All Broadcast articles in 25 June 1999
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Yentob spearheads BBC 1 health check
BBC Broadcast director of television Alan Yentob has been charged with leading a review of the entire BBC 1 schedule, following concerns that the main channel is straying from its public
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BBC policy chief moves to Number 10
BBC controller of corporate strategy Ed Richards is leaving the corporation to join the policy unit at No 10 Downing Street, writes Dominic Timms.
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C4 hires 10 indies to work in Comedy Lab
Ten independent production companies have picked up commissions to make shows for the second series of Channel 4's new talent 'nursery slope', Comedy Lab, writes Tim Dams.
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MEDIA 100 BACK IN THE BLACK
Media 100 has reported its first profitable quarter for over two years.Figures for the second quarter ending 31 May showed the non-linear editing manufacturer made a net profit of $177,000 (£110,000)
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News Special: Tim Dams on the 1998-99 BBC Annual Report - Programming squeezed
BBC 1 saw its programming budget heavily squeezed last year, as the corporation ploughed extra resources into new services.Figures published this week in the BBC Annual Report 1998-99 show that£752
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News Special: 1998-99 BBC Annual Report - Briefs
Independent producers are estimated to have supplied 27 per cent of qualifying BBC programmes in the report, a fall from 29 per cent last year.BBC 1 saw its current affairs, music
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News Special: 1998-99 BBC Annual Report - Resources posts loss
The report saw BBC Resources Ltd publish its first stand-alone accounts, write Dominic Timms and Tim Dams.As expected, BBC Resources Ltd posted a pre-tax loss on ordinary activities of£5.6 million
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News Special: 1998-99 BBC Annual Report - Governors praise radio for bigger audiences and better schedules
BBC network radio was given a much-needed slap on the back by Sir John Birt and the governors for building audiences and improving schedules last year.But concerns were expressed about BBC
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News Special: 1998-99 BBC Annual Report - Verdict from the top
FACTUALBIRT: 'BBC1 transmits a much greater proportion of factual programming in peaktime than does ITV. Science output was among the most successful of the year ... history documentaries continued to provide
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ITV2 acquires Hot Sands
ITV2 director of programmes Brian Barwick has acquired the rights to Hot Sands: Beach Volleyball from Prisma Sports & Media, writes Jason Deans. The 12 x 30 and 1 x 60-minute
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Radio 3 to support new generations of musicians
BBC Radio 3 is to broadcast a new strand designed to support young musicians, New Generations, from 20 September. Produced by BBC classical music, the initiative follows on from the Young
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Megalomedia posts£5.3m pre-tax losses
Megalomedia, the AIM-listed investment company that owns Soho facilities FrameStore and The Computer Film Company (CFC), has posted a pre-tax loss of£5.3 million for the year ending 31 March.Last year
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Straight wins raft of commissions for Granada and C4
Manchester independent Straight TV has picked up a string of new commissions from Granada TV and Channel 4. Granada has booked two regional shows.The first - with a working title of
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Happiness dissected in new Radio 4 series
BBC religion is producing a four-part series based on the annual Happiness Lecture held at the University of Birmingham for BBC Radio 4. The lecture, which features prominent individuals discussing what
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C4 up for parole in Century Films doc
Channel 4's documentary department has greenlit a major series about the Parole Board and a hybrid docu-drama set on a Leeds council estate.Century Films has gained wide access to the board,
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Dickie Bird, Mark Ramprakash and Alex Tudor feature in the title sequence for Channel 4's debut Test Cricket programming. Created by small independent production company The Vision Consultancy (TVC),
Dickie Bird, Mark Ramprakash and Alex Tudor feature in the title sequence for Channel 4's debut Test Cricket programming. Created by small independent production company The Vision Consultancy (TVC), the titles
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Sparks fly over C4 remit
Channel 4 may no longer be seen as a minority channel, but in the light of the growth of such populist shows as Blaze Jason Deans asks if it is still fulfilling its public service commitments.
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Festival adapts Cookson novel for ITV
Festival Film & TV has been commissioned by ITV to make its fourteenth Catherine Cookson adaptation, The Secret. The three-hour mini-series is due to go into production at the end of
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CANAL+ LOSES APPEAL AGAINST COURT FINE
Canal+ has lost its appeal against last November's FFr10 million (£1 million) court-imposed fine for abusing its dominant position in French film-financing to secure secondary TV licensing windows. The initial ruling
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Scots tabby to air on kids' ITV
ITV controller of children's and youth programmes Nigel Pickard has commissioned children's animation series Meeow from Siriol Productions and Scottish Television Enterprises (STE), writes Jason Deans.