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    Breakfast leads

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    BBC Breakfast has overtaken GMTV in the morning news ratings battle,in a further sign of viewers turning away from ITV1, writes Dan Wootton.

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    Analysis - A Restoration folly?

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Eloise Tooke wonders if ITV's Cruises Undercover missed the big storyand if Restoration Village was wise to spend 1.9m on a tearoom atMassey's Folley.

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    Analysis - Can they take the heat?

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    With the share prices of big media companies such as ITV, Emap andGCap Media diving, shareholders are looking for heads to roll - but canblame really be laid at the door of the chief executives, asks Lucy Rouse.

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    Off the record - Who's Fearne Cotton?

    2006-08-04T00:00:00Z

    Even the hosts of ITV1's breakfast show are clearly not all thatinterested in Love Island. In a less than well-res...

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    Vaughan clings to top spot despite listener dip

    2006-08-03T13:30:00Z

    Johnny Vaughan's breakfast show on GCap's Capital FM is clinging onto the top spot among London's commercial stations despite recording its lowest audience yet.

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    Radio 4 suffers drop in listeners

    2006-08-03T13:00:00Z

    Radio 4 has become one of the BBC's biggest losers in the latest round of Rajars, with bosses blaming the fall in listeners on news programmes such as the flagship Today programme.

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    Seawatch nets 4.4m for BBC1

    2006-08-03T11:25:00Z

    The lure of deep sea corals, rock pools and Kate Humble bought BBC1 an audience of 4.4 million (21.8%) at 8pm last night.

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    Capital hits new low

    2006-08-03T09:40:00Z

    Rajars -GCap's troubled Capital Radio has continued to lose listeners with 79,000 switching off between April and June of this year.

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    Next week spells D-day for Charles Allen

    2006-08-03T09:04:00Z

    Further indications that ITV chief executive Charles Allen will offer to stand down at next week's board meeting have emerged with an announcement to be made on the broadcaster's results presentation on 9 August.

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    Baraka opens offline editing facility Chop

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Baraka Post Production has ploughed around£250,000 into a new dedicated offline editing division, Chop.

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    BBC radio reporters file by mobile

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    BBC radio reporters will be able to send broadcast-quality content from a mobile phone-style device, following trials in Lincolnshire.

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    Pinewood sees£5m of kit go up in 007 fire

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    More than£5m worth of rigging kit is thought to have been lost in the fire which engulfed the James Bond set at Pinewood Studios on Sunday. Although three crew members were understood to be in the process of dismantling the set - which included an underwater tank - when the ...

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    Fracture gets Asbo Fever

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Fracture has created the titles and bumpers for Folio Productions' Asbo Fever, a 3 x 60-minute series about people who receive Asbos. The brief was to make a light-hearted sequence featuring some of the people in the programmes. Fracture online editor Danny Davis created the ...

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    Frontier posts Big Bangs in HD

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Frontier Post has done the HD post for Granite Productions' Mark Williams' Big Bangs. The 4 x 60-minute factual entertainment series explores the history of explosions from Chinese firecrackers to the A-bomb. Shot on HDCam, the series includes shots of explosions captured to a disk ...

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    St Anne's makes Perfect Disaster

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    St Anne's Post has provided the post for Impossible Pictures' Perfect Disaster. The 6 x 60-minute docu-drama for Discovery US and Five looks at scenarios in a selection of cities, focusing on the different type of storm that hits each one. Editor Jon Ellis did ...

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    DGP hires TMR trio

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    DVD and post facility DGP has recruited a trio of staff from TMR. Claire Leach, formerly a producer at TMR DVD, has joined the production department. Leach will manage the audio and subtitling for DGP's ongoing work for HBO DVD.

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    Negatives service

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Film laboratory and digital post-production specialist Soho Images has launched a negative cutting service. The new department is being headed by Danny Coulson with three full-time staff.

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    Cohen moves

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Soho post house The Facility has taken on BBC Resources indie post producer Rich Cohen to head its new business department. During Cohen's five years at the BBC, he oversaw the migration of Red Bee Media post-production facilities to the Broadcast Centre. More recently as an indie post producer, Cohen ...

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    Smalls Festival

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    A festival showcasing short films for mobile phones and MP3 players is set to launch next month. Branding agency Devilfish is launching The Smalls in conjunction with the London Design Festival and online magazine

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    Editworks buys kit

    2006-08-03T08:30:00Z

    Post facility Editworks has invested£100,000 in an Avid Unity Isis storage system. The kit, which has an 8Tb storage capacity, will link up to Editworks' nine Adrenalines, two Symphonies, DS Nitris and Pyramix audio systems, forming the central storage for the facility.