director Rod Henwood is quitting the channel to set up a new interactive venture targeting children and teenagers.Henwood, who leaves at the end of this year, is
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PATTY MAKER JOINS HEART
Chrysalis Radio has announced the appointment of Wade Lyn to the board of 100.7 Heart fm and Galaxy 102.2. Lyn, who will be a non-executive director, is managing director of Birmingham-based
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ITC NEARS GUNS VERDICT
An Independent Television Commission ruling on Ray Fitzwalter Associates' Guns on the Street documentary for Channel 4 is expected this week. Commission members are due to discuss the accusations of fakery
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LA PLANTE PLAYS MIND GAMES FOR ITV
Filming began this week on La Plante Productions' new ITV drama, Mind Games. The 2 x 60-minute drama, which stars Fiona Shaw as a police psychological profiler, will be filmed on
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Pukka Post finalises takeover of The Muse
Pukka Post, the post-production arm of production company Pukka Films, has completed a takeover of facilities house The Muse (formerly known as 3DTV).Pukka Films founder Paul Katis declined to comment on
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US TV stations join Sinclair's lobby of FCC
Sinclair Broadcast Group's attempts to lobby US regulator the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow digital television broadcast using the DVB-T COFDM transmission system stepped up a gear last week as
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INTERVIEW - Keeper of the faith
News 24 and BBC World offered viewers a ringside seat at the Paddington rail disaster and the military coup in Pakistan, says Tim Orchard, as he makes the case for the BBC rolling news and global channels he runs.
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Favourites emerge for UK Gold job
Three front-runners have emerged as favourites to take over as channel editor of UK Gold, writes Tim Dams.BBC Choice programming executive Katy Thorogood, UK Gold assistant channel editor Sarah Dewhurst and
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OFF THE RECORD - Eat my shorts
Shock news from Off The Record's favourite Christian radio station, Premier, which was proud to announce this month the hiring of a big-name presenter for one of its evangelical slots. Knowing
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DNI and Hit fund elephant doc
Discovery Networks International (DNI) and Hit Wildlife are jointly funding a groundbreaking documentary about the behavioural patterns of a herd of elephants, writes Annie Dare.The production will use a specially commissioned