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BBC Choice has picked up its first commission for BBC 1 - a documentary about the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry, girl band Precious (above), writes Colin Grimshaw. The 1 x
BBC Choice has picked up its first commission for BBC 1 - a documentary about the UK's Eurovision Song Contest entry, girl band Precious (above), writes Colin Grimshaw. The 1 x
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BBC will bolster Production
BBC Production chief executive Matthew Bannister is to recruit senior development executives to manage the directorate's relationship with TV and radio channel controllers, writes Jason Deans.Bannister, speaking to Production staff last
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FilmFour to get more original shows
Channel 4 announced this week that it is upping the amount of original programming on pay-TV channel FilmFour, writes Ashley Davies.The news came as C4 revealed that FilmFour general manager John
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FAITH FINANCIAL CHANNEL AIMS FOR NOVEMBER LAUNCH
Pop star-turned-actor-turned-financier Adam Faith has floated his planned TV station, The Money Channel, raising just over£6.5 million on the Alternative Investment Market. The channel, now valued at just over£9
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ITC UPHOLDS COMPLAINT ABOUT SKY'S FOREIGNERS
The Independent Television Commission has upheld a complaint against Sky One's Bloody Foreigners, broadcast on 2 March at 22.00. Sexual intercourse had appeared on a TV set in the background during
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SKY BAGS FIVE-YEAR GOLF DEAL WITH US OPEN
Sky Sports has beaten off competition to renew the exclusive live rights to the US Open Championship. Under the terms of the contract, negotiated by Sky Sports managing director Vic Wakeling
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EUROBELL ASKS ITC TO LOOK INTO SKY TELEPHONY OFFER
UK cable operator Eurobell has asked the Independent Television Commission to investigate BSkyB's offer of cheap telephony for its digital customers. Eurobell has asked the regulator to examine whether the satellite
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ITV TO AIR MILLENNIUM ANIMATION FROM OCTOBER
The Millennium Dome organisers and the ITV Network Centre have given the go ahead to 13 x 15-minute animation series Timekeepers of the Millennium (right). As revealed in Broadcast (2.4.99), ITV
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BECTU TO HOLD SEMINARS ON RADIO ISSUES
Trade union Bectu has announced a day of radio seminars to take place next Thursday (27 May), including a demonstration of digital radio. Issues of copyright, contracts and qualifications will also
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TEST TRANSMISSIONS START FOR GALAXY IN NORTH-EAST
Chrysalis Radio Group is to launch the latest arm of its Galaxy FM network of dance stations in north-east England on 1 June. Chrysalis, which beat off 14 rivals to win
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RADIO INVESTMENTS SNAPS UP RADIO SERVICES
Radio Investments Ltd (RIL), in which the Guardian Media Group holds a 28 per cent stake, has acquired Radio Services for an undisclosed sum. Radio Services was formed in 1995 and
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QVC UK MOVES INTO PROFIT
QVC UK went into profit for the first time in 1998 with a net profit of£12.5 million, against a loss of£228,000 the previous year. In the 12 months to
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TALKCO SIGNS MAC JUNIOR
Talk Radio parent company Talkco has appointed Ashley MacKenzie, son of chief executive Kelvin MacKenzie, to the new role of commercial director (sport). MacKenzie, who is general manager of Talkco's sports
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INSTITUTE SIGNS UP WYATT
BBC Broadcast chief executive Will Wyatt has been appointed chairman of the London Institute from October. The institute embraces Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martin's College of Art & Design,
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RTS COUNCIL ELECTS JONES
S4C chief executive Huw Jones has been elected to the Council of the Royal Television Society (RTS). The move comes three months after he was awarded the RTS Fellowship.
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GARDNER THANKSGIVING
A thanksgiving service for broadcaster and journalist Andrew Gardner will be held at the Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London W1 on Monday 14 June at 17.00. Those wishing
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Axel Springer eyes UK independents
German media giant Alex Springer Verlag is hitting the British TV acquisition trail and is prepared to spend a sizeable amount of its£1 billion UK cross-media acquisition war chest on
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R4 launches themed night for moon landing
Indie Testbed Productions has been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to make a night of programmes to mark the 30th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, writes John Plunkett.The theme
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Marchant makes BBC film debut
Holding On writer Tony Marchant is to make his BBC feature film debut with a new project about a married male escort who falls in love with one of his clients,
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Watchmaker attacks with Allied Forces
Watchmaker Productions has set up a subsidiary, Allied Forces, to make low-cost programming drawing on talent from outside mainstream TV, writes Jason Deans.Allied Forces is being headed by Watchmaker producer Jacques