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OPINION - Granada ups the stakes in digital
Could Granada take over ITV? It's an old question, but is lent new weight as Network Centre's pronouncements over strategy and Granada's own musings on the future of its TV business
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INDIE BUSINESS - The money programme
As fully funded commissions come to an end, some independent producers are turning their attention to new forms of deficit funding. Jason Deans examines the options and asks how they might bring long-term benefits to indies.
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Commercial secrets
The advertising industry has been berated for using ideas from television production as their own but could programme-makers benefit from watching ads and borrowing some of that world's innovative visual techniques?
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INTERVIEW - Learning his ABC
If Michael Davies is not yet a key player in US TV, he soon will be. That's the verdict on the Londoner whose huge success at ABC with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? could open Hollywood's doors to other UK producers.
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OFF THE RECORD - Bland banquet
Off The Record was disappointed not to be invited to the Queen's Royal banquet at Buckingham Palace in honour of Chinese president Jiang Zemin last week. Perhaps the invite got lost
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OFF THE RECORD - On the Oche
Kelvin MacKenzie is on the move. No, not from Talk Radio, silly, but to a new HQ for his burgeoning radio empire, which we understand is upping ship from Oxford Street
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OFF THE RECORD - Nerd news
Scoop of the week goes to the good people of ITN and their Saturday evening news bulletin for ITV, which reported that thousands of people all over the world are following
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OFF THE RECORD - Live Scrooge
Poor old Live TV (and OTR never thought it would say that). As if all that NTL takeover business weren't bad enough, the poor loves are also set to have to
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OFF THE RECORD - In the swim
Channel 4's policy of special briefings for its favourite indies had unforeseen consequences at last weekend's Sheffield International Documentary Festival. The sudden appearance of a posse of top C4 execs prompted
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OFF THE RECORD - Royle plug
Strange to find one of the BBC's current crop of hits, The Royle Family, spending time promoting ITV. Last week the armchair-bound Jim Royle spent almost an entire show extolling the
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OFF THE RECORD - Mitch Bitch
And so to last week's Bafta Interactive Entertainment Awards, where CNN was in feisty mood. Miffed at rivals BBC News Online walking away with the news award for the second time,