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MIM to record play extracts
Radio and TV indie Made in Manchester (MIM) will turn extracts from plays by 16 new writers into radio mini-dramas after winning a marketing, PR and new media contract for Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival.
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REM to play Q Radio launch
REM will launch Bauer's music station Q Radio with an exclusive show featuring 15 tracks picked by them.
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Composer Goodall joins Classic FM
Classic FM has hired award-winning TV theme composer and broadcaster Howard Goodall to host his own themed Saturday afternoon show.
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NewsVirgin Radio revamps Classic Rock station
Virgin Radio Classic Rock launches a brand new weekly strand featuring the biggest rock legends this week, as part of a major station revamp intended to stamp the station's authority on the genre.
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NewsLyons: Publicly-funded C4 would be 'BBC5'
Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, has attacked proposals to publicly-fund Channel 4 - warning that such a move would simply reduce it to “BBC5”.
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NewsWho fans told to get knitted
Civil rights advocates the Open Rights Group is pressing the BBC to be more flexible in allowing the public to “remix” its content for non-commercial ends after the broadcaster forced a Doctor Who fan to stop distributing knitting patterns based on the show's characters.
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Sony's new camcorder flies off the shelves
Sony has sold more than 500 units of the new PMW-EX3 camcorder in the first month since its launch.
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NewsUBC commercial arm sale was ‘irresistible'
UBC Media agreed to sell its commercial arm to Nasdaq-listed Global Traffic Network (GNET) last week because it was “an irresistible commercial proposition” which valued the division at£3m more than the entire company.
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NewsBrits provide state of the art kit for Moscow
Manchester United and Chelsea won't be the only English participants in next week's Champions League finals, as key Sky Sports personnel and Staines-based outside broadcast company NEP Visions will be providing the host feed from Moscow.
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NewsVirgin scolded over 'misleading' ad
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a complaint from BSkyB over a 'misleading' national advert run by Virgin Media.
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Spain launch for KidsCo
KidsCo, the London-based joint-venture channel owned by NBC Universal, DIC Entertainment and Corus Entertainment Inc, has launched in Spain via local operator Teuve.
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Belgium deal for CBBC
CBBC in-house production has signed a distribution deal with Studio100 Media NV & Co, a subsidiary of Belgium's Studio100, for hit shows and formats The Slammer, Trapped and Beat the Boss.
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All3Media eyed by NBC
All3Media has been approached about a takeover by US studio NBC Universal.
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No go for US versions of Spaced and NY-LON
Plans to produce American versions of cult Channel 4 comedy Spaced and transatlantic drama NY-LON have been axed amid this week's pick-ups by US networks.
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NewsFremantle wins Thompson TV deal
Acclaimed film producer David Thompson has signed a first-look TV development deal with Fremantle Media Enterprises and has a slate of six new projects.
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NewsF Word ratings simmer
Viewers haven't yet tired of Gordon Ramsay's F Word but the start of the fourth series failed to reach the heights of last year with 2.5m (10.7%) watching at 9pm while a further 375,000 tuned in to C4+1 at 10pm.
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NewsSkins rapped for teen orgy ad
An ad for Skins depicting a teenage orgy breached taste and decency guidelines, the Advertising Standards Authority has ruled.
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NewsBig Brother exec promoted
Endemol UK has promoted two of its heads of production into senior roles.
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NewsTV critics 14 May '08
'... gratuitously ill-mannered, chaotically assembled and obsessed with celebrity.' Read on for the critics' full verdict on last night's TV.
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NewsIannucci and Oliver head festival line-up
Armando Iannucci and Jamie Oliver are among the industry luminaries headlining the 34th MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.