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BBC 2 to tee off with golf from Augusta
BBC Sport has signed a three-year deal to air the Masters golf tournament from Augusta, Georgia. Around 12 hours of live, primetime coverage will air on BBC 2 between 6-9 April.
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England boss Keegan to present Talk Sport series
Kevin Keegan is to present a 5 x 60-minute series of shows on new national radio station Talk Sport. Keegan will take part in his first show on the station -
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NewsSky rebrands Artsworld
BSkyB is to re-brand its arts channels Artsworld and Artsworld HD as Sky Arts and Sky Arts HD respectively from 1 March.
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Hothouse to produce West Heath special for C4
London-based indie Hothouse Productions has been commissioned by outgoing Channel 4 commissioning editor night-time Stevan Keane to make a 60-minute special of spoof soap opera West Heath Yard, featuring guest stars
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Lion opens drama arm with McNeill
Factual indie Lion Television is pumping£500,000 into the launch of a new drama division and has poached veteran drama producer Gillian McNeill and two EastEnders scriptwriters to head the unit.Managing
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Hammer mulls indie deals
The new owners of Hammer Films want to strike alliances with independent TV producers to produce horror series for television and are considering long-term plans to launch a Hammer digital TV channel, writes Tim Dams.
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C4/RTE to film Beckett's entire dramatic oeuvre
Channel 4 and RTE are co-funding a star-studded drama project that sees Blue Angel Films producing a raft of TV films based on all 19 of Samuel Beckett plays, writes Ashley Davies.
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ITN wins pitch for C5's new current affairs slot
ITN has beaten Sky News in the battle to produce Channel 5's new daytime weekly current affairs show, writes Tara Conlan.
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Overnight Ratings - Home Front edges ahead of C4's ER return
The return of ER to Channel 4 last Wednesday night (2 February) pulled in a healthy audience, but was still overshadowed by BBC 2's Home Front, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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Pringle quits Chrysalis for net venture
Chrysalis Radio group programme director Keith Pringle has unexpectedly quit the company to found a start-up internet venture, writes John Plunkett. [PP] 3 [PL] UK Pringle, who had overall programming responsibility
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Wise Buddah buys Tong's West End
Radio indie Wise Buddah is buying rival music producer West End Radio in a move that creates the largest independent producer of music radio programming in the UK, writes John Plunkett.
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Lofts joins ITV2 as broadcast director
ITV2 director of programmes Brian Barwick has drafted in children's programming chief Joan Lofts as the channel's new director of broadcasting.Lofts, who has been acting as a consultant for ITV on
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Brit Comedy Awards may desert ITV
The broadcast rights to the British Comedy Awards have come up for grabs, which could see the event leaving ITV for the first time in 10 years, writes Tara Conlan.
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NewsUS co-pro deal for BBC's Timewatch
New US cable channel Smithsonian Networks has struck a co-production deal with the BBC for its flagship history series Timewatch.
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BSkyB drops analogue film channels in drive to digital
FilmFour and Sky Box Office will be dropped from BSkyB's analogue satellite service in April as the broadcaster continues its drive to convert more customers to digital, writes John Plunkett.
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Sky's West joins ISD
Former Sky Entertainment managing director Ian West has joined Carphone Warehouse Group's European Internet Services Division (ISD) as non-executive chairman. He left Sky last autumn after chief executive Tony Ball joined
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Disney bids for Digital One
Rival bids from Disney and Saga Radio are leading the race to fill the last berth on the national commercial digital radio platform, Digital One. The licence was previously earmarked for
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10 Alps adds net arm
Bob Geldof and Alex Connock's indie 10 Alps has set up a new company called 11 Alps to provide internet content. The outfit's first deal is the creation of a joint-venture
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NewsMercury Media takes PBS to new heights
Factual distributor Mercury Media International has struck a deal with US public broadcaster PBS to distribute its content to airlines around the world.
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Reuters to cut posts
The Reuters Group has announced that there will be a number of job losses as a result of new restructuring aimed at saving£150 million a year until 2002. A Reuters