All Broadcast articles in 25 June 1999 – Page 5

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    OFF THE RECORD - A plague on your house

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Sources in the book trade rumour that the BBC's multi-talented deputy director of television and new services David Docherty is so busy mapping the BBC's future that he's found time to

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    Knapp in plea for programme ideas

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    NTL chief executive and president Barclay Knapp has issued a plea to programme-makers to approach the cable outfit with new content ideas for the digital future.Delivering the Royal Television Society (RTS)

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    INTERVIEW - The popular touch

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Departing the BBC after 20 years, Peter Dale found himself fighting fakery claims as head of C4 documentaries. Now that the channel is shedding its 'minority' tag, his latest challenge is to introduce genuinely popular fare.

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    ITV network makes plans for Tonight

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    The ITV network is considering proposals to change the format of new current affairs flagship show Tonight - with Trevor McDonald, writes Alice Macandrew.

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    Saturday morning kids' show scores second run

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Zenith Entertainment has had Saturday morning Ant and Dec vehicles SMTV:Live and CD:UK reordered for a further year, writes Jason Deans.

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    Molinare suspends manager

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Molinare facilities manager Mark Woodroffe has been suspended following a number of alleged complaints from other members of staff.Woodroffe, who was promoted to facilities manager less than five months ago, was

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    MURDOCH MEETS MESSIER FOR TALKS

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    News Corp and BSkyB chairman Rupert Murdoch and Vivendi chairman Jean-Marie Messier met last week to discuss areas of co-operation, including the possibility of establishing a European TV production operation, according

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    Parry-Davies to shut Rewind Productions

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Rewind Media Group chief executive Chris Parry-Davies is attempting to wind up the radio production arm of the company, Rewind Productions, write John Plunkett and Liz Shackleton.

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    OFF THE RECORD - Secrets and spies

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    As a hyphenate novelist-TV exec, Docherty will of course be familiar with the way an author's work is frequently refashioned for television.Only last week at Canada's Banff TV Festival, for example,

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    Soap rubs off

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    Brookside an educational show? 'Tis so, says Liz Warner, commissioning editor at Channel 4, who argues that educational programming must quit the ghetto to survive.