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    Yoomedia sells Avago

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Interactive entertainment group Yoomedia has sold its Avago interactive gambling channel brand and associated intellectual property to gaming operator Gala Group. The deal is worth between£5.1m and£8.05m to Yoomedia, depending on the performance of the channel. Gala will rebrand the Avago channel, and relaunch it by the end of the ...

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    New chief takes reins at Quantel

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Manufacturer Quantel's chief executive and chairman, Richard Taylor, has resigned from the company after a disagreement over the future strategic direction of the business.

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    Yasmin producer to make refugee film

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    The producer of Channel 4's acclaimed drama Yasminis making a feature-length film about the UK's refugee communities for More4.

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    Flashback heads into costume drama with Regency yarn

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Flashback Television is making its first costume drama with a BBC4 film about Regency dandy Beau Brummell.

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    Tag expands empire with Vertis buy

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Tag, the parent company of post-production house Smoke and Mirrors, has continued its recent shopping spree by acquiring media service provider Vertis for an undisclosed sum.

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    It's My Life to return for third series

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Manchester-based indie Moore Television is in production with a third series of its Terry Christian-fronted ITV1 discussion show It's My Life. The 8 x 60-minute series, in which Christian again tackles moral and ethical dilemmas faced by young people, is being lined up for ...

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    ITV orders series on pushy parents

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    ITV controller of factual Bridget Boseley has commissioned Betty TV to make a series about competitive parenting. The 3 x 60-minute Desperate Parentswill look at parents who obsess about 'hot-housing' and 'fast-tracking' their children. It goes into production this month and will air in the ...

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    Promotion at Metro

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Post house Metro has promoted its business development director for broadcast, Paul Beale, to group business development director. Beale has been at Metro for 11 years and his role has now been extended to cover Metro's broadcast, events and AV divisions.

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    Forbidden award

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Video streaming specialist Forbidden Technologies has won the RTA award for technology in post-production for its web-based editing facility, FORscene. GMTV, Granada and Nats post-production have used the service - which is used for logging, editing and reviewing content - and Forbidden has forged a reseller partnership with Nats.

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    Marmalade spreads

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Audio post facility Marmalade has invested£250,000 installing a fourth studio and a new reception and client area. The studio will be used for most aspects of audio post-production using a Fairlight Fame to conduct online mix and sound design for clients such as the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and National ...

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    Producer to Blue

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Post-production house Blue has nabbed agency producer Angela Parkinson from advertising agency Publicis to join as a producer. Parkinson will add to the seven-strong production team, focusing on dramas, documentaries and on-air promos.

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    Harris in radio tie-up

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Digital technology specialist Unique Interactive has teamed up with communications company Harris Corporation to integrate its 'Display Text' solution, ManDLS, into Harris HD radio broadcast products. Unique's ManDLS will provide radio stations with an online tool to create, manage and schedule text for display on HD radio and links with ...

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    Graphixasset does Garden vfx

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Graphixasset has completed a match move visual effects shot for the title sequence of Christine's Garden, a 6 x 30-minute series by BBC Birmingham following horticulturalist Christine Walkden's passion for horticulture at home and work. The shot sees her walking across the lawn while grass ...

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    ITV sets sights on Lottery draw

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    ITV is staging a serious bid to wrestle the TV rights to the National Lottery draw away from the BBC.

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    R1's Parfitt in frame for CBBC post

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    BBC Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt has emerged as a contender for the job of controller of Children's BBC.

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    Morrison gets nations role

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has moved to bolster programme-making in the nations and allay fears about in-house production by appointing Anne Morrison to help it meet its in-house production quotas.

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    Still Game to return

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Glaswegian indie The Comedy Unit has won a fifth series commission for BBC2 comedy Still Game, its first returning network commission since Rab C Nesbitt. The third series gained almost half the audience share on BBC Scotland when it was ...

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    Thompson hires Mentorn duo

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Steadfast Television, the indie set up by former Mentorn chief Charles Thompson, has poached two Mentorn development executives.

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    Pub landlord opens doors at Virgin Radio

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    Comedian Al Murray is to step up to the mike to host Virgin Radio's Sunday 4pm to 7pm slot from Sunday (8 January) in his pub landlord guise. Filling in for regular presenter Tim Lovejoy for a month, Murray will continue with Lovejoy's celebrity interviews, but will add a pub ...

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    Freudenstein leaves BSkyB for native Oz

    2006-01-05T08:30:00Z

    BSkyB chief operating officer Richard Freudenstein is to leave the company. Freudenstein, who has been with Sky since 1999 and last year spearheaded the launch of the broadcaster's 19 mobile channels, has decided to return to his native Australia but has not announced his next move. A Sky spokesman said ...