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Firms eye up SGI's NT arm
Dell Computers and Hewlett Packard are the two leading candidates to take over SGI's troubled NT business, according to company insiders.Sources said Hewlett Packard, SGI chief executive Rick Belluzzo's former company,
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C4I celebrates Stack deal
Channel 4 International (C4I) has signed a worldwide distribution deal with Emmy award-winning US documentary-maker Jonathan Stack.C4I will have exclusive distribution rights to documentary series and films made by Stack through
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NewsPilot leads outdoor Treks for Nat Geo
UK indie Pilot Productions will make the fourth series of outdoor pursuits show Treks in a Wild Worldfor Nat Geo Adventure Channel in the US.
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Canterbury Tales bags four Emmys
Animated series The Canterbury Tales, an S4C/BBC Wales/HBO co-production, has picked up four Emmy Awards for outstanding individual achievement in animation.Joanna Quinn, who works at Cardiff-based Beryl Productions, has notched up
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Bosom Pals, Tiger Aspect Productions' adult animation based on work by Beryl Cook, is to have its first public airing at the Cartoon Forum in Spain next month, writes Jason Deans
Bosom Pals, Tiger Aspect Productions' adult animation based on work by Beryl Cook, is to have its first public airing at the Cartoon Forum in Spain next month, writes Jason Deans.
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VNU LANDS£1.7BN TAKEOVER OF US RATINGS COMPANY
US and Canadian ratings outfit Nielsen Media Research has agreed to a $2.7 billion (£1.7 billion) takeover offer from Dutch publisher VNU. The deal, which has been approved by the directors
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CNTS GOES ONTO THE NET AFTER SIGNAL INTERRUPTIONS
Central European Media Enterprises' (CME) Czech subsidiary CNTS has begun transmitting nightly Nova TV news bulletins on the internet, following the interruption of the terrestrial broadcast signal it was supplying to
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PEARSON ARCHIVE GAINS RIGHTS TO SEPTEMBER CLIPS
Pearson Television International Archive business development executive Alessio di Capua has secured the worldwide distribution rights to September Films' library of clips. The deal, which covers around 50 hours of output,
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FORT BOYARD BOOSTS EXPAND'S REVENUES
Expand, the French company that owns the Fort Boyard entertainment format, has announced a 10 per cent increase in revenues for the first half of 1999, to FFr 604 million (£61
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ZDF SUBSIDIARY IN DOCUMENTARY JOINT-VENTURE
German public broadcaster ZDF's commercial arm, ZDF Enterprises, and Hamburg producer Katharina Trebitsch have set up the joint-venture doc.station to develop and produce documentaries for the international market. The Hamburg-based company,
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MERGED FIRMS TO TAKE MAJOR SHARE IN TV5
Arte and La Cinquieme are to become the largest shareholders in international French-language satellite channel TV5. The two channels - which will officially merge their operations when France's new broadcast law
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SIEGLER REWARDS THREE AT GRANADA ENTERTAINMENT USA
Granada Entertainment USA president Scott Siegler has promoted Matt Goldammer to director, business and legal affairs, Rebecca Hedrick to story editor for TV movies and mini-series and EJ Lee to manager,
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On the box - Stuart Murpny
UK Play channel editor Stuart Murphy on Weekender and BBC News 24's Zero 30.
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Just desserts
After many years working with Peter Bazalgette, Tim Hincks was named deputy of GMG Endemol. But is he just a Baz clone, asks John Plunkett.
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The Brits are coming
GB Productions' LA launch last week generated favourable column inches Stateside but mixed reviews in the UK. Jason Deans on the new BBC Worldwide and Granada joint-venture.
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OPINION - Sky makes pace in digital battle
Elisabeth Murdoch's evangelical address at last year's Edinburgh Television Festival may have been a triumph of style over content. Nonetheless it did contain one highly prescient message that at the time
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REPORT - Who's top of the class in UK TV?
Teacher's pet or class clown? As the industry packs its bags for next week's Edinburgh TV festival, and with an eye on the autumn schedules, Broadcast gives three contrasting views of terrestrial performance over the past year.
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INTERVIEW - Let me entertain you
Ex-Planet 24 man Duncan Gray spent his first year as Granada's entertainment chief gathering a strong team around him. Now he's ready to reap the rewards, with a raft of shows about to hit the network's new schedule.
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RATINGS ANALYSIS - No score draws?
Despite the assertions of media commentators that football is coming home, a closer look at the figures reveals remarkably little change in the number of people watching.
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OFF THE RECORD - Porn to the job
As if having to make Live TV's piss-poor soft porn wasn't bad enough, now long-suffering staffers have to watch it as well. Off The Record's moles at the cable channel reveal