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DVD: The future of DVD
DVD Video may be the format currently storming the battlements of the consumer market but there are actually four types of DVD - DVD Recordable (DVD-R), which records once
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DVD: Expert Advice
Jonathon Blyth, BBC'We've been releasing DVDs for just over a year,' says Jonathon Blyth, home video and DVD manager at the BBC. 'Because authoring is expensive, we can
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Dale in driver's seat for Touch the Truck
Channel 5 secures services of housewife's favourite for new and experimental five-day reality game show
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Dale in driver's seat for Touching the Truck
Channel 5 secures services of housewife's favourite for new and experimental five-day reality game show
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Granada broadband lauches Wap first
Award-wining mobile producer Distractions produces wirless Popstars spin-off quiz
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Salmon leaps from BBC
Birt appointed chief executive of BBC Resources - and former BBC director of personnel - in surprise departure less than two years into the job
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C4 drives away with World Rally Championship
Horseferry Road nabs rights from BBC in three year deal
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US network extends two show BBC deal
BBCWorldwide/Discovery Communications joint venture - BBC Sales Company - licenses Home Front and Bargain Hunt to Tennessee-based HGTV
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Sambrook gets BBC news director role
Deputy secures top news position after incumbent quits to become chief executive of Royal Opera House
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C5 admits reach will not expand.
Millions of viewers may have to wait up to 10 years to receive Channel 5 after the station admitted this week that no further efforts would be made to expand its
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Bender resigns C4 but moots return to 4Later.
Channel 4 commissioning editor, night-time Darren Bender has resigned but is in talks with the channel about a new role focusing on the drama side of late night zone 4Later, writes Ashley Davies.
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STAR WARS TO HIT TV SCREENS.
BSkyB has secured pay-TV rights to air the remastered Star Wars trilogy, including the latest instalment, Phantom Menace, writes Lucy Rouse. The films begin a four-week run on Saturday nights from
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Dyke and Jones claim 11th hour influence over the white paper.
BBC director general Greg Dyke and Carlton channels chief executive Clive Jones are understood to be boasting about how they acted together to influence the communications white paper at the 11th
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Pioneer to double staff.
Science and technology specialist Pioneer Productions is to double its workforce to 100 as part of a drive into more general factual programming, writes Simon Ellery.
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Atlantis to keep Cafe operating.
Factual independent Cafe Productions has been saved from closure by Canadian outfit Alliance Atlantis in a deal that has taken five months to conclude. The London-based indie which ran into financial problems
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New digital spectrum soon to be up for grabs.
The government is poised to release new digital spectrum equivalent to more than half the capacity of On Digital, the Independent Television Commission has revealed, writes Lucy Rouse.
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Religion head receives commissioning budget.
The incoming BBC head of religion and ethics will be given commissioning powers and a budget to bolster the corporation's religious programming, writes Georgina Lipscomb.
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OLIVER TO SET UP OWN INDIE.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver wants to set up his own production company, after deciding that the third series of Naked Chef will be his last with Optomen Television, the indie with
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ITC issues interactive guide to protect viewers.
The Independent Television Commission has this week issued new guidelines on interactive services to ensure that commercial opportunities brought about by new technology do not confuse viewers, write Simon Ellery and