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Root creates drinks club for high-raters
BBC 2 controller Jane Root has created her own exclusive club, with membership strictly limited to producers whose programmes pull in at least 3 million viewers, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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MTV's Boland poached by E4
Channel 4 has poached MTV director of programmes Murray Boland to become E4's head of programmes, writes Penny Hughes.
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Producers scorn C4's indie plan
Disgruntled independent producers have expressed their concern about Channel 4's plans to buy stakes in some of its key suppliers, which they claim could drive business away from smaller indies.The warning
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PEPPER'S GHOST BAGS CITV DEAL
Pepper's Ghost Productions has formed a partnership with US rights developer Beckett Entertainment to develop animation properties, and it has also bagged its first CITV commission writes Barbara Marshall.
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NTL is understood to be launching the Virgin Media brand into the TV, broadband and telephony markets on St Valentine's Day, which it will dub 'V-day'.
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IBIZA HOLIDAY REPS GET OWN SERIES
BSkyB is set to turn its bawdy summer feature film Is Harry on The Boat? (pictured) into a long-running series to air on its flagship channel Sky One, writes Simon Ellery.
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NEWS SPECIAL: COVERING THE CONFLICT - Newsworld overhauled
Newsworld, the annual gathering of international news broadcasters, is overhauling its schedule following the terrorist attacks against the US and the onset of war in Afghanistan, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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NEWS SPECIAL: COVERING THE CONFLICT - Al Jazeera plans expansion to UK market
Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera, feted for its stream of picture exclusives of the attacks on Afghanistan, is exploring plans to launch a range of spin-off services in the UK, writes Simon Ellery.
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NEWS SPECIAL: COVERING THE CONFLICT - Afghanistan report boost to Panorama
Beleaguered BBC 1 factual strand Panorama this week scored its highest ratings since being shunted to its Sunday night graveyard slot after screening a special on Afghanistan on the night allied air attacks began, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Thornton hired to sell BBC Resources
BBC Workplace head of direction Andy Thornton has been appointed project director for the planned sale of BBC Resources, which deals with outside broadcasts, studios, post-production and costumes.
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ITV Digital slashes fees to reduce cancellations
ITV Digital is offering special cut-price packages including subscriptions for as little as£1 a month to up to 10,000 subscribers in a drastic bid to stop them cancelling, writes Simon Ellery.
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Granada plans idea rewards
Granada is drawing up plans to offer cash rewards to staff who develop successful programme formats in a bid to find its own global hit.The deal would mean staff who generated
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Festival role for Tiger Aspect boss
Organisers of the Edinburgh Festival have chosen an independent producer as advisory chair for the first time in seven years, appointing Tiger Aspect joint managing director Charles Brand to the role, writes Penny Hughes.
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BREAKFAST BIDS CUT
Channel 4 was expected to decide which three of the seven bidders for the Big Breakfast slot will be shortlisted to make pilots for a new show as Broadcast went to
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CUP TALKS BACK ON
Talks have re-opened between German media giant Kirch and the BBC and ITV over the controversial sale of rights to World Cup 2002. Since April the three had hit a stalemate
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3BM BOSS QUITS
3BM Television founder Jeremy Bennett has stepped down from his role as managing director. His successor has been named as Simon Berthon a partner and fellow founder of 3BM. Bennett, who
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NewsBSkyB slams iPlayer test
BSkyB has hit out at the new BBC Trust, claiming that its public value test (PVT) for the iPlayer is inadequate.
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SNOW IN CNN DEBATE
Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow is to chair CNN's weekly 30-minute International Correspondents show this Saturday examining the current crisis in Afghanistan. Other participants include CNN European political editor Robin
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SHAKE-UP AT RADIO 5
BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show editor Ceri Thomas has been appointed head of news at the station. Taking up the post at the end of October, he replaces Bill Rogers
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IBT SHIFTS FOCUS
Independent producer and lobby group International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) will stop making programmes to concentrate on working with broadcasters and other independents on social action TV projects following the departure of