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NewsSky Three to launch on Freeview
BSkyB is launching Sky Three, a new Freeview channel that will showcase content from Sky One.
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Kilgarriff calls time on Turner stint
Richard Kilgarriff is leaving his job as senior vice-president and general manager of Turner Europe at the end of the month. Kilgarriff has been with Turner in various roles for four years, most recently responsible for all the company's UK entertainment channels including Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Toonami and Turner Classic ...
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FilmFlex names Sky veteran Keyte as MD
Movie-on-demand service FilmFlex has appointed former BSkyB executive Andrew Keyte as its first managing director. Keyte, who was the general manager of Sky's 11 movie channels until 1999, has been brought on board to spearhead the region-by-region roll-out of the group's VoD service on NTL and Telewest. He begins on ...
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Pye leaves SPTI for non-exec roles
Chris Pye, vice-president of worldwide formats at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), has quit. He will leave at the end of the year and is unlikely to be replaced. He told Broadcast he had decided to take up a series of non-executive director roles in the independent sector and hopes ...
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Target: distribution profits£880,000
Following last week's Distributors Survey ( Broadcast, 16.9.05), Target has asked us to make clear that the profit and loss figures published in the table did not relate to its distribution business. Target's programme distribution business made a profit of£880,000 on a turnover of£6m last year. We ...
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Audio SOS: emergency treatment
The 'fix it in post' mentality may work for video, but sound is hard to salvage in the edit. From background noise to inaudible productions shot on cheap cameras, the number of casualties in audio post's emergency rooms is on the up. Andy Stout asked four audio specialists about aurally ...
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Radio indies must be heard
With all the focus on indies' TV quotas, the plight of the independent radio sector can be overlooked. Tim Blackmore calls for the Charter Review to open up the BBC's resources.
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Visions of ITV in the year 2016
If current trends continue, what does the future hold for ITV? Three correspondents, Stuart Prebble, Andrew Billen and Steve Hewlett, imagine what different aspects of the network might look like a decade from now.
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Dying to be on the telly
With a host of shows set to feature real deaths on TV, the question of what is appropriate is once again raised. In the absence of explicit rules, broadcasters have to rely on their own judgement.
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Forecasting senility at 50
While ITV is perfectly capable of turning itself around, a lack of creative tension is at the heart of its demise.
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Serious about Sky docs
Jacquie Lawrence has made an apparently seamless transition from radical C4 film-maker to driver of Sky One's move upmarket with authored documentaries.
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The blame game
Executives within ITV have been on a collision course for months and this week we are seeing the fall-out.
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NewsShaps: ITV Network still independent
Simon Shaps, ITV's new director of television, has insisted that the independent commissioning structure of ITV will remain intact following the company's restructure.
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NewsShaps continues on course for top job
Simon Shaps' appointment to director of television is the latest in a string of high-profile promotions for the diminutive Granada veteran and puts him within a whisker of his ultimate goal - running ITV plc.
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NewsBackroom boy moves into the spotlight
Ian McCulloch may not be a widely known figure but has been a key player behind some of the most significant changes at ITV over the past couple of years.
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RTS Cambridge Convention 15-17 September 2005
A full report from the annual RTS convention at Cambridge.
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Ofcom ad rules may be dropped
Ofcom is considering scrapping rules governing how many adverts a broadcaster can show in a programme amid claims they are outdated.
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Vorderman will host Sky One quiz
Sky One has commissioned an interactive primetime gameshow, based around Carol Vorderman.
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Firefly to make US Von Hagens show
Gunther Von Hagens, the controversial professor behind TheAutopsyand Anatomy for Beginners, is set to become a star in the US.
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Whitfield St calls in administrators
Whitfield Street Studios, one of London's largest recording facilities, has called in the administrators after negotiations with Pinewood Shepperton to buy the central London business collapsed.