All Broadcast articles in 27 August 1999
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OFF THE RECORD - Off side
It's good to know the BBC can still laugh at itself, despite the fact it has only two live football matches this season after the rest of the rights were snapped
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THE PEOPLE'S VETS TO RETURN FOR A SECOND SERIES
Shearman Productions' observational documentary The People's Vets has been commissioned for a second series by ITV controller of documentaries and features Grant Mansfield. The 6 x 30-minute second run - which
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SKY NEWS TOPS POLL
More digital satellite viewers watch Sky News than its rival 24-hour news channels CNN International and BBC News 24, according to a survey from BMRB. The research into digital homes, carried
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New twists in Nova TV saga
US cosmetics mogul Ronald Lauder, the founder of Central European Media Enterprises (CME), is seeking damages from the Czech Republic government for allegedly failing to protect CME's investment in Nova TV, write Jason Deans and Scott Macmillan.
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OFF THE RECORD - The naked truth
Channel 4's cricket coverage faced its first major test last week when a couple of streakers ran onto the Oval pitch during England's defeat by New Zealand. The BBC, older readers
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MILLIONAIRE? RETURNS
The next run of ITV ratings blockbuster Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is expected to begin next Friday (3 September). The BBC 1 scheduling team was working to adjust its
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SIMPSON TAKES NEW POST AS MILLENNIUM REPORTER
BBC News has created the new position of millennium correspondent to report on events and issues surrounding the arrival of the year 2000.Emma Simpson, currently a general news reporter, will report
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VALDES-SCOTT TAKES MIDNIGHT TRANSFER FROM POSTBOX
Midnight Transfer has appointed Alice Valdes-Scott as facility manager. She joins having spent the past four years at Postbox, part of the TVP Group, where she was facilities co-ordinator. Valdes-Scott said
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OFF THE RECORD - Middle-age spread
Older readers won't have any trouble recognising Off The Record's favourite seventies band the Osmonds. But who is the stranger among them?Why, it's none other than Channel 5 spinmeister LesleyAnne Saville,
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Millionaire? set to make a mint in US
The US version of Celador Productions' smash-hit ITV gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? looks set to repeat its runaway success Stateside, after debuting strongly on ABC last week.ABC has
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OFF THE RECORD - Off line
Those good people at On Digital were rightly proud of their tie-up with Demon Internet to provide the digital operator's email services last week.But On Digital execs with a Demon address
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MIP INTERACTIVE WEBSITE RIDES A WAVE OF NET SURFERS
Reed Midem's recently enhanced Mip Interactive website notched up 48,000 page views in June, according to statistics just released. The Mip Interactive site offers 24-hour access to a database of more
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NEW TRAINING INITIATIVE
Former United Broadcasting and Entertainment chief executive Roger Laughton is to chair a new government training initiative, The Department of Media/Skillset Broadcast Training Group. The group, which will be made up
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HOWSON MOVES TO ITV
ITV has named Nicola Howson as its new director of corporate affairs, reporting to ITV chief executive Richard Eyre. In her new role, Howson, currently vice-president, corporate affairs at pay-TV outfit
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GRASS VALLEY PICKS PHIPPS AS VICE-PRESIDENT
Grass Valley Group, the new company formed by venture capitalist Dr Terence Gooding and former Tektronix VND president Tim Thorsteinson, has appointed John Phipps as vice-president Europe, Africa and the Middle
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Granada signs up Sorvino
Granada Entertainment USA (GEU) has signed Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino for an adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, which will debut on cable network A&E in the
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GOLDEN SQUARE POST HIRES INFERNO OPERATOR HENCHER
New commercials facility Golden Square Post has appointed Sam Hencher as Inferno/Fire operator. Hencher (left) joins after spells freelancing for The Mill, Red Post and Sky Television. Prior to that he
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UDEN GRABS NEEDHAM FOR LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT MOVE
Factual specialist Uden Associates has recruited Delissa Needham from Rapido TV in a bid to break into entertainment programming. Needham, who joins in the newly created role of head of entertainment,
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ENERGY STRIKES GOLD
The Energy Film Library, one of the leading libraries for film images, has struck an agreement with Universal Studios to represent a collection of licensable material from the Universal Film Library.
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EDINBURGH: NEXT GENERATION - A WHO'S WHO OF THE TELEVISION INDUSTRY'S RISING TWENTY-SOMETHING STARS
DRAMA DIRECTORTOM HOOPER, 26Hooper's directing career got off to a flying start when his short film Painted Faces was broadcast on C4 when he was just 18. Spotted by EastEnders executive