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    Five's licence fee cut to£4m

    2003-02-27T10:23:10Z

    Five was yesterday handed a financial bonanza which could be worth as much as£150 million over the life of the new...

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    Paxman rebuked over Kennedy interview

    2003-02-27T10:22:41Z

    Jeremy Paxman has been ticked off by the Broadcasting Standards Commission over his interview with Charles Kennedy...

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    Senator fails to see the joke of reality TV's Hillbillies

    2003-02-27T10:22:08Z

    Georgia senator Zell Miller has criticised a television company for seeking to mock hillbillies such as himself ...

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    Watchdog upholds criticism of Paxman interview

    2003-02-27T10:21:48Z

    Television interviewer Jeremy Paxman has been criticised by the television watchdog for being 'overly intrusive' by...

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    Paxman carpeted over Kennedy interview

    2003-02-27T10:21:03Z

    Television interviewer Jeremy Paxman is criticised by a broadcasting watchdog today over a ...

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    Judge calls radio phone-in to say CCTV is useless waste of money

    2003-02-27T10:20:38Z

    A judge phoned a radio phone-in programme from his chambers to say that film from CCTV cameras was often 'completel...

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    TV crew hunt for Belgrano

    2003-02-27T10:20:03Z

    A film crew plans to find and film the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano for a television documentary ...

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    Pop Idol's Mr Nasty to front dating show

    2003-02-27T09:39:27Z

    Simon Cowell, Pop Idol's Mr Nasty, is to make an unlikely Cupid in a dating show being developed for ITV1, writes Penny Hughes.

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    Granada Kids chief moves to top CITV role

    2003-02-27T09:38:09Z

    Granada Kids director of programmes Steven Andrew is to succeed Janie Grace as controller of children's and youth programming at ITV, writes John Plunkett.

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    Now Airey brings in Bravo man

    2003-02-27T09:36:30Z

    Sky has poached Flextech Television's rising star Matthew Paice, controller of Bravo and Trouble, to take up the new position of head of factual programmes and multiplexes at Sky One, writes Paul Revoir.

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    BBC launches major shake-up of factual

    2003-02-27T09:34:31Z

    The BBC is to implement a major restructure of its factual and learning commissioning structure that will see the creation of a new single controller role overseeing the whole of its£300m television slate, writes Leigh Holmwood.

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    Watchpoint in London

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    Interactive specialist WatchPoint Media has opened a London office. The company offers solutions for creating, broadcasting and collecting responses for interactive TV applications and its biggest product is Storyteller, an authoring system and graphical tool built on a proprietary visual programming language.

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    Machine Room hiring

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    Soho facility The Machine Room has added former 4MC/Ascent Media colourist Brian Metherell to its telecine team to help with an increase in TK projects. Metherell, who has 25 years' experience, has previously worked at VTR and TVP among other facilities. His credits include The ...

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    Ascent redundancies

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    Thirty five Ascent Media staff have been axed as a result of the merger of post houses Soho 601 and SVC into One Post. Those affected are being encouraged to apply for other jobs within the group. One Post will have 58 employees comprising 23 people from SVC, five from ...

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    Gong for Morris film

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    Chris Morris' short film My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117, which was posted at The Mill, has won a Bafta for best short film at this year's awards. The project was co-produced by Mark Herbert ( Phoenix Nights), and was adapted ...

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    Simple treatment for Sky show

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    The Sky News graphics team has created images for a new live evening talk show called 3Dto air on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 March.

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    BBC buys news software for war

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    The BBC has ordered 13 LNG (laptop news gathering) software systems from web and newsgathering partners TVZ and 4BN, for journalists to use in covering the impending war in Iraq.

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    Video Europe spends£1.5m on OB equipment

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    London kit hire and studio facility Video Europe has invested£1.5m in OB trucks and kit for its new events division.

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    P3 to axe office and shrink workforce

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    Soho post facility P3 has denied rumours it is going bust but has admitted that it will have to close one of its two offices and make staff cutbacks, writes Sam Espensen.

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    MTV forum to grill Blair over war in Iraq

    2003-02-27T08:30:00Z

    Prime Minster Tony Blair is to appear on MTV in a special 60-minute discussion programme in which he will set out his case for war with Iraq. MTV Forum with Tony Blair: Is War the Answer?, to be made by MTV Europe in London, will include questions from 40 young ...