All Broadcast articles in 23 November 2001 – Page 3

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    ARRI SALES APPOINTMENT

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Camera and lighting specialist Arri GB has appointed Adrian Bottomley as general manager for lighting sales. Bottomley joins from control equipment manufacturer IMI where he was UK marketing manager. Before that,

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    Granada frets over Anglia production

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Granada senior executives are privately concerned that network production at the company's acquired Anglia TV franchise is under threat.The news comes as Granada has finally axed the United Productions brand, the

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    News Analysis - Positive signals

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    How have digital radio operators escaped the woes of other broadcasters which invested in new technology, even though no date has been set for analogue switch-off and digital radio sets are still a hefty£200?

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    Free to air - 'effing and blinding away

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    It was with some surprise that, trapped at home with terrestrial television, I heard the advance warning for the Robbie Williams spectacular on BBC 1: 'Blah ... blah ... blah ...

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    MTV to give away rights to P Diddy Aids Day special

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    MTV is to produce a one-off documentary fronted by notorious rapper P Diddy for World Aids Day on 1 December, which it plans to offer to other broadcasters free of charge, writes Simon Ellery.

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    Pickard heralds kids golden age

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    CBBC controller Nigel Pickard has unveiled details of the BBC's two new digital children's channels, which he claimed herald a 'golden age in children's programming'.The corporation's pre-school network will be called

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    Emap moves against GWR

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The Midlands city of Leicester has become an unlikely battleground for digital radio after Emap Performance stepped up its challenge to GWR's stranglehold on the city by offering to supply residents with digital radio sets for under£50, writes Georgina L

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    RAPID ADDS SMOKE

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    West London post facility Rapid Pictures has just completed a£250,000 expansion that includes the addition of Discreet high-end compositing system Smoke. The firm is also expanding its multimedia and DVD

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    Mouse and 8811 facing closure

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Duplication and post facilities 8811 and The Mouse & Keyboard will go into liquidation if a buyer is not found by the end of this month.Group managing director Glyn Bartlett said

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    New BBC drama to reveal MI5's secrets

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is hoping to lift the lid on M15 with a major six-part drama series on Britain's top secret spy service, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Top C4 execs on panel to hire new chief

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    The Channel 4 board has taken the unusual step of placing two its most senior channel executives on the interview panel that is choosing a successor to former C4 chief executive Michael Jackson, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    Anson goes in 4 Ventures cut

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 head of business planning and interactive Andy Anson has become the first casualty of the planned 15 redundancies at the broadcaster's commercial arm 4 Ventures.His departure will herald a

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    C4 to look at European migration

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    October Films has landed a major commission for Channel 4 to be directed by award-winning documentary-maker Angus Maqueen, writes Simon Ellery.

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    STRESS MANIACS ON C4

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 editor, arts and animation Camilla Deakin has commissioned indie Pesky to make a one-off animated gameshow for C4's Hot Reels: Animation Grand Prix strand, writes Jon Rogers. Fifteen-minute Stress

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    MD Pannaman quits 4MC

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    4MC CO-MANAGING director Nick Pannaman has quit the industry, claiming it is 'time for a change', writes Barbara Marshall.

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    C4 TO AIR THE WORST OF CORPORATE VIDEOS

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Code Design produced the opening titles and stings for Channel 4 Comedy Lab pastiche 'Jimmy Carr's World of Corporate Videos', a light-hearted tribute to corporate videos from the past 30 years.

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    RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 4 NOVEMBER - Heavyweight contenders square up for Christmas

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    In the heavy calibre primetime audience battle between BBC 1 and ITV 1 it's hard pounding now as the two of them lumber towards Christmas.ITV had no problems dominating Monday, Wednesday

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    New president for Static 2358

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Open TV has recruited another former senior executive of the defunct British Interactive Broadcasting (BIB), appointing Joan Gillman as president of its interactive TV subsidiary Static 2358, writes Simon Ellery.

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    NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - SHAH WINS AMIN AWARD

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    Freelance reporter Saira Shah scooped the Mohamed Amin award for her Channel 4 Dispatches programme, Beneath the Veil, which uncovered the plight of Afghan women under the Taleban regime. The award

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    NEWS SPECIAL: NEWS WORLD, BARCELONA 13-16 NOVEMBER 2001 - STRESS DISORDER STUDY

    2001-11-23T00:00:00Z

    CNN is giving financial backing to a new research project on post-traumatic stress disorder among journalists. Journalists in Disaster Zones: A Psychological Study is being carried out following the attacks in