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    Trade Talk - Worth nicking

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    LNN's Nick Atkins is off to On Digital with his wicked sense of humour. But for some reason he's not smiling. Tara Conlan investigates.

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    Trade Talk - Sarah Thane

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    On the need to redefine the role of public service broadcasting in the interests of a national majority.

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    News Analysis - Living with the enemy

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Cooperation between television producers and newspapers is reaching unprecedented heights with the new breed of survivor programmes. Simon Ellery asks if TV can keep the upper hand.

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    Opinion - ITV should stick to its schedule

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    What a sorry tale the News at Ten row is turning into. The ITC appears to have seized on the issue as a way of justifying its future in the regulatory

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    Opinion - Free to air

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Just occasionally, there comes a time when you're slightly ashamed of your profession. Over the past three weeks, the often less-than-salubrious end of the print profession has been putting the collective

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    BBC Radio - Calm after a storm

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    As BBC TV prepares to transform into genre-based channels, it would do well to take a leaf out of radio's book. To the ire of commercial players, the five stations have been in a state of flux for years.

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    Independent Radio Producers - Raising common concern

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    As the BBC looks to strengthen its in-house radio production, indies fear for their future. The explosion of delivery platforms, together with knotty rights issues, makes the need for a trade body more compelling.

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    Interview - Turning the tables

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Besides overseeing an ever expanding analogue and digital radio empire at GWR, Steve Orchard is a vociferous advocate for the industry's regulatory turnaround and, judging by his colleagues' awe, he will be listened to.

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    RATINGS - TX - The Secret Life of the Bentall Family

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Broadcaster: BBC 1Producer: BBC scienceStart: 20.00, 5 JulyLength: 50 minutes, Commissioning editor: Peter SalmonExecutive producer: Michael MosleyThe arcane mysteries of science are given a mainstream spin in BBC 1's The Secret

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    PRESS GANG

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    No matter how frantically busy today's TV types get, somehow they can always find time to give themselves a plug in the papers. We round up their latest inky musings so you don't have to bother ...

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    And Finally ..

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Stuart Thomas, editor of LBC and part-time insomniac, reveals a passion for sausages and daytime TV ...

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    The occasional diary of a BBC director general

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    WEDNESDAYBunch of interfering old biddies. So the governors reckon Beeb One has to do better, do they? They said that last year. Trouble is, two things have changed. I couldn't have

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    Off the Record - Executive straining

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Clearly you need to be able to do two jobs to survive the knife at the BBC these days. Take BBC TV head of comedy Geoffrey Perkins, for instance.As well as

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    Off the Record - The Docho to flay

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    Another advocate of the multi-career approach is the BBC's outgoing deputy director of television and new services David Docherty. As keen Off The Record readers will know, last year he managed

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    Off the Record - PJ blips

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    And while on the subject of great literature, one thing we forgot to mention last week in our hilarious story about BBC economics editor Peter Jay's new series The Road to

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    Off the Record - Poopy trap

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    ITV's rival to MacIntyre Undercover Hoaxbusters kicks off this week with an investigation into the tricks of the conman's trade. The United show also reveals just how easily duped the British

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    Off the Record - Cost of commerce

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    OTR's Order of the Brown Nose goes to the radio reviewer of The Times for his efforts last week in currying favour in the Murdoch empire. Last Wednesday's Times review of

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    Off the Record - Wild wild Westcountry

    1999-06-30T00:00:00Z

    There have been comings and goings and 'appenings of late down at Westcountry Television - or Carlton West as it is more popularly known these days.The Plymouth broadcaster recently settled out

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    Guardian launches radio outfit

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    The Guardian Media Group (GMG) is planning a major assault on the UK radio market and has hired former Border Radio Holdings chief John Myers to mastermind the drive.GMG chief executive

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    Yentob spearheads BBC 1 health check

    1999-06-25T00:00:00Z

    BBC Broadcast director of television Alan Yentob has been charged with leading a review of the entire BBC 1 schedule, following concerns that the main channel is straying from its public