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    £60m Teachers TV gets government green light

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Teachers TV, the planned£60m TV service for teaching professionals, has been signed off by the government and will launch in the first quarter of next year.

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    Celador wins comedy order

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Celador Productions has been given a rare comedy commission, with a new half-hour show for Channel 4.

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    Commissioner's Q&A : Gary Shoefield

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    GSB director of programming has a maximum of£10,000 an hour to spend so has little chance of realising his dream of poaching The Sopranos, but he can afford another Sold in 60 Seconds

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    Saga radio launch

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Saga Radio has revealed it will launch its FM radio station for Glasgow on 7 September. The over-50s specialist won a competitive bid to launch Saga 105.2 last November, beating 12 competitors for the licence worth up to£20m in annual advertising revenue and commercial opportunities. Saga will have a potential ...

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    Horne back to Metro

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Tony Horne, breakfast DJ on Capital-owned 105.4 Century FM in the north-west, has been poached by Broadcast publisher Emap to rejoin Metro Radio in the north-east. Horne defected to Capital four years ago after months of conflict with management. But the DJ has been persuaded ...

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    London TV goes on air

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    London TV, the new London listings channel produced by Enteraction TV for Visit London, is launching next week with a programming budget of£2m for the first year. All the programmes will be produced in-house by Enteraction TV. Programming strands include what's on broadcasts every hour and ...

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    Kerrang! rolls out

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Emap, publisher of Broadcast , is to roll out rock station Kerrang! across seven digital radio multiplexes, growing its coverage to two-thirds of the UK. The station, which was only available to digital listeners in London and Aberdeen, will cover Yorkshire, the north-east, north-west, West ...

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    Miami opening for September

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    September Films has opened an office in Miami on the back of two factual series commissions from US broadcasters Bravo and Women's Entertainment (WE).

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    Spain cooks up own Takeaway

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Spain is to be the first country to show its own version of hit ITV show Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway.

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    Company's trio of Gold Nymphs

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Company Pictures, the indie behind Shameless, walked away with a hat trick of Gold Nymph awards at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

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    Zeal music rolls Cd:Uk to swiss market

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Blaze Television's ITV1 chart show CD:UK is to be remade for the Swiss market. The deal, handled by Zeal Music, will see the music show air on SF2, owned by public terrestrial network SFDRS, from September. Zeal will make the Swiss version, which will be retitled CD:Live. The format has ...

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    Italian prospect of straight dates

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Indie Prospect Pictures has sold the format of reality show ...

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    Rights for lion shows go to screentime

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Screentime Partners has picked up the rights to a brace of entertainment formats from Lion Television. The indie, r...

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    Camera cafe finds new markets to spy on

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Granada International has sold comedy format ...

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    Italy's mad turns to Britain's hardest

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Zeal TV has sold Sky One reality show ...

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    C4I sells documentaries to France 5

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 International has secured a raft of documentary sales to France 5. These include High Performance, a two-hour look at what happens when non-professional athletes take performance-enhancing drugs. The French broadcaster has also snapped up Paladin Pictures' 2 x 50-minute ...

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    Uncle to set up Endemol facility

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    The Farm Group subsidiary Uncle has won the contract to build a dedicated post facility for Big Brotherproducer Endemol in Bristol.

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    AHC and X-Ray merge to meet HD demand

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Ahc Post and X-Ray FX have merged to create a£1m-a-year high-definition boutique in Soho.

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    Riverside role for Editworks' boss Boyers

    2004-07-08T08:30:00Z

    Editworks managing director Jim Boyers has resigned and is taking control of Riverside TV Studios.