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Leader - Wanted: regulatory restraint.
Any day now we are told that the new chief executive of Ofcom will be announced. Names still in the frame are said to include former NTL chief executive Stephen Carter, McKinsey consultant Nick Love-grove and Independent Television Commission (ITC) chief executive Patricia Hodgson.
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Free to Air - Dicing with digital death.
Unlike the men grappling to reinvent ITV, Greg Dyke has never suffered any real illusions regarding the intrinsic strengths of digital television.
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PROGRAMMING - BBC WORLD SERVICE UNVEILS FEBRUARY LINE-UP.
BBC World Service has unveiled a number of new series to air at the end of
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PROGRAMMING - BBC 1 DAYTIME TO FIND MORE HIDDEN TREASURE.
BBC head of daytime Alison Sharman and BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey have commissioned Leopard Films
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PROGRAMMING - FAME ACADEMY SPAWNS BBC SPORT IMITATOR.
The BBC is to launch a new sports series along the lines of Fame Academy which
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PROGRAMMING - TOP SOPRANO LEADS BBC 4 OPERA MASTERCLASS.
BBC 4 is to screen a live opera masterclass featuring leading lyric soprano Barbara Bonney giving
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PROGRAMMING - CARLTON'S WATERWORLD BACK FOR FOURTH DIP.
Carlton is to screen a fourth series of Waterworld, its factual series about the canals of
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Discreet to replace Colossus.
Kit manufacturer Discreet and Hungarian software developer Colourfront are secretly planning to ditch the popular Colossus grading product - as used on both Lord of the Rings movies - and replace it with a new Discreet-branded digital colour-grader, write
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Apple and Avid launch lower cost versions.
Software manufacturers Apple and Avid are offering watered down versions of their editing packages in an
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Liberty creates new post house.
After two years of speculation US company Liberty Livewire has finally announced plans for the last
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - Golden Square bids for ad work.
London post and effects facilities Golden Square Post and Double Negative have formed an alliance in
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Programming - BBC Wales to find best 'biz'.
A new business reality show in which viewers get the chance to vote for a start-up company they think has performed the best is being launched by BBC Wales, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Programming - Thames back inside for Channel 4 lifers update.
Thames TV is making a two-part follow-up to its Channel 4 Lifers series, which charted the lives of a group of prisoners serving life sentences, writes Penny Hughes.
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Programming - Talkback piles up C4 lifestyle shows.
Channel 4 head of features group Ben Frow has ordered a brace of expert-driven lifestyle series from Talkback Productions, writes Penny Hughes.
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PROGRAMMING - BIG BROTHER'S ADELE RETURNS WITH ATTITUDE.
Former Big Brother 3 housemate Adele Roberts has been asked to front a second series of
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PROGRAMMING - BRITISH EUROSPORT TAKES OVER ITALIAN FOOTIE.
Italian football will be broadcast exclusively in the UK on British Eurosport from next month, following
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Programming - Thomas takes on allies' guns.
Mark Thomas, the self-styled scourge of the British establishment, is making a one-off special for Channel
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PACT COUNCIL LIST.
In a short piece on producers' alliance Pact's council members for 2003 last week we listed
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Higher ITC fees anger channels.
The Independent Television Commission (ITC) faces a row with broadcasters after increasing the fees it charges
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Rival backs BBC's digital curriculum.
Educational publisher Pearson has broken ranks with other commercial companies and given its backing to the government's approval of the BBC's digital curriculum plans, writes Leigh Holmwood.