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    TRADE TALK - Good news?

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Will new deputy chief executive Richard Sambrook retain his popularity as he takes charge of reorganising BBC News? Tara Conlan reports.

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    TRADE TALK

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    On why US television, with an eye on 2001, is saving its Christmas surprises until after the festivities.

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    NEWS ANALYSIS - Tough questions for ITV

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Thanks to the likes of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? ITV has enjoyed a highly successful year. But can David Liddiment, the man in the hot seat, keep it up? Jason Deans asks the questions.

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    OPINION - Content providers add flesh to cable

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Cable has long been the City's biggest tip for the future of TV (which, just in case it hasn't been said too many times this year, is digital). But just how

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    Wheel of fortune

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Who were 1999's fairground attractions, and who were the year's human cannonballs?

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    TX - FAERIES

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Producer: Hit EntertainmentBroadcaster: CITVStart: 16.45, 26 DecemberLength: 1 x 75-minutesCommissioned by: Nigel PickardExecutive producers: Kate Fawkes, Dan Maddicott, Robert Leighton, Stephen ShelanskiWriter: Jocelyn StevensonIf the Christmas tree fairy could grant

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    OFF THE RECORD - Birt down on the canvas

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Off The Record was shocked to see that the BBC is spending the thick end of£15,000 on a portrait of everyone's favourite out-going director general, Sir John Birt. We are

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    OFF THE RECORD - Airey bashing

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Let's hope Dawn Airey hasn't already sent her Christmas cards out this year, because she just might want to take Will Wyatt off her list after he gave her a bit

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    OFF THE RECORD - Capital punishment

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    In what must surely rank as one of the most desperate (surely ground-breaking? Ed) marketing ploys of the new millennium, Capital Radio has hired 40 London cab drivers to drone on

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    OFF THE RECORD - Salmon floats like a butterfly

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    Readers who missed the BBC's Sports Personality of the Century must be kicking themselves, for this was public service broadcasting at its best.Not only that, but as The Sun showed us

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    OFF THE RECORD - Triumph communicates

    1999-12-17T00:00:00Z

    OTR's John Birt award for plain speaking goes to the good people of TV news agency APTN. The chaps at Associated Press really came up trumps with a release hailing a

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    Celebrity statement

    1999-12-16T18:37:00Z

    What a life!!!

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    Sambrook becomes BBC News deputy

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    BBC News head of newsgathering Richard Sambrook has been named the directorate's new deputy chief executive, replacing Richard Ayre who retires this month, writes Tara Conlan.BBC News chief executive Tony Hall

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    TWI convergence venture launched

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    TWI is preparing to launch what sources claim is the world's first fully converged broadcast and broadband service.The venture, backed by a multi-million dollar investment by Pacific Century Group (PCG), whose

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    ICG to get caretaker chief before Xmas

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    The BBC will appoint a caretaker chief at the Independent Commissioning Group (ICG) before Christmas to oversee the department until its expected restructure next year, writes Tim Dams.ICG head of factual

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    Government prepares digital windfall for broadcasters

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    Broadcasters and independent producers could benefit from a wave of government contracts for digital television initiatives following a Cabinet Office initiative to use DTV to deliver government services, writes Lucy Rouse.In

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    Elliott stars in Archer libel drama

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    ITV controller of drama Nick Elliott came out from behind the camera this week to take centre stage in the Jeffrey Archer libel saga, writes Jason Deans.It emerged on Tuesday (7

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    CHANNEL X TO MAKE DAVE SAINT SHOW FOR UK PLAY

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    UK Play, the UKTV music and comedy channel, has commissioned Channel X to produce The Dave Saint Show, a new 13 x 30-minute series starring John Thomson (The Fast Show, Cold

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    ABC ORDERS GRANADA USA'S CLEESE SITCOM PILOT

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    US network ABC has ordered a pilot of a Granada Entertainment USA (GEU) sitcom, based on a treatment by John Cleese and Granada Media International head of comedy development Humphrey Barclay.

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    RAPTURE COVERS DJ'S NEW YEAR'S EVE GIGS

    1999-12-10T00:00:00Z

    Youth channel Rapture TV is to make a five-part documentary about BBC Radio 1 DJ Carl Cox's attempt to play two separate performances in Sydney and Honolulu on New Year's Eve.