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CARRIAGES DEALS BOOST EUROSPORTNEWS
Eurosport has closed two UK carriage deals for its new pan-European 24-hour sports news channel Eurosportnews. The channel launched this week on Sky Digital and will also launch on Telewest Active
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BYRD RESPONSIBILITY INCREASES AT BANFF
Banff Television Foundation in Canada has handed senior vice-president Jim Byrd the additional role of executive vice-president. Byrd, who is also Alliance Atlantis executive director, will provide operational leadership and management
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CAVALIER'S DADDY NETS C4 MESH CASH
Channel 4 has chosen Stephen Cavalier's short film Daddy as winner of this year's Mesh new-talent digital animation scheme. Set in 1950s America, Daddy is a tale of small-town adultery, corruption
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Teletext enters ITV sports talks
Teletext is holding talks with ITV about providing enhanced sports content for the network's sport output.ITV is looking at ways of adding value to its slate of sports output, such as
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NHS to boost health TV firm
Channel Health is to launch the government's third digital TV health proposition next month, writes Simon Ellery.
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Gullane poaches Disney boss
Gullane Entertainment has poached Walt Disney International senior vice-president of programming and creative development David Snyder to oversee the company's global production, distribution and development activity, writes Penny Hughes.
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Storm set for retail radio
Storm Digital Broadcasting (SDB), the radio outfit run by former Radio One DJ Bruno Brookes, is entering the in-house radio market with the launch of two new channels - Post Office Live and a radio station for newsagents, writes Georgina Lispcomb.
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4 X 4 TIMES TWO AS NEW SERIES CONFIRMED
Current affairs series 4 x 4 has been recommissioned for a second series by BBC 1 controller Lorraine Heggessey and head of current affairs Peter Horrocks. From the autumn, the 6
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SCIENCE GREATS TO APPEAR ON CHANNEL 4
Channel 4 schools commissioning editor John Richmond has ordered a new series for the Science in Focus strand from indie Eagle & Eagle. Big Questions examines how great scientists such as
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Living caters to chefs and stars
Flextech women's channel Living TV has commissioned three new series including a 20-part cookery show described as 'The Odd Couple meets Can't Cook, Won't Cook'.Ordered by Living commissioning editor Jane Millichip,
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Love conquers all on C4
Channel 4 commissioning editor, independent film and video, Adam Barker has ordered 3 x 60-minute films as part of the channel's third Hidden Love series, writes Penny Hughes.
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BBC signs Johnny Vegas
Comedian Johnny Vegas, the face of ITV Digital's ongoing ad campaign, has been signed up by the BBC to front a new gameshow as part of a raft of new shows for BBC Choice, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Watson fights back
BBC 2 commissioning executive Maxine Watson has commissioned a 50-minute special on former super middleweight boxer Michael Watson, writes Jon Rogers. Fighting Back: the Michael Watson Story charts Watson's battle for
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Mentorn to unveil MI5 documentary
Mentorn Barraclough Carey (MBC) has secured a raft of new orders from the BBC and Channel 4, including a documentary about controversial former MI5 head Dame Stella Rimmington, writes Leigh Holmwood.
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Youlton quits S&W
David Youlton has said he will step down as chairman of Snell & Wilcox in the same week that the company has confirmed its purchase of Newbury-based manufacturer Post Impressions.Youlton told
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XTV snaps up Red Pepper ID heads
Two founding members of recently defunct television branding company Red Pepper ID have joined Soho design house XTV, writes Will Strauss.
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BBC Tech fills top post
BBC Technology is stepping up its market presence with the appointment of Sun Microsystems global sales director for entertainment and media Stephen McKenna to the newly created post of sales director, writes Barbara Marshall.
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TV 'talks' to viewers via home appliances
Broadcasters and advertisers will soon be able to interact with viewers using inanimate objects in the home, writes Barbara Marshall.
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MEDIA 100 TAKES U-TURN
Media 100 is selling off its software product line-up including its Cleaner web streaming technologies to Discreet, the editing and effects subsidiary of Autodesk, for $16m (£11m). The sale marks a
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RUSHES PICKS UP SPIRIT
Soho commercials facility Rushes has added Philips' Spirit Datacine to its existing Cintel C-Reality and URSA Diamond telecine. The Spirit, which is the 20th to be installed in the UK, will