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Chrysalis hires BBC's Reich for comedy push
Chrysalis Television has poached producer Gary Reich from the BBC to spearhead a new drive into comedy production, writes John Plunkett.
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Carlton World orders some Toast
Digital terrestrial channel Carlton World has lined up two 26 x 30-minute series from Carlton Productions and Carlton subsidiary Action Time, writes Alice Macandrew.
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MCKEOWN PUMPS£100,000 INTO ISLE OF WIGHT CHANNEL
TV producer and founder of Select TV Allan McKeown has invested more than£100,000 in the UK's first terrestrial restricted service licence (RSL) channel, TV12. The investment in the local community
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DCMS' JONES TAKES POLICY POST AT PACT
Producers' alliance Pact has appointed Kris Jones, a broadcasting policy adviser at the Department of Culture, Media & Sport, as its new head of public affairs. Jones has worked at the
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NewsThe Foundry launches Nuke 5
IBC: Soho based The Foundry has launched a new version of its compositing application Nuke. Read this and other IBC stories by clicking on the link. [ALL]
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CCI DENIES BID FOR SCOTTISH RADIO HOLDINGS
Clear Channel International (CCI) has denied it has approached Scottish Radio Holdings (SRH) with a proposal to buy a stake in the company. Weekend newspaper reports suggested CCI was interested in
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LWT PROMOTES MACKIE TO DEPUTY CONTROLLER OF DRAMA
Laura Mackie has been promoted from head to deputy controller of drama at LWT, as part of a reshuffle by controller Jo Wright. Since joining LWT from BBC drama along with
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RADIO AUTHORITY WINS HIGH COURT BATTLE OVER LICENCE
The High Court has upheld a decision by the Radio Authority not to award a small-scale alternative licence to a man in east Kent. Francis Wildman won Court of Appeal approval
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TELEWEST ON THE OFFENSIVE OVER SET-TOP BOX OFFERS
Telewest conducted a marketing offensive last week to discourage consumers from taking up free digital set-top box offers from Sky Digital and On Digital. The campaign, which saw Telewest representatives handing
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DAISLEY TO HEAD SALES AT SOMETHIN' ELSE
Bruce Daisley has been appointed head of sales for independent radio production company Somethin' Else. Daisley, formerly a sales executive for Emap On Air, will be responsible for developing new revenue
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SINGER, TAYLOR AND DAVEY HONOURED BY RTS
Flextech executive chairman Adam Singer, Discovery Channels Europe managing director Joyce Taylor and former Independent Television Commission director of cable and satellite Jon Davey were awarded silver medals by the Royal
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NTL RETHINKS UNITED BID
NTL has said that it would not rule out bidding again for Newcastle United if the Restrictive Practices Court rules in favour of unbundling football TV rights next month. The cable
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CN GROUP MOVES INTO RADIO
Carlisle-based newspaper publisher CN Group has acquired controlling interests in two radio stations - The Bay, covering Morecambe Bay, and City Beat in Belfast - from the Oyston Family Trust. CN
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MARKETEER JOINS FLEXTECH
Pay-TV outfit Flextech has appointed the founder of Western International Media Mike Smallwood to the newly created role of senior vice-president of marketing. Smallwood, who joins after a period as a
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NOBLE SUCCESSOR AT HEART
Heart 106.2 has appointed former Drivetime announcer Erika North to replace Kara Noble on the Jono and Morning Crew breakfast show. Noble was sacked after a picture she took of a
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NewsSir Trevor escapes racism censure
Sir Trevor McDonald has escaped censure from Ofcom for calling comedian Bernard Manning a 'fat, white b*stard'. [ALL]
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TV mags fix deadlines
TV listings editors have forced the terrestrial channels to limit schedule changes to an earlier deadline of 16.00 on Wednesdays with any subsequent changes to remain unpublished.The agreement follows a 'listings
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ITV tussles with F1 boss over TV rights
ITV faces the prospect of shelling out more cash to maintain its coverage of Formula One (F1) motor racing after a contractual dispute with F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone forced it to drastically cut back its coverage of the French Grand Prix last weekend, wr
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Former Cosby Show executive producer Caryn Mandabach is to give the Worldview Address on the global future of the TV industry at this year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF
Former Cosby Show executive producer Caryn Mandabach is to give the Worldview Address on the global future of the TV industry at this year's Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (GEITF) on
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Ainsworth to quiz Bland on future
Peter Ainsworth, the Conservative shadow media secretary, is to have urgent talks with BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland about the thrust of the corporation's future policy and, in particular, the continuation