All Broadcast articles in 24 November 2000
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Emap and MTV in dispute over music share
Rival claims launch of QTV and Kiss TV 'cannibalising' audience for The Box
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Ricochet lands sex commissions from C4
Factual specialist Ricochet Films' new Brighton-based offshoot has won its first commission, a series tackling sex issues for women for Channel 4.Ricochet South is making the 4 x 50-minute series,
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BBC and SBS hit bullseye with darts deal
BBC Sport signs three year syndication deal for Embassy World Darts Championship with Dutch broadcaster
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BBC sees World Service as insignificant, NUJ claims
Corporation accused of dismissing workers' claims because strike action will not effect domestic news output
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BBC sees World Service as insignificant NUJ claims
Corporation accused of dismissing workers' claims because strike action will not effect domestic news output
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Union Pictures ties with West 175 Media
Producer of Masterchef and new Johnny Vaughan comedy drama creates joint venture with Aim-listed media group
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OFF THE RECORD - Stroked in the nether regions
Reports reach us of audible head-scratching going on down Carlton Productions way, where elements of Birtspeak have filtered down and caused great bewilderment.Yes, even more than usual. Announcing the latest management
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OFF THE RECORD - Lookalikes
Well, look at that. Roll your eyeballs at the glittering resemblance between LWT entertainment and comedy prince and former choreographer Nigel Lythgoe - recently seconded to work on Survivor at Planet
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White paper will protect local radio
Broadcasting minister Janet Anderson last week promised the communications white paper, due out on 12 December, will take into account fears that consolidation in radio is threatening local broadcasting, writes John Lewis.
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OFF THE RECORD - The lights are on but nobody's in
Disney ubermensch Paul 'Easy Rider' Robinson was a bundle of raw testosterone last week. Having finished publicly slagging off the BBC at an RTS bash, he ran out of the room,
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STAR TV TO LAUNCH ON SKY
News Corporation-owned Asian broadcaster Star TV is launching in the UK on Sky Digital this January, as a rival service to Zee TV. It includes Indian entertainment channel Star Plus and
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INTERVIEW - The ITC's iron lady
Just a few months into her role as ITC chief, Patricia Hodgson has already cut a swathe through the operation and has plans to streamline it further, to gear it up to becoming more minimalist - and perhaps the industry's single regulator.
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Granada plans merged kids unit
Granada Media is in discussions with Carlton about pooling together their children's production departments to create a streamlined ITV kids outfit, writes Colin Robertson.
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Scrapheap goes to LA
RDF Media is to close its Bristol office and open a new production base in Los Angeles from which it will produce Scrapheap Challenge and its US version Junkyard Wars, writes Ashley Davies.
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Financial round-up
Losses at Dutch cable operator United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC) have trebled to EUR97m (£58m) in the third quarter this year, up from EUR25m (£14.8m) in the same period last year. The
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FIRST FILM AND JERWOOD IN JOINT-VENTURE
First Film Foundation and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation have joined forces to launch First Feedback, a screenwriting programme that will select 12 writers from throughout the UK and develop their projects
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Rushes offers promotions to three staff
Rushes managing director Mark Hewitt has promoted three of his management team.General manager Joce Capper has become facilities director after five years with the company. Chief engineer Tim Wharton, who joined
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - TOONS FOR SHETLAND
Factual indie Pilgrim Productions Canterbury is to set up an animation studio in the Shetland Islands. Father and daughter co-founders, Ted Harrison and Caroline Gilson have organised a pilot project in
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Researchers to gain extra funding
Glasgow-based The Research Centre for Television & Interactivity is looking to co-fund more black and Asian researchers' posts in regional independent production companies and is seeking applications for next year's researchers development programme, writ
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UK takes four out of seven Emmys
UK producers this week bagged four out of seven International Emmy Awards at this year's ceremony in New York.On Monday night (20 November), the international council of The National Academy of