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    WRIGHT STUFF BACK

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Channel 5 is retaining the title and presenter of its morning talkshow The Wright Stuff when it returns to the channel next month. The show will be produced by Princess Productions,

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    GWR SELLS LICENCES

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Speculation is mounting that cash-strapped GWR is about to sell its remaining six AM Classic Gold licences to UBC Media. Sources said a deal was expected at the end of this

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    BROWN DEPARTS YTV

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Yorkshire TV executive producer, entertainment Jim Brown has left the company following Granada's decision to focus its entertainment output in London and Manchester. Brown's departure follows a string of setbacks including

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    WEAKEST LINK CHINA

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Weakest Link is set to be screened in China from February following a deal between UK-based distributor ECM and advertising company MindWorks. MindWorks plans to produce a Mandarin version of the

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    TALKBACK RESHUFFLE

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Talkback Productions has restructured its senior management team, handing managing director Peter Fincham the new title of chief executive. Sally Debonnaire has been promoted to managing director, while head of factual

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    TWI to launch European sport channel

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Indie TWI is ramping up its production base in London to service the launch of an archive-based, pan-European sports channel with US broadcaster ESPN, writes Steve Aston.

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    Lord Ryder is picked as BBC vice-chairman

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The Government has appointed former Tory chief whip Lord Ryder of Wensum as vice-chairman of the BBC in a move that will offer some solace to critics of the corporation's Labour-supporting chairman Gavyn Davies, writes David Rose.

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    RATINGS - Viewers warmed to Cold Feet down under

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Sunshine frolics in Sydney Harbour from the cast of Cold Feet proved more of a pull than the maverick musings of Judge John Deed this week, writes Ellie White.

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    PRE-SCHOOL SHORTLIST

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The BBC is to wait until after Christmas to announce who has won the huge new pre-school commission that will replace the Teletubbies. The corporation has decided that the schedule was

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    ITC RAPS C5 CRASH DOC

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The Independent Television Commission has rapped Channel 5 over its documentary about road traffic accidents, which included an incorrect voiceover claiming that a hospitalised motorcyclist 'would never walk again'. The regulator

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    BBC WOMEN GET GONGS

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    BBC Newsnight editor Sian Kevill has won a Carlton Women in Film & Television award for her contribution to news and current affairs. Kevill, who is overseeing a major review of

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    NTL SHEDS MORE JOBS

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    NTL has announced a new series of cost-cutting measures including a redundancy programme which will see a further 2,000 jobs axed. The cuts, which follow plans to cut another 2,000 jobs,

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    INTERACTIVE PROMOTION

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Channel 4 interactive chief operating officer Peter Pedersen has been promoted to chief technology officer for 4 Ventures, following last month's creation of the digital services group. Working alongside head of

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    HEART APPOINTMENT

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Chrysalis Radio has appointed Radio Investments southern group programme director Mark Browning as deputy programme director of Heart 106.2. Browning joins next month and will report to programme director Francis Currie.

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    RADIO ACADEMY SPEECH

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The Radio Academy has announced the Guardian Media Group Lecture at next year's Radio Festival will be given by Clear Channel Communications chairman and chief executive Lowry Mays. The festival will

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    RTL/TEAMTALK DEAL DONE

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    TeamTalk Media Group has finalised its deal with RTL to buy 80 per cent of Atlantic 252.Talks between the two groups were finalised last Tuesday (4 December) for the£2m stake

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    BBC makes strong showing in shortlist

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    The Blue Planet, My Family and Banzai are all on the shortlist for Broadcast's best new programme award this year, and, for the first time, readers are being asked to vote

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    CREATIVE - News in brief

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Hobbins Sides has developed the on-air identity and graphic design package for new digital television channel Thomas Cook TV. Working closely with the in-house graphics team at Enteraction.tv, the channel's producer,

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    BBC 2 RELEASES WINTER SCHEDULE

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Hard-hitting topical drama forms the backbone of BBC 2's£77m Christmas and winter programming line-up. New programmes include Smallpox 2002 - 'a ground-breaking fusion of current affairs, documentary and drama' -

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    TECHNOLOGY & FACILITIES - CINTEL PROMOTES WELSH

    2001-12-14T00:00:00Z

    Cintel has promoted Adam Welsh, who has been with the company for 18 years, to become its managing director. Welsh, a former president of Cintel's US business, will help oversee the