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LONDON LIVE ANNOUNCES NEW PRESENTERS.
BBC London Live, the much criticised replacement for BBC Greater London Radio, has announced a new presenter line-up as it reaches its first birthday in order to give it a harder
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DIGITAL BBC 2 TO LAUNCH IN DEVOLVED REGIONS.
Digital versions of BBC 2 will be launched on 30 April in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The move will provide viewers in the nations with access to digital versions of
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BROADCASTERS FEATURE IN TOP BRANDS BOOK.
A number of broadcasting companies have made it into the 2001 edition of the Superbrands top 100 consumer brands book. In addition to regulars BBC and CNN, Channel 4 and Sky
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MXR PICKS UP NORTH-WEST DIGITAL LICENCE.
The MXR consortium has won its fourth regional digital licence in a row after the Radio Authority awarded it the franchise for north-west England. The group, which includes Chrysalis Radio, Capital
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PLANS FOR JOINT EXIT POLL DUMPED BY BBC/ITV.
ITV and the BBC have scrapped plans to use a joint exit poll system during the next general election. An ITV spokesman said it had decided not to opt for a
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Taste to order 1,000 hours of new shows.
Taste, the rebranded Carlton Food Network (CFN) service, plans to commission up to 1,000 hours of new programming this year and is bringing in US cash to fund programmes.New channel director
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UK picks up a third of Montreux nominations.
A total of 28 British programmes are chasing awards at this year's Golden Rose of Montreux ceremony, writes Steve Aston.
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Media buyer supports BBC's status.
David Pattison, chief executive of media buying firm New PHD and a former frontrunner for the still-vacant ITV chief executive role, has spoken out against the widely held view that the BBC should be overseen by a single regulator, writes Lucy Rouse.
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RATINGS - Channel 4 larges it with Celebrity Big Brother.
The week's major news event - the BBC 1 and Channel 4 collaboration Celebrity Big Brother - once again had a dramatic impact on C4's audience share, but wasn't such a top performer for BBC 1, writes Jon Rogers.
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ANOTHER TWO THOUSAND ACRES OF SKY.
Zenith Entertainment has been commissioned by BBC Scotland to make a second series of Two Thousand Acres of Sky (left) for BBC 1. The original cast will return for the series
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I2I PICKS UP FIVE DISCOVERY H&L PROJECTS.
Discovery Home & Leisure has handed five new commissions totalling more than 37 hours to independent production outfit i2i. Top of the list is 15 x 30-minute gardening series Veg Out
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BBC SCIENCE ORDERS LANDSCAPE SERIES.
BBC Science has commissioned a new series fronted by Earth Story presenter Aubrey Manning, called Talking Landscapes. BBC 2 controller Jane Root has commissioned science specialist TV6 to make the 6
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PERFORMANCE IN THREE-YEAR EUROARTS DEAL.
Arts channel Performance has struck a three-year output deal with German producer and distributor EuroArts for at least 100 hours of programming. Fifty hours have already been selected for 2001 and
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YTTTP TO MAKE HISTORY OF SEX SHOW FOR C4.
Channel 4 commissioning editor for entertainment Sue Murphy has ordered a 3 x 60-minute series from Yorkshire Tyne Tees Television Productions charting the history of sex on TV. The series, which
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GWYNHELEK TO PUT BISHOP BILL IN THE FRAME.
Penzance-based indie Gwynhelek is producing a 4 x 25-minute profile of a high-profile local bishop for Carlton Westcountry, with a 60-minute version being cut for the ITV controller of news, current
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Reality key part of Wellbeing Network.
Granada/Boots joint-venture The Wellbeing Network, which launched this week, is broadcasting a reality TV strand as a key component of its launch line-up.Wellbeing 100, produced by Yorkshire Television, follows the lives
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Anglia wins ITV double.
ITV controller of documentaries and features Dianne Nelmes has commissioned Anglia Television to produce two sports-based documentaries for the network, writes Steve Aston.
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BLOBHEADS ON NICK UK.
Nickelodeon UK has struck a deal with Toronto-based children's specialist Decode Entertainment for a new live action/ animated series, The Blobheads, writes Simon Ellery.
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Seventh Art to make Hidden History series.
Brighton-based indie Seventh Art has clocked up a number of new commissions including a Hidden History series to air on Discovery Channels International (DCI) and the BBC, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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ROLE FOR OMNIBUS MD.
OmniBus Systems group managing director Brian Paisley has been appointed an executive director of the board of Management Data AG, following the merger of the two companies last year (Broadcast, 12.5.00).