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OPINION - Free to air Emily Bell
The merger of Carlton and United News & Media is a bit like Chris Evans and Geri Halliwell's romance: conceived out of a strategic desire to do something other than just
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REGIONAL PROGRAMMING - No news is good news?
It has been a bad year for local news on ITV. Peter Keighron asks if the network has turned its back on regional bulletins in the obsessive search for peaktime success.
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REGIONAL PROGRAMMING - Local colour
After a year of parliamentary devolution, Diane Freeman says the time is right for broadcasters to get serious about their commitments to spread production across the regions.
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DIGITAL RATINGS - The digital watch
The advent of digital TV is proving a headache for ratings board Barb - just how do you measure what the likes of Jim Royle are watching when there are more than 200 channels to choose from? Martin Jackson reports.
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INTERVIEW - Will's testament
With his retirement imminent, BBC Broadcast's long-serving chief executive Will Wyatt at last feels free to speak his mind. He looks back on the years of Birtist reform and outlines his vision of BBC distinctiveness.
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OFF THE RECORD - Vintage venue
Picking the right venue for a winter programme launch is a tricky business. Just where can you find a stylish venue that gives the right impression, with good acoustics and top-quality
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OFF THE RECORD - Picking Berry
Congratulations to Bafta boss Amanda Berry (below) who, instead of handing out gongs, was awarded one last week. La Berry has been named 'media boss of the year' in a new
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OFF THE RECORD - Mayfair set (up)
Off The Record was honoured to bump into none other than Sir John Birt himself at Broadcast's 40th Birthday at the luxurious Mayfair Club in, er, Mayfair. But the Birtster, arriving
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OFF THE RECORD - Fortress Beeb
Donal MacIntyre, the BBC's fearless star of current affairs series MacIntrye Undercover, has a reputation for getting into difficult places such as model agencies, care homes and rings of soccer hooligans.
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OFF THE RECORD - No tab from The Lab
The reality of digital television has hit home for LWT production unit The Lab - makers of On Digital's German footie show Don't Mention the Score, featuring live Bundesliga matches. Seems
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OFF THE RECORD - Miss World stonewalled
Channel 5's Miss World 2000 beauty contest has suffered a major setback - the UK's gay and lesbian internet site rainbownetwork.com has refused to advertise the show. OTR can't understand it
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Moore named UK Play channel editor
UKTV has named Myfanwy Moore as the new channel editor of its music and comedy channel, UK Play, writes Tim Dams.Currently BBC entertainment editor of new comedy and entertainment, Moore joins
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Parsons sues de Mol over Survive!
Former Planet 24 boss Charlie Parsons is suing Endemol and its subsidiary.John de Mol Productions, seeking multi-million dollar damages for format theft.The legal wrangle centres on two shows - Survive! devised
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Radio indies go solo as trade body closes
Radio indies trade association Radio is to be wound up at the end of this year because a successor cannot be found to incumbent chairman Ian Willox, writes John Plunkett.The organisation,
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Eurosport mulls over sports news launch
Pan-European sports channel Eurosport is considering launching a sports news channel to rival BSkyB's fledgling service, Sky Sports News, writes John Plunkett.Sources said this week that Eurosport, a three-way venture between
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Berriff quits Granada TV to hook up with United
Award-winning documentary-maker Paul Berriff is leaving Granada Television to join the growing team of factual heavyweights at United Productions assembled by chief executive John Willis, writes David Wood.United's factual department already
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RICHMOND PRODUCES CONLEY COMEDY DRAMA PILOT FOR ITV
Independent Richmond Films & Television is producing a one-hour comedy drama pilot starring Brian Conley for ITV. Provisionally entitled Privates, the pilot features Conley (left) as a former policeman who runs
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SKY ONE STAGES SPICE GIRLS LONDON CONCERT
Sky One is to broadcast a series of live concerts beginning with the Spice Girls on 14 December. Spice Girls: The Live One, will air live from Earls Court at 20.00
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TYRO BEGINS WORK ON SEQUEL TO IMOGEN'S FACE
Production started in London this week on 1 x 100-minute ITV drama Pretending to be Judith, a sequel to Imogen's Face, which is being produced by independent Tyro Productions. The single
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C5 AND HOOCH JOIN FORCES FOR MILLENNIUM SHORTS ..
Channel 5 has joined forces with Hooch to fund, produce and screen 20 x 90-second short films, aimed at inspiring viewers in their late 20s and 30s about the millennium. Under