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    Wife Swap USA in peak

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has handed RDF Media a primetime slot for Wife Swap USA when it launches in the UK early next year. Wife Swap USA , made out of RDF's New York office for ABC, is the fourth American RDF ...

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    Andrea Wonfor: risk taker in the regions

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    After the untimely death of Andrea Wonfor, her good friend John Willis remembers her life

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    CNBC's media talk

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    CNBC Europe is to launch a studio-based panel discussion show on the media industry. The 6 x 30-minute Media Talk will air from 24 September at 6pm on Friday evenings and will be repeated at 7pm on Sundays.

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    ITV's profits rise

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    ITV's pre-tax profits for the six months to 30 June were up 42% to£132m on turnover of£989m, chief executive Charles Allen announced last week. Allen also revealed that the over-35s channel ITV3 would launch on Freeview on 1 November and later on Sky.

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    Shake-up at BSkyB music

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BSkyB has handed the running of its three music channels to a rival company in a move that leaves 13 staff facing redundancy.

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    Profits rise for TV Corp

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    The Television Corporation, producer of Robot Wars and the Hamburg Cell , has reported a return to profits for the first six months of the year after admitting to three 'difficult' years of losses.

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    Sky fits out news ops with Sony kit

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Sky News is kitting out five more of its major news bureaux with Sony tapeless camera technology, it was announced at IBC this week.

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    NTL and O2 in multichannel phone trial

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    NTL's broadcast division and O2 have teamed up to produce the UK's first multichannel television to mobile phones trial.

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    BBC Broadcast lands Five subtitling and signing deal

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC Broadcast has won a four-and-a-half year contract with Five to provide audio description and sign language services as it looks to capitalise on an Ofcom ruling in July.

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    Lip Sync maps out Kids Awards

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Lip Sync post has provided the branding and animated graphics for Walt Disney Productions Disney Channel Kids Awards 2004. An animated pirate's treasure map was created, with the camera zooming in on a different area for each award. The design, map, visual effects and final compositing was done by senior ...

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    Todd-AO posts Winstone drama

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Todd-AO Creative Services has completed post-production on She's Gone for ITV1. The 120-minute drama, which was shot on 16mm, follows Ray Winstone's character as he searches for his missing daughter in Istanbul. Film editor John Stottart oversaw the editing process. The online and confirm were ...

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    Jump in Millionaire makeover

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Jump has completed a redesign of the titles and graphics for Celador's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Franchise holders in more than 90 countries will pick up the new design. Jump's senior designers, Russell Hilliard and Russell Mann, designed the sequence, while the 3D ...

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    Thomson man goes

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Manufacturer Thomson Grass Valley's UK managing director and sales director, David Philips, has left the company suddenly and is now on gardening leave. Jan Looijmans, sales director for the Benelux region, has stepped in to assume the role of sales director, northern Europe and Benelux. Thomson Grass Valley global communications ...

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    LPC loses its MD

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Managing director Maurizio Cimelli has left London Playout Centre (LPC) after 11 years at the facility - three of which as managing director. Bob Gentry, the director of network services, will fill the slot for the immediate future. Cimelli started at LPC as finance controller when it was owned by ...

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    Online appointment

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Online music research tool Play has hired Simon James as its new director of operations and development. James leaves BMGZomba Production Music where he was director of marketing. Play launched in April 2002 and has 20,000 subscribers worldwide.

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    UP Satellite in UK

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Ascent Media Group chief executive Ken Williams has predicted that there will be an upsurge in commercials finished in digital intermediate and even more growth in feature films. As a result, Ascent plans to put forward UP Satellite in the UK, a service currently available at Ascent companies in the ...

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    EBU HD amendment

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    The director of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Phil Laven, has said that EBU's apparent statement of support at IBC for the 720 resolution of HD were not the last words on the subject. The debate was between 720 and 1080 HD resolution.

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    Sky One orders Easycruise show

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of low-cost airline Easyjet, has landed a second TV series about his Easy empire with a Sky One show charting the launch of his latest venture, Easycruise.

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    Hunniford returns with celeb homes series

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    Gloria Hunniford will tackle her first TV project since the death of daughter Caron Keating with an OK! magazine-style series for the Biography Channel.

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    League of Gentlemen writer is signed for new BBC3 comedy

    2004-09-16T08:30:00Z

    BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy has commissioned a long-running comedy drama about a set of weird characters in Blackpool from the writer of The League of Gentlemen.