All Broadcast articles in 31 March 2000 – Page 6
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VIEWERS TO CHOOSE POP GROUP COURTESY OF BBC
GMG Endemol Entertainment arm Initial is working on Pop Pickers, which will form part of the BBC's forthcoming live music event Music Live, due to air between 25 and 29 May.
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DEVERELL MOVES TO NEW MEDIA AT BBC NEWS
BBC News controller of strategy and marketing Richard Deverell has been made BBC News head of new media, a post created by BBC News chief executive Tony Hall's review of the
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Yes signs BBC video-on-demand contract
Video-on-demand (vod) broadcaster Yes Television has secured two new deals with BBC Worldwide and pay-per-view (ppv) film outfit u'direct, writes Colin Robertson.Under the terms of the two-year BBC deal, Yes gains
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TIDMARSH TO BUILD FACTUAL BRANDS FOR BBC WORLDWIDE
BBC Worldwide's global marketing and brand development division has appointed Alix Tidmarsh as general manager factual group, with a brief to build brands and properties for the factual genre. She started
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RENDELL'S LAST WEXFORD BEGINS PRODUCTION THIS WEEK
Blue Heaven has begun production on the last ever Ruth Rendell mystery featuring Inspector Wexford. Harm Done, for United Productions and ITV, starts shooting this week. The two-hour episode - the
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BELLIS QUITS GRANADA'S TONIGHT SHOW TO SET UP INDIE
Tonight with Trevor MacDonald senior producer Nigel Bellis is leaving Granada TV to set up Manchester-based indie Lead Dog Productions. Bellis, whose credits also include the 1996 RTS award-winning Last Post
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Bernard Heyes Design created the content graphics and styling for the Equinox special Meningitis: Search for a Cure. Commissioned by Windfall Films' Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, the programme features seve
Bernard Heyes Design created the content graphics and styling for the Equinox special Meningitis: Search for a Cure. Commissioned by Windfall Films' Jeremy Llewellyn-Jones, the programme features seven minutes of 3D
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ENTREPRENEURS SET UP N-JOY RADIO BID FOR WEST MIDLANDS
A group of entrepreneurs have banded together to create radio company N-joy Radio to bid for the new West Midlands analogue regional radio licence next month. N-joy non-executive chairman will be
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Controversy rages over Mip bookings
Online distribution companies have claimed that Reed Midem has banned them from hiring stand space in the extended palais at Mip-TV because they pose a threat to its own web service,
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BROADBENT SIGNED BY RAPTURE TO HEAD BUYING DRIVE
Satellite and cable youth channel Rapture Television is planning a move into programming acquisitions and has drafted in former Carlton TV acquisitions executive John Broadbent to head the drive. Broadbent, previously
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Bullivant to quit Eva for TV-Loonland
Eva Entertainment director of animation John Bullivant is to quit the Pearson-owned outfit to set up a UK office for leading German animation producer TV-Loonland, writes David Wood.
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WILLIAMS IS NEW HEAD OF BUSINESS AT NICKELODEON GNV
Nickelodeon Global Network Ventures has named Courtney Williams as head of business and network development, Europe. Williams, who will be based in London, previously managed the channel's launch throughout the Asia
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Gardam calls for Future TV pitches
Channel 4 director of programmes Tim Gardam has called for producers to send in more ideas for Future TV after a disappointing level of proposals first time around.The Friday night strand
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SHENFIELD MOVES UP TO CEO AT THE MILL GROUP
Robin Shenfield, currently managing director of the Mill and one of the founders of the facility, has been appointed chief executive of the Mill Group, which also includes Mill Film and
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LOYALTY SCHEME GIVES SKY DIGITAL FANS PRIZE CHANCE
Sky Digital has set up a new loyalty scheme that gives its customers the chance to win a mix of prizes, some of which have been developed in conjunction with the
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Choice commissions two original sitcoms
BBC Choice has commissioned two new sitcoms as part of its drive to air occasional high-budget original programming, writes Tim Dams.
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VOLVO OCEAN RACE SOLD FOR HIGHLIGHTS TO ITV COMPANIES
United Sport has secured deals with all the ITV companies to take 9 x 30-minute programmes covering the Volvo Ocean Race to form part of their regional slates next September. A
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GMTV CONFIRMATION
GMTV this week confirmed the appointment of executive producer Martin Frizell as editor, as predicted in Broadcast (24.3.00). Head of community projects Helen McMurray has also been given a new role
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FA CUP AND ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS TO TENDER
Broadcasting rights to FA Cup and England matches from the start of the next football season will be added next week to the bundle of football broadcasting rights up for grabs.
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TAPS LAUNCHES ONLINE DATABASE OF WRITERS
A new national writers database has been launched by the Television Arts Performance Showcase (Taps) and the West London Training and Enterprise Council. The intention is to bridge the gap between