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Leader - Dyke must join the PSB debate.
Two years ago when the white paper leading up to the Communications Bill was published, the debate on public service broadcasting (PSB) became pretty hot. However, that often heated discussion culminated in little more than PSB being described as the provision of content and services that the commercial sector, unfettered, ...
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Free to air - Extra terrestrial TV.
Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach teachers and those who can't teach teachers write snitty columns about how badly everyone else teaches or teaches teachers. Substitute 'teach' for 'make TV programmes' and this begins to describe my predicament
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Trade talk - In the hot seat.
Five factual entertainment boss Sue Murphy aims to build on her success with Michael Jackson's Face, the channel's biggest home-grown hit
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Trade talk - In my view.
On opportunities for change during Ofcom's initial public service broadcasting reviews
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PROGRAMMING - FIVE LINES UP ROD STEWART FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE.
Veteran rock star Rod Stewart is to take centre stage on Five on New Year's Eve
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PROGRAMMING - ZOE BALL COMES BACK WITH SKY MOVIE SHOW.
Former The Priory presenter Zoe Ball is to make her TV presenting comeback with a one-off
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PROGRAMMING - CARLTON ORDERS BOOST WEST COUNTRY INDIES.
Carlton Westcountry director of programmes Jane McCloskey has ordered a selection of 6 x 30-minute series
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PROGRAMMING - WARK CLEMENTS TO FILM SLEEPOVER CLUB FOR ITV.
ITV controller of children's and youth Janie Grace has ordered a 26 x 30-minute series based
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PROGRAMMING - MURDER IN SMALL TOWN X TO COME TO BBC 1.
The BBC's version of US reality game show Murder in Small Town X has finally gone
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PROGRAMMING - NICKELODEON GIVES KIDS CHANCE OF A LIFETIME.
Plymouth-based indie Twofourtv has been commissioned to produce an 8 x 30-minute series, Dare U?, for
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Technology & facilities - Dubbs builds four-desk DVD suite.
Duplication, conversion and multimedia facility Dubbs has built a new media suite for DVD production at its Poland Street home, writes John Oates
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Technology & facilities - Kanjee leaves TSI.
TSI Post-Production managing director Simon Kanjee has unexpectedly quit following disagreements over the 'direction in which the company is going', writes Will Strauss
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Technology & facilities - Grampian in move to #5m studios.
Grampian TV (GTV) is leaving its home of 40 years and moving to a new 22,000 sq ft, #5m television centre in Tullos, Aberdeen, writes John Oates
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - BLUE TURTLE POSTS FHM COVER GIRL CONTEST.
Blue Turtle Pictures has completed post-production on the finale to RDF Media and Sky One's search
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TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - MUSIC TALENT SEARCH.
Production music producer Extreme Music, in association with Broadcast, is launching a production music talent search
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News Special: Future of Commissioning Conference 28-29 Nov - Copy-cat docs must stop, says Channel 4.
Documentary commissioners called for a return to originality, warning producers to steer clear of pitching copy-cat ideas, writes Georgina Lipscomb
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NEWS SPECIAL: FUTURE OF COMMISSIONING CONFERENCE 28-29 NOV - GARDAM RAPS TV'S 'CULTURAL DISCONNECTION'.
Channel 4 director of television Tim Gardam launched an attack on British television for failing to
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NEWS SPECIAL: FUTURE OF COMMISSIONING CONFERENCE 28-29 NOV - CITV NEEDS TO REVIEW INDIE LICENSING DEALS.
Children's ITV will need to renegotiate its licensing deals with independents if it is to prosper
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NEWS SPECIAL: FUTURE OF COMMISSIONING CONFERENCE 28-29 NOV - HEGGESSEY LOOKS TO DAYTIME TO FEED PEAKTIME.
BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey said she was putting more cash into developing daytime shows which
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NEWS SPECIAL: FUTURE OF COMMISSIONING CONFERENCE 28-29 NOV - WILLIS: AVOID MULTI-PARTNER CO-PRODUCTIONS.
Programme-makers should limit international co-production partners to two or three to reduce conflicts in the production