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On the box - Trouble and strife.
Yorkshire Tyne Tees Productions group controller of drama Keith Richardson was sold on Wife Swap but found Horizon bleak.
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News analysis - Lighting up Five.
Although Five has been catching up with its rivals, new chief executive Jane Lighting will have a tough job maintaining the momentum in the face of extra ITV spending and a more risk-taking approach at Channel 4.
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Interview - Ideally situated.
The trio in charge of Glasgow-based indie Ideal World - Zad Rogers, Hamish Barbour and Sue Oriel - are riding high after a year of impressive growth culminated in recognition at last week's Broadcast Awards.
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Ratings - Analysis - Can commercial radio pull ahead?
Commerical radio has steadily lost share to BBC stations over the past three years, although last week's Rajars showed that there are signs of a fightback as the sector recorded its best listener figures for years.
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TX - Spirited performance.
Getting pissed on the job was all part of a day's work for research psychologist Dr
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Murder on the Street deals killer blow to BBC1.
1 BBC 2 ITV C4 Five Others Total Average hours per viewer
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Leader - The early signs of ITV's revival.
In 10 days' time ITV will find itself with a new director of programmes, a job that last year was being passed around as the TV industry's most lethal poisoned chalice. But 2003 is already beginning to look like the year ITV finally turned around its fortunes.
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Free to air - The BBC's knotty issue.
John Humphrys once joked that the only reason Peter Salmon, then running BBC1, never wore a tie was because he might be tempted to hang himself. At the time, the channel's ratings were dismal, the coffers were empty and hit shows more elusive than a second UN resolution on Iraq.
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C4 JOB FOR RESOLUTION.
Facility Resolution is to cut five 10-minute shows following the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the Hajj,
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QUANTEL SHOWS AT NAB.
Manufacturer Quantel will be demonstrating the full range of its generationQ products at NAB 2003. Corporate
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Future of ITV - Making plans for Nigel.
ITV has already made a strong start to 2003, scoring some major ratings successes. With Nigel Pickard taking up the reins as programme director, John Plunkett asks senior industry figures if he can make the network sparkle again.
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Trade talk - Kidding around.
New CBBC controller Dorothy Prior was behind the BBC's digital kids channels, but does she have the vision to take over from Nigel Pickard?
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In my view - On how the Communications Bill's changes to indie status could let down our local heroes.
Remember the 1983 David Puttnam film, Local Hero? It told the story of a rapacious Texas
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - AVID COMMITS TO SHOW.
After not exhibiting at any major trade shows last year and instead holding a series of
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BARAKA ADDS TO OFFLINE.
Baraka has increased its offline business since incorporating Ruthless Editing and has bought two more Avid
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Technology & facilities - BBC goes to Belgian firm for high-def truck.
BBC Outside Broadcast has come to an unofficial preferred supplier agreement with Belgian outside broadcast (OB) company Alfacam for the supply of a high definition (HD) truck, writes Will Strauss.
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Technology & facilities - Rushes buys two Shakes.
Soho visual effects house Rushes has bought two new Shake licences after winning a graphics commission from the BBC, writes Sam Espensen.
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Technology & facilities - TV director warns of death risk to crews.
The head of one of the UK's leading directors agencies has warned indie producers that a fatal accident on a DV (digital video) shoot is a real possibility if they continue to fail to comply fully with health and safety regulations, writes Will Strauss.
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REVIVING CARY'S CELLULOID CHARM.
Metro Broadcast has invested a further #500,000 in video restoration equipment, buying a second Archangel restoration
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PROGRAMMING - DOM JOLY WINS QUICK BBC3 RECOMMISSION.
Comedian Dom Joly's new studio-based chat show for BBC3 has been commissioned for a second, longer