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IMAGINA 2002 SPEAKERS
Digital Domain founder and four-time Academy Award winner Stan Winston will be the keynote speaker at the Monte Carlo-based computer graphics conference Imagina 2002. Other speakers lined up for the 20th
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LEADER - We need to define Ofcom's role
With the government's proposals on the future of cross-media ownership now out in the open (options: status quo; competition rules only to apply; different playing fields for different media; a more
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FREE TO AIR - Daytime is out of joint
Nature, as William Shakespeare noted, has turned against itself.Horses are biting each other; there is a wild and gnarly wind; night has become day and vice versa.Richard and Judy at 5pm,
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TRADE TALK - Plugging losses
Mark Brandon's appointment as head of the loss-making Channel 4 interactive signals a seachange in favour of a more commercial approach.
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IN MY VIEW - Mark Rowland
On how entertainment value and educational potential now make interactivity irresistible.
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ON THE BOX - Faking the best of it
Deep Indigo chief executive Nigel Stafford-Clark thinks Faking It has genuine appeal but gives up on Shafted.
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NEWS ANALYSIS - The ratings iceberg
Although BBC has won industry attention for successful assaults on ITV's peaktime supremacy, it is its lead in daytime and graveyard slots which might help it pull ahead and become the overall share winner in 2001.
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DIGITAL PIRACY - Sinking digital's pirates
As struggling operator ITV Digital issues a stern warning to subscribers about the use of fake smartcards to access premium services, debate rages in the industry on how best to outflank the digital pirates.
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INTERVIEW - Growing new wings
Chief executive Mick Pilsworth presided over a difficult restructuring at Chrysalis TV Group. Now he hopes Richard & Judy will continue to drive group profits.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - Soaps bubble up higher than ever
After a poor showing in 2000 when viewing figures dropped, ratings for soaps are up this year, lifted by an extra EastEnders episode, the launches of Crossroads and Night and Day and the return of Home and Away.
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TX - Watching your back
Last year Channel 4 opened a shop. They called it Khan's Convenience Store. If they were being up-front they might have called it Undercover Docs-R-Us. But of course they weren't because
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RATINGS: WEEK ENDING 11 NOVEMBER - So, what's going on in multichannel homes?
This week's top 50 table introduces new data about audiences in multichannel homes. Three new columns have been introduced to show the comparative ranking for the top 50 programmes in these
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NewsPEER POLL: Channel of the year
The latest question in Broadcast's peer poll asks: Did BBC1 deserve to win channel of the year at this week's Broadcast Awards?
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AND FINALLY...
Lisa Prime, children's awards officer at Bafta, wishes the Banana Splits would come backWhat do you sing in the shower?Show tunes and anything from GreaseWhen were you happiest?Sipping a beer in
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OFF THE RECORD - Creative gem that was hardly worth it
In a fit of generosity, Off The Record can exclusively reveal the person behind the love-it or hate-it name for the BBC's new pre-school digital channel, Cbeebies. Please step forward, CBBC
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Talking of thumbs up arses, it will probably come as no surprise to those in indie-land to hear Channel 4 drama darling Tessa Ross admit she doesn't do very much. Speaking
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OFF THE RECORD - Indie bares all about BBC pitching
Would you believe it? Another exclusive. A prominent indie has leaked info to OTR that reveals the baffling and disheartening procedure that the BBC goes through when not commissioning your programmes.
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Prime Ent sells Portman Entertainment for£1.2m
TV and media company offloads subsidiary following management buyout
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BBC bids to stem regional brain drain
Corporation to put£160,000 into new scheme designed to keep creative talent in Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast