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    BOOST FOR WEBCASTER.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Webstreaming specialist Virtue Broadcasting is to receive a EUR12m (£7.6m) investment from telco Interoute to provide exclusive streaming and hosting services across its European fibre optic network. The partnership will enable

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    SCRIPT COMPETITION.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Granada has released details of its competition to find writing talent in the north-west. Applicants should submit a one-page idea on the theme of city life and a five-page script to

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    EBU TO CHOOSE HEAD.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasters are to meet in Geneva on Friday (16 March) to appoint the next secretary general of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBU operates the Eurovision network and serves 69

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    NEW CHAIR FOR BEAT 106.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Former chairman of Border Television James Graham has been appointed chairman of central Scotland radio station Beat 106. The appointment is the latest in a number of changes at the station,

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    50 PER CENT RISE FOR HIT.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Hit Entertainment, the production company behind Bob the Builder and Barney the Dinosaur, this week reported a 50 per cent rise in pre-tax profits in its first interim results since it

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    FOX KIDS: CORRECTION.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    An item on Fox Kids Europe's results (Broadcast, 2.3.01) was incorrectly headed 'Fox Kids profits fall'. The outfit saw EBITDA fall from $26.2m (£18m) to $16.3m (£11m) in the six months

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    STEVENSON TAKES OVER HIT'S CREATIVE TEAM.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Hit Entertainment has appointed Jocelyn Stevenson to head its creative team. She will take the newly-created role of executive vice-president, creative and development, reporting directly to Hit chief executive Peter Orton.

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    DYKE PROMISES ENGLISH REGIONAL SHOWS.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC director general Greg Dyke re-affirmed his commitment to develop programming for the English regions in a speech made to the Birmingham Newspaper Press Fund last Friday (9 March). He said

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    SKILLSET ADDS THREE BOARD MEMBERS.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Training organisation Skillset has appointed three new board members - managing director of Discovery Networks Europe Joyce Taylor, Channel 4 head of human resources Peter Meier and Pact chief executive John

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    LONDON LIVE ANNOUNCES NEW PRESENTERS.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    BBC London Live, the much criticised replacement for BBC Greater London Radio, has announced a new presenter line-up as it reaches its first birthday in order to give it a harder

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    DIGITAL BBC 2 TO LAUNCH IN DEVOLVED REGIONS.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Digital versions of BBC 2 will be launched on 30 April in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The move will provide viewers in the nations with access to digital versions of

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    BROADCASTERS FEATURE IN TOP BRANDS BOOK.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    A number of broadcasting companies have made it into the 2001 edition of the Superbrands top 100 consumer brands book. In addition to regulars BBC and CNN, Channel 4 and Sky

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    MXR PICKS UP NORTH-WEST DIGITAL LICENCE.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The MXR consortium has won its fourth regional digital licence in a row after the Radio Authority awarded it the franchise for north-west England. The group, which includes Chrysalis Radio, Capital

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    PLANS FOR JOINT EXIT POLL DUMPED BY BBC/ITV.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    ITV and the BBC have scrapped plans to use a joint exit poll system during the next general election. An ITV spokesman said it had decided not to opt for a

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    Taste to order 1,000 hours of new shows.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Taste, the rebranded Carlton Food Network (CFN) service, plans to commission up to 1,000 hours of new programming this year and is bringing in US cash to fund programmes.New channel director

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    UK picks up a third of Montreux nominations.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    A total of 28 British programmes are chasing awards at this year's Golden Rose of Montreux ceremony, writes Steve Aston.

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    Media buyer supports BBC's status.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    David Pattison, chief executive of media buying firm New PHD and a former frontrunner for the still-vacant ITV chief executive role, has spoken out against the widely held view that the BBC should be overseen by a single regulator, writes Lucy Rouse.

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    RATINGS - Channel 4 larges it with Celebrity Big Brother.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    The week's major news event - the BBC 1 and Channel 4 collaboration Celebrity Big Brother - once again had a dramatic impact on C4's audience share, but wasn't such a top performer for BBC 1, writes Jon Rogers.

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    ANOTHER TWO THOUSAND ACRES OF SKY.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Zenith Entertainment has been commissioned by BBC Scotland to make a second series of Two Thousand Acres of Sky (left) for BBC 1. The original cast will return for the series

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    I2I PICKS UP FIVE DISCOVERY H&L PROJECTS.

    2001-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Discovery Home & Leisure has handed five new commissions totalling more than 37 hours to independent production outfit i2i. Top of the list is 15 x 30-minute gardening series Veg Out