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    Soaps - The North-South divide

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Coronation Street vs EastEnders has been a key ratings tussle in the UK's TV schedules for the past 15 years. As EastEnders celebrates its fifteenth birthday and Corrie turns 40, Meg Carter asks what it is that makes these stories run and run.

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    Interactive Channels - Get ahead, get a niche

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    New channels are launching all the time. But these days, in addition to good quality content and marketing, interactivity is key to attracting consumers. And if you can also forge yourself a niche, you've got it made.

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    Interview - The Jazzman

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    If it was listening to Jazz FM that once kept him sane, Richard Wheatly has repaid the station as its chief executive by bringing it back from the brink of financial disaster.

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    TX

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    NATURE BOYProducer: BBC DramaBroadcaster: BBC 1Start: 21.30, 14 FebruaryLength: 4 x 60-minutesExecutive producers: Hilary Salmon, Michael WearingProducer: Catherine WearingDirector: Joe WrightWriter: Bryan ElsleyBy Martin JacksonThe expression 'having too much

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    Off The Record - Dirty dancing

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    The enoblement of Simon Shaps as Granada Media Productions' managing director already seems to have blown away the cobwebs at the company's normally sedate senior management meetings. In place of the

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    Off The Record - Taking the gloves off

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Out-going BBC big kahuna Will Wyatt was doubtless looking forward to his swansong speech to the Royal Television Society last week. Unfortunately for him, he had to follow a 'tribute' speech

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    Off The Record - Messing about on a river

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    But forget Will Wyatt (and you will). The social event of the year was due to take place on a boat on the river Thames this Thursday (3 February), intent on

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    Off The Record - Bodily discharge

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Imagine the excitement at Off The Record when a free copy of BBC grand fromage David Docherty's eagerly awaited first novel, The Spirit Death, landed with a thump on its desk.

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    Off The Record - Ideas above its station

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Size does matter if Channel 4 International's presence at last week's Natpe programming bash in New Orleans was anything to go by. The chaps from Horseferry Road outdid themselves with a

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    Off The Record - Award-winning

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    This week's picture features OTR's favourite newsreader Michael Buerk (left), who was snapped moments after putting pen to paper on his new one-year deal to stay at the BBC. If truth

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    Off The Record - And Finally

    2000-02-04T00:00:00Z

    Catherine Houston, MD of 124 Facilities, would love to guzzle tea while watching soft furnishings on TV.

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    BBC increases lead over commercial radio

    2000-02-03T23:55:00Z

    Zoe Ball breakfast show tops seven million as latest Rajar figures show boost for corporation

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    GWR chief urges MPs to relax radio ownership rules

    2000-02-03T19:35:00Z

    Bernard argues that current limits put 'future of commercial radio at risk'

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    Mansfield and Nelmes rise in ITV reshuffle

    2000-02-03T19:30:00Z

    Granada TV hires Grant Mansfield as programmes chief while ITV daytime chief Dianne Nelmes named as successor

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    Rapture to air seven days a week

    2000-02-03T15:28:00Z

    Youth channel rolls out expanded schedule from Monday

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    Bazal to make Big Brother for Channel 4

    2000-02-03T15:08:00Z

    Controversial European format gets UK airing

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    Planet 24 chat show recommissioned by Channel 4

    2000-02-03T12:06:00Z

    Planet 24 is about to go into production on a second 8 x 30-minute series of late-night chat show The Richard Blackwood Show for Channel 4's spring schedule, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Planet 24 chat show recommissioned by C4

    2000-02-03T10:54:00Z

    Planet 24 is about to go into production on a second 8 x 30-minute series of late-night chat show The Richard Blackwood Show for Channel 4's spring schedule, writes Ashley Davies.

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    Salmon lines up BBC 1 primetime satire

    2000-02-03T10:37:00Z

    Goodness Gracious Me producer to make 30-minute pilot of satirical news show to air later this year

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    Telewest and Open strike content deals

    2000-02-03T09:50:00Z

    Telewest adds 14 to Active Digital Platform